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"'Yes, said another voice, 'they're dead enough. They've cheated us after all. Not that I complain of that. But, my eye, sir; what a sell! Think of all those Tommies and that machine gun. Ha! ha! Oh! Lord! I suppose the beggars poisoned themselves when they saw the game was up. He laughed again and the laugh ended in a fit of coughing. "'Not they, Sergeant, said the other.
Indeed, it's not our business to complain, but Posterity's; for fine intentions are really rich possessions, but they don't leave grand legacies; that is all. They mean to possess the future: they are only the voluptuous sons of the present.
You may credit as much or as little of that as you please; but I believe the bulk of it. In any case, since it does the trick for us we have no reason to complain. Come now!" "I'm not going to complain of anything. It's been a rum experience all through, but I can't say that, in certain aspects, I haven't enjoyed it. I have enjoyed it.
It was indiscreet, but it was entirely human. Your daughter does not complain she understands." At the mention of his daughter in this connection Butler flushed with rage and shame, but he controlled himself. "And ye think because she doesn't complain that it's all right, do ye?" he asked, sarcastically. "From my point of view, yes; from yours no. You have one view of life, Mr.
True enough, but there is no end of wonders that can be wrought by the exercise of the human will. "We all sorely complain," says Seneca, "of the shortness of time. And yet we have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing that we ought to do.
If indeed she submits to it merely to be maintained in idleness, she has no right to complain bitterly of her fate; or to act, as a person of independent character might, as if she had a title to disregard general rules. "But the misfortune is, that many women only submit in appearance, and forfeit their own respect to secure their reputation in the world.
You have insulted her in public, and in the name of decency " "Oh, no!" interrupted my uncle; "you are exaggerating! In the first place, my nephew and I were the only persons present; therefore there was no very great harm done. Then you brought the people up by your shouting; consequently it is I who have cause to complain." "Té!
No remedy lies against the authors of these vexations, and the sufferer who is prudent fears even to complain.
Being his own master, he decided not to overwork himself, and in fact worked only enough to make his board. He was continually grumbling over his bad luck, although Joshua told him plainly that it wasn't luck, but industry, he lacked. "If you'd work like we do," said Bickford, "you wouldn't need to complain. Your claim is just as good as ours, as far as we can tell."
Our trade keeps up, sir. We are the same as when you left, sir. We do not complain." Patricia laughed at Judith's expression, as she watched François whisk away to the dumb-waiter in the far corner of the little apartment, and roar stentorian commands in indistinguishable French to an unseen source of supply below.
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