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"He is a business-man, you know, and can not keep such late hours." "But does he go without breakfast?" "No takes it at seven, instead of nine, like our lazy selves." "He used to breakfast at a restaurant down town, like other business-men," further explained Aunt Helen, observing the bewildered look of this novice in city-life.
It is therefore significant that the earliest pastoral poetry with which we are acquainted, whatever half articulate experiments may have preceded it, was itself directly born of the contrast between the recollections of a childhood spent among the Sicilian uplands and the crowded social and intellectual city-life of Alexandria .
Add to this the progress of popular instruction, of industrial arts and habits, of wealth and city-life, then we can easily see that neither the keenest cuts of samurai's sword nor the sharpest shafts shot from Bushido's boldest bows can aught avail.
If it is so there is wide suffering deep, for it, must be silent. Cornelia suggests one comfort for them that they will think less of poverty. "Why was Brookfield ever bought? Our old peaceful City-life the vacant Sundays! my ears are haunted by their bells for Evening Service. I said 'There they go, the dowdy population of heaven! I remember it now.
"Why, Sary, since I left Denver, my friends all have shades in the windows that run up and down on springs without any other help. They go by themselves." "Now, Miss Brewster! Do you believe that fairy-tale?" quizzed Sary, looking keenly at her mistress to see if she was trying to laugh at her ignorance of city-life. "It is a fact, Sary not a fairy-tale.
In the social elements of a water-excursion-party may be found the "all sorts" of a particular kind of city-life, the good of it and the bad of it, with a dash of something that is very low.
Miss Bea was a stalwart, corn-colored, laughing young woman, and she was bored by farm-work. She desired the excitements of city-life, and the way to enjoy city-life was, she had decided, to "go get a yob as hired girl in Gopher Prairie." She contentedly lugged her pasteboard telescope from the station to her cousin, Tina Malmquist, maid of all work in the residence of Mrs. Luke Dawson.
Indeed in Babylonian or Assyrian the language of the Semitic inhabitants of Babylonia and Assyria the word which signified "tent" was adopted to express the idea of "city" when the tent had been exchanged for city-life. In Canaan, on the other hand, the Sumerian word itself was adopted in a Semitic form, 'Ir, 'ar, or uru, "city," was originally the Sumerian eri.
I was quite impatient to get off myself, for a city-life had become dull and tame, and we were all anxious to get into the pine-woods again, free from the importunities of rebel women asking for protection, and of the civilians from the North who were coming to Savannah for cotton and all sorts of profit.
As the farms of the old Puritans of Massachusetts and Connecticut are gradually but surely passing into the hands of the Irish, because the sons and grandsons of the old New-England farmer prefer the uncertainties and excitements of a demoralized city-life to laborious and honest work, so the possessions of the Romans passed into the hands of German barbarians, who were strong and healthy and religious.
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