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Watch the fingers of the two old harridans who are talking scandal: for what long years past they have pointed out holes in their neighbors' dresses and mud on their flounces. "Here's a go! I've lost my diamond ring." As the dustman utters this pathetic cry, and looks at his hand, you burst out laughing. These are among the little points of humor.
Once the women of Christendom become at ease in the use of the ballot, and get rid of the preposterous harridans who got it for them and who now seek to tell them what to do with it, they will proceed to a scotching of many of the sentimentalities which currently corrupt politics. For one thing, I believe that they will initiate measures against democracy the worst evil of the present-day world.
Before they find their way to the main again, these harridans of nature bring forth a brood of currents which ceaselessly fret the boundaries of the isles. Always, always the white foam beats the rocks, and always must man go warily along these coasts.
That counter-procession was a sight to see, too; the feature of elegance was conspicuous by its absence, but there was more colour in it. Harridans of seventy crawled after hussies of seventeen; bare arms and bandannas were more noticeable than black veils and fans; the improbæ Gaditanæ, known of old to certain lively satirists, Martial and Juvenal by name, turned out in force.
"See here, McCabe, I've had a deuce of a time with that case. Must have been something wrong with the address, you know." "How's that?" says I. "Why," says he, "it led me to a smelly, top-floor flat up in Harlem, and all I could find there was this impossible person, Mrs. Fletcher Shaw. Of all the sniveling, lying, vicious-tongued old harridans! Do you know what she did?
"We will kill that one first," said Caevo'g. "There is only one of him," said Cuillen. "And each of us three is the match for an hundred," said Iaran. The uncanny, misbehaved, and outrageous harridans advanced then to meet the son of Morna, and when he saw these three Goll whipped the sword from his thigh, swung his buckler round, and got to them in ten great leaps.
She lives with us for the love of God, for the love of God." The orphan crouching on the corner of the hearth had been looking at Byrne. He thought that she was more like a child of Satan kept there by these two weird harridans for the love of the Devil. Her eyes were a little oblique, her mouth rather thick, but admirably formed; her dark face had a wild beauty, voluptuous and untamed.
The political harridans would get the wrong men appointed, would attack every possible leader with scandal and abuse and falsehood.... The spirit and honour and drama had gone out of this war. Our only hope now was exhaustion. Our only strategy was to barter blood for blood trusting that our tank would prove the deeper.... While into this tank stepped Hugh, young and smiling....
There, in the little house, a lamp was lighted; his mother stood at the doorway looking out for him. Breathless, he informed her of his encounter with the Mission ladies, and the priest's vile trick to shame him. "Aha," she laughed, "a famous joker is our father Mîtri. I would give much to have seen the faces of those harridans!
"No, probably they all had all those." "Then horsemanship." "Perhaps. Didn't Cleopatra ride?" "Then what?" said I, puzzled. "Indiscretion!" he answered, jerking loose the catch of his infernal instrument. "Don't be afraid, old ladies," he said, glancing at the harridans between us. "I'm only going to sing!"
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