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"It is a devil; may it be cursed!" cried Herr Hippe, passionately. "It is a demon that stole from me my son, the finest youth in all Courland. Yes! my son, the son of the Waywode Balthazar, Grand Duke of Lower Egypt, died raving in a gutter, with an empty brandy-bottle in his hands. Were it not that the plant is a sacred one to our race, I would curse the grape and the vine that bore it."
I was engaged in her support, and at the first rehearsal I recollect saying to my dear old friend, Arthur Moseby dead, alas, these many years. An excellent juvenile, but, like so many good fellows, cursed with a tendency to lift the elbow I recollect saying to him 'Arthur, dear boy, I give it two weeks. 'Max, was his reply, 'you are an incurable optimist.
He wished he had not accepted her challenge. If he had refused to follow, she would soon have abandoned her absurd flight through the darkness. It was absurd. They had both been absurd to come to this eerie place without a light. Somehow her disappearance, the clanging of that door, had sobered him very effectually. He cursed himself for a fool as he groped his way upwards.
How long before this leg is done? Perhaps an hour, sir. Oh, Life. Here I am, proud as Greek god, and yet standing debtor to this blockhead for a bone to stand on! Cursed be that mortal inter-indebtedness which will not do away with ledgers. I would be free as air; and I'm down in the whole world's books. By heavens!
I am more and more struck with the native good sense of one of that family, and more and more disgusted with the manner in which it is obscured and perverted: cursed effects of fashionable education! of which both sexes are the advocates, and yours eminently the victims.
"Go out from here, you wicked crowd," cried Sylvestre Ker, sweeping around with a broom of holly branches. "What are you doing here? Go outside, cursed spirits, damned souls go, go!" From all the corners of the room came laughter; Matheline seemed everywhere.
It was about a humorous lecturer who flooded an ignorant audience with the killingest jokes for an hour and never got a laugh; and then when he was leaving, some gray simpletons wrung him gratefully by the hand and said it had been the funniest thing they had ever heard, and "it was all they could do to keep from laughin' right out in meetin'." That anecdote never saw the day that it was worth the telling; and yet I had sat under the telling of it hundreds and thousands and millions and billions of times, and cried and cursed all the way through.
But he cursed, flinging the chair from him, rumbling out his wrath, beyond the bounds of reason. "Don't talk so," she implored and slid off the sofa to her feet. "They'll hear you in the next room. I can't afford to let this get around." For the first time in her knowledge of him he was deaf to the claims of her welfare. "Who is this fancy gentleman?" he cried. "Where is he?"
The mate used to beat us, and it's a wonder we didn't kill him. We used to lie awake in our watch below and think of what we'd do to him when we got him ashore. All the men were sore on him. He cursed us all the time, and the captain said nothing. You can't hit back, you know. He would strike us and kick us for fun.
She weeps because she has betrayed her love, Eric Brighteyes, my son, and is about to be sold in marriage to be sold to thee, Ospakar Blacktooth, like a heifer at a fair." Then Björn grew angry and cursed Saevuna, nor did Ospakar spare to add his ill words. But the old dame sat in her chair, listening silently till all their curses were spent.
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