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It is not surprising that the degree of difficulty in uniting two species, and the degree of sterility of their hybrid offspring, should generally correspond, though due to distinct causes; for both depend on the amount of difference of some kind between the species which are crossed.
He went away to change his clothes, and then stepped into Angela's room. "I'm going to walk with Suzanne," he said dominantly, when he was ready. "All right," said Angela, who was so tired she could have fainted. "Will you be back for dinner?" "I don't know," he replied. "What difference does it make?" "Only this: that the maid and cook need not stay unless you are coming. I want nothing."
The only important difference, I think, is, that men are generally duller and more conceited than women. The conceit is easily accounted for. The English boy is told from childhood, as the negro boy is, that men are superior to women. The negro boy shows his assent to the proposition by beating his mother, the English one by talking down his sisters. That is all.
There is no great structural difference between the white man and the Negro, and yet there is something so singularly different in the constitution of the two, that the malarias of that country, which do not hurt the black at all, cut off and destroy the white.
The sudden splendour of action is no longer theirs, and if we would know the loss implied in that difference, let us imagine that Tolstoy had died before the summer of 1908, when he uttered his overwhelming protest against the political massacres ordained by Russia.
They were a young pair; for, as I have said, he was in his nineteenth, and she in her seventeenth year a handsome pair, too, and more alike than one would have supposed from the difference of their birth.
'There's some difference, says Robin, 'between desiring me to explain it, and telling me she did not believe it. 'Well, but, son, says the old lady, 'if you are disposed to let us into the mystery of it, what were these hard conditions? 'Yes, madam, says Robin, 'I had done it before now, if the teasers here had not worried my by way of interruption.
But I will sanction no such character as yours; the world shall know that I feel the difference between right and wrong. If you are in want, I will provide for you; let my mother know. But you shall not come under my roof. It is enough that I have to bear the thought of your disgrace; the sight of you is hateful to me." Slowly Maggie was turning away with despair in her heart.
Bertram set off for , and Miss Crawford was prepared to find a great chasm in their society, and to miss him decidedly in the meetings which were now becoming almost daily between the families; and on their all dining together at the Park soon after his going, she retook her chosen place near the bottom of the table, fully expecting to feel a most melancholy difference in the change of masters.
'Get over it! she repeated lamely. 'Can you? Have you? He pinned her to a direct answer. She did not flinch. 'No, she said. 'I thought you would have done, he remarked, half to himself. 'I thought you would. I thought you were enough a woman of the world for that, May. It isn't as if the confounded thing had made any real difference to your father. The old man died, and
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