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But I took courage and went on. Soon, however, I became again anxious, though from another cause. I had eaten nothing that day, and for an hour past had been feeling the want of food. So I grew afraid lest I should find nothing to meet my human necessities in this strange place; but once more I comforted myself with hope and went on.
And this does not take any account of the amount caught and eaten by private residents around the Lake, by the visitors or by the hotels. The fish that are to be shipped are not, as one might naturally suppose, packed in ice. Experience has demonstrated a better way which is now universally followed.
We might agree beforehand on the points the editorial was to touch, and so make one hand wash another. See?" "I see that journalism has eaten into your soul. What is your subject?" "Well, in general terms, and in a single word, Complicity. Don't you think that would be rather taking? 'Mr. Sewell, in his striking sermon on Complicity, and so forth.
What would the farmer do with all the insects that destroy his grain, if many of them were not eaten by little birds; and how much of his fruit would these very birds destroy, if they, too, were not eaten by hawks! If animals did not destroy each other, they would soon become so numerous as to crowd man from the earth."
It was the endurance of his mind that kept him going. He had not eaten in forty hours, and he was weak with hunger. The repeated drenchings in the icy water had likewise had their effect on him. His handsome coat was draggled. The broad pads of his feet were bruised and bleeding. He had begun to limp, and this limp increased with the hours.
For after they had eaten and methodically packed away the food, and while they were lying around the cheerful glow of their little campfire, misfortune stole up out of the darkness unaware.
A Cause was put out into the world, and, old or young, sick or sound, knowing or unknowing, who can rein in the effect of that Cause? Does the Wheel hang still if a child spin it or a drunkard? Chela, this is a great and a terrible world. 'I think it good, Kim yawned. 'What is there to eat? I have not eaten since yesterday even. 'I had forgotten thy need.
Vivian stretched out his hand; he took the slice; he lifted it up, and then the cake saw his red mouth open yes, open wider than it could have believed possible wide enough to show two dreadful rows of little sharp white things. "Good gra " it began. But it never said "cious." Never at all. For in two minutes Vivian had eaten it!! And there was an end of its airs and graces.
I had eaten nothing for nearly forty hours, and perhaps the great shock which chance had given me had brought me near to the blank shadowland which is death. I remember that in some vague way there arose before me a desire to die. It was not to be suicide my religion saved me from that but death by exhaustion, by continuing to abstain from food, having no desire for it.
She was going to say, "I've eaten it," but gran'father had so earnestly impressed on her mind the sinfulness of telling lies, that she felt constrained to hesitate, and, with a trembling lip, finished by saying she had eaten some of it. "And what has become of the rest, dear?" "Please, miss, she've putt it in 'er pocket," said "Imperence" promptly.
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