United States or Eritrea ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
They strip and plunder us even in our nakedness, and we are obliged, in order to conciliate such harpies, to employ all that we can scrape out of our substance and our blood. I think, however, that we ought to gain them by whatever means and at whatever price."
Altogether, the matter was one of profound mystery. Meantime, it rejoiced me that poor Margaret's name had been thus rescued from the fangs of the scandalmongers. These harpies had their prey torn from them at the very moment when they were sitting down to the unhallowed banquet. For this I rejoiced, but else there was little subject for rejoicing in anything which concerned poor Margaret.
Scarborough had determined that the property should go hither and thither according to his will, without reference to the established laws of the land, and had carried, and would carry his purpose. His object had been to save his estate from the hands of those harpies, the money-lenders; and as far as he was concerned he would have saved it.
Harpies! Every one of them! Every one of them! Every one of them!" She was muttering to herself. It is possible that her thoughts were back with those persevering young aristocrats of her second widowhood. Certainly, if she had sometimes displayed a touch of the pirate in her dealings with man, man, it must be said in fairness, had not always shown his best side to her.
"They both know it now well enough, curse 'em," said the poet. "Yes; your secrets are like your situations you can't keep 'em long. My poor poet, I pity you betwixt the devil and the deep sea." "They're a pair of harpies, each holding over me the Damocles sword of an arrest for bigamy. Neither loves me." "I should think they would come in very useful to you.
They strip and plunder us even in our nakedness, and we are obliged, in order to conciliate such harpies, to employ all that we can scrape out of our substance and our blood. I think, however, that we ought to gain them by whatever means and at whatever price."
My friends continue at Arras, and, I fear, in extreme distress. I understand they have been plundered of what things they had with them, and the little supply I was able to send them was intercepted by some of the harpies of the prisons. Mrs. D's health has not been able to sustain these accumulated misfortunes, and she is at present at the hospital.
But why should I tire you any longer; in a couple of hours Fernlands remained unpolluted by one of the mob, or legal harpies who had invaded it. You may guess the rest.... A friend related the preceding incident to me; the reader may suppose him to be addressing myself. The leading circumstances are strictly true, the names and some trifling matters alone being altered.
Daun, the instant he heard of the actual March, rose from Bischofswerda: forward, forward always, to be ahead of it, however rapid; Lacy, hanging on the rear of it, willing to give trouble with his Pandour harpies, but studious above all that it should not whirl round anywhere and get upon his, Lacy's, own throat. One of the strangest marches ever seen.
And women, too or creatures that pass for such having the bodies of women and the habits of ruffians; harpies all claws and teeth and greed bold desperate shameless incapable of good. They, too, are here. They dart hither and thither; they swarm they dance they howl they chatter they quarrel and battle, like carrion-vultures, over the spoils. Civilization is gone, and all the devils are loose!
Word Of The Day