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He regaled his readers and hearers with indubitable facts facts which, for the most part, were easily susceptible of proof, and which were eminently calculated to arouse public indignation against the harpies who reaped where they had sowed not, and who gathered where they had not strawed.
He sought out and entertained scores of mediums, psychics, sensitives, inspiritual speakers, and natural healers all were welcome at his hearth. He might have been called, and was called, "the prey of harpies," but, as his interests now were in these matters, and as he had the means wherewithal to amuse himself, surely he was not a loser.
Keturah sat down on the window-sill in the calm of despair. It was succeeded by a storm. She concludes that she was about five seconds on the passage from her room to the garden. With "hair flotant, and arms disclosed," like the harpies of heraldic device, she rushed up to the invaders and stopped. Exactly what was to be done?
"Now," cried Lord John, "now for our lives!" We staggered through the brushwood, and even as we reached the trees the harpies were on us again. Summerlee was knocked down, but we tore him up and rushed among the trunks. Once there we were safe, for those huge wings had no space for their sweep beneath the branches.
As soon as they arrived most of them absurdly ignorant of what was to be done, and of the necessaries required for the voyage they were pounced upon by a set of harpies, who misled them in every possible way, and fleeced them without mercy.
"At length I land upon the Strophades, Safe from the dangers of the stormy seas. Those isles are compassed by th' Ionian main, The dire abode where the foul Harpies reign: Monsters more fierce offended Heaven ne'er sent From hell's abyss for human punishment.
What to him is commercial integrity, or professional reputation, or woman's honor, or home's sanctity? It seems as if he held in his hand a hose with which, while all the harpies of sin were working at the pumps, he splashed the waters of death upon the best interests of society.
Let them cower here and hide themselves, and I, who come from Zeus, will swear the oath that the gods most dread, that they will never again come to Salmydessus to trouble Phineus, the king." The heroes yielded to the words of Iris. She took the oath that the gods most dread the oath by the Water of Styx that never again would the Harpies show themselves to Phineus.
This would, indeed, be very fatal, was it not for one circumstance; that the sailor is seldom provided with the proper bait for these harpies. However, the contrary sometimes happens, as these harpies will bite at almost anything, and will snap at a pair of silver buttons, or buckles, as surely as at the specie itself.
Always the clouds of harpies around the White House and the Departments, such a generous ferment in the people, and such impurities coming to the surface! Patronage is the stumbling stone here to true political action. By patronage the Cabinet keeps in check Congressmen, Senators, etc. I learn from very good authority that when Russell, with his shadow, Sam. Ward, went South, Mr.
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