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Both went skyward to heaven, yet the two travelled in directly opposite directions. In all eternity they would never meet. Which, then, got to heaven? Or was there no such place? "I am only a plain man, and I want to know." Preserve us our open spaces; they exist to testify to the incurable interest of humanity in the Unknown and the Misunderstood.
It would have been as impossible for him to have repudiated a single one of them at the desire of his friends or in the interest of his idealistic enterprises as it would have been for him to have repudiated it to his own private profit.
From the point of view of a struggle between principles, this was indeed a clash between the principle of solidarity of labor and that of trade separatism, but, in reality, each of the principles reflected only the special interest of a certain portion of the working class.
When Judge Blackwell was introduced to the girl, he looked at her with what seemed to Dunham to be more than a passing interest; but the keen eyes were almost immediately transferred to his own face, and the young man had no further time to watch his protégé, as dinner was immediately announced. Miss Remington was seated next to Dunham at the table, with the Judge on her other side.
She took an interest in her cousin, seeing that she was weak and poor; she was, besides, not indisposed to take a pupil with whom to found a school, and asked nothing better than to have a sort of lady-in-waiting in Mme. de Bargeton, a dependent who would sing her praises, a treasure even more scarce among Parisian women than a staunch and loyal critic among the literary tribe.
The article was followed by others, all of the greatest interest and originality. The man himself had little idea of the importance of his own discoveries.
I am neither childish-young, nor beldame-old, but, the world says, a good agreeable woman. "Speak peace to a troubled heart, troubled only for you; and in your next paper, let me find your thoughts of me. "Do not think of finding out who I am, for, notwithstanding your interest in demons, they cannot help you either to my name, or a sight of my face; therefore, do not let them deceive you.
At that rate a chief factor's retired interest would amount to 3,264l., and a chief trader's to 1,632l., less discount, supposing payment to be made at once, instead of its being spread over nine or ten years.
To him whose highest interest is centred in his own miserable self, to him who cares only to gain his own ends, to him who seeks only his own individual comfort, to that man Freethought can have no attraction.
"I hope, sir," said I, as Mick and I raised him up between us into a sitting posture `Gyp' watching the operation with a most intense interest and pleasure, his little black muzzle working, and his short tail wagging all the time "I do hope you are not seriously hurt, sir?" Captain Sackville drew a deep breath and shook himself.
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