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If the historian of human life were simply telling you of a suicide, five hundred of which occur yearly in Paris, the melodrama is so commonplace that brief reasons and explanations are all that need be given; but how shall he make you see that the self-destruction of an estate could happen in these days when property is reckoned of more value than life?
If the utility of the product, instead of wholly disappearing, should only diminish, a thing which may happen in a hundred ways, the laborer, instead of being struck down and ruined by a sudden catastrophe, would be impoverished only; obliged to give a large quantity of his own value for a small quantity of the values of others, his means of subsistence would be reduced by an amount equal to the deficit in his sale: which would lead by degrees from competency to want.
Tell me what I can do for you; I am ready." "May God reward you, Monsieur Fanfaro; oh, if it is only not too late." "Monsieur Aube," asked Fanfaro, politely, "what is the matter?" "A young girl it will bring me to my grave when I think that such a thing should happen in my house I " "Landlord," interrupted Arthur, "let me tell the story to the gentleman.
She seated herself again with no less complacency and with more deliberation than before. "I brought you up to be polite, Elizabeth," she said. "Things do sometimes happen that are very trying, to be sure, but we should not give way to irritation. Why, where should I have been if I had? Think how it would have distressed your dear mother to have you show such temper."
They knew that once they let themselves think, that once they let themselves realize the full significance, the utter finality of this thing that was about to happen, it would be hard for them to smile. And they so wanted to smile! They had been so glad, so proud when the boys had volunteered among the very first.
"You were burned recently, Lydia?" Dundee asked pityingly. "That's my business!" the woman astounded him by retorting harshly. "How did it happen, Lydia?" Dundee persisted, puzzled. "I had an accident. It was my own fault." Lois Dunlap's kind grey eyes caught and held Dundee's firmly. "I think, if Nita could speak to you now, Mr.
But, however, or by whatever they swear, cursing is distinguished from swearing thus. To curse, to curse profanely, it is to sentence another or ourself, for or to evil; or to wish that some evil might happen to the person or thing under the curse unjustly. It is to sentence for or to evil, that is, without a cause.
"Suppose I had good shoes and a long, thick coat and merino stockings and a whole umbrella. And suppose suppose, just when I was near a baker's where they sold hot buns, I should find sixpence which belonged to nobody. Suppose, if I did, I should go into the shop and buy six of the hottest buns, and should eat them all without stopping." Some very odd things happen in this world sometimes.
After gazing at the country for along time in silence, he turned toward her. "Whereabouts is the fiery lake you spoke of?" "It lies on the other side of the mountain. But why do you ask?" "It is just as well if we have some way to walk. I shall grow calmer, and that's what I want. I wish you to understand that what is going to happen is not a murder, but an execution."
The chauffeur had barely begun his tale of woe when the sergeant interrupted with the smile of one imparting good news: "You state that you have lost a motor-car. Does it happen to be red, and will seat four persons?" "Yes. That's it! Have you seen it?" "Does it happen to have for number 1430 G-7?" "Exact!... Has it passed this way?" "Wait!... Were there not goatskin wraps inside?" "Yes!... Yes!"
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