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One night while holding an outdoor meeting on the Bowery at Bleecker Street, I was speaking along the line of drink and the terrible curse it was, how it made men brutes and all that was mean, telling about the prodigal and how God saved him and would save to the uttermost. There were quite a number of men around listening.
The curse with him follows all too swiftly on the blessing of enjoyment and lasts longer. And in matters of love, the artistic temperament is a doubtful blessing.
Were the poor in London in the days of the Edwards as well off as our niggers are to-day?" The Judge snorted. "A divine institution!" he shouted. "A black curse! Because the world has been a wicked place of oppression since Noah's day, is that any reason why it should so continue until the day of Judgment?" The Colonel smiled, which was a sign that he was pleased with his argument.
Here's excellent meat, taste of this ragout. Come, I'll help you, come eat, and let old quarrels be forgotten. "D. JOHN. We are too much confirmed curse on this dry discourse. Come, here's to your mistress, you had one when you were living: not forgetting your sweet sister. "D. JOHN. Are these some of your retinue? Devils, say you?
One night he dreamed; he dreamed that Conniston came to his bedside and wakened him, and that after wakening him he taunted him in ghoulish glee and told him that in bequeathing him a sister he had given unto him forever and forever the curse of the daughters of Achelous. And Keith, waking in the dark hour of night, knew in his despair that it was so.
For all flesh hath corrupted itself on the face of the earth, but the Saints shall possess a purified land, upon which there shall be no curse when the Lord cometh. Then shall the heavens open " He broke off, for the girl came leading in the son, who, as soon as he saw the white-haired old man with his open book, sitting beside the wasted woman on the bed, flew to them with a glad cry.
The result may be that we shall not change our inbred views, nor cease to dissent from those who advocate slavery as a necessary means of civilization in its highest forms; but we shall certainly differ from those who declare it to be, practically, an unmitigated curse to all concerned.
For all we know the whole planet is up and after us already. In a minute we may hear them whimpering, and their gongs going. What are we to do? Where are we to go? Here we are as comfortable as snakes from Jamrach's loose in a Surbiton villa!" "It was your fault," said Cavor. "My fault!" I shouted. "Good Lord!" "I had an idea!" "Curse your ideas!" "If we had refused to budge "
"A quarter of an hour, perhaps." "Something has happened!" cried Genevieve, and added more, maybe, but I waited not to hear. Muttering curses as I ran for 't was my way to curse where pious souls might pray I sped back to the quadrangle and my horse. "Follow me," I shouted to the groom, "you and as many of your fellows as you can find.
The Dewan rolled his bulbous eyes despairingly: "If Sindhia would send ten camel loads of gold to this accursed Musselman, we could sleep in peace," he declared. "If it were a woman Sindhia would," Nana Sahib sneered. Baptiste laughed. "It is a wisdom, Prince, for that is where the revenue goes: women are a curse in the affairs of men," the Dewan commented.
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