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Is there anything you would like me to say to him, my dear?" he asked, and spoke with a certain hesitancy; for as yet he had not spoken of her future, feeling that her grief was too recent, too sacred, to permit of the obtrusion of material and worldly matters. "To say to him?" she repeated, in a low, dull voice, as if she did not understand. "Yes," he said.
"Not even your Monsieur de Commines can shut out a man from himself, and who is a better friend or a worse enemy? Saxe, the wise man, has hanged himself." "Hanged himself? Saxe?" "An intelligent anticipation," said Villon, nodding thoughtfully. "I did not think he had so much good sense or good feeling. He always struck me as a man of a coarse, material mind; but one can never tell."
Why don't you write of something near by, something or somebody you are acquainted with?" "Acquainted with! You're crazy, man. What am I acquainted with, except this house, and myself and my books and and Bayport?" "That's enough. Why, there is material in that gang at the post-office to make a dozen books. Write about them." "Tut! tut! tut! You ARE crazy.
The thought was maddening. Of course, now, the landlady would have material for a new assault. And how could he avert it? A despairing film blurred his sight for the moment then the eyes flashed daringly. "I will meet it like a man!" he said, mentally "yea, like a State's Attorney, I will invite it! Let her do her worst!" He called a servant, giving some message in an undertone.
But little in Rome, as we all know, has remained unchanged in these strange latter days. But few things at least few material things have experienced such a change as the Collegio Romano. The "Collegio Romano" was in fact nothing more than the principal convent of the Jesuits.
He was pleasantly excited by the evident increase in the proportion of military material upon the railways; he liked the promise and mystery of the long lines of trucks bearing tarpaulin-covered wagons and carts and guns that he would pass on his way to Liverpool Street station.
Hallock has been making an inventory of material on hand for the past week or more, and now that I think of it, I remember having seen your wire and the telephone sets included in his last sheet of telegraph supplies." "There it goes again," said the trainmaster sourly. "Every time I get a half-hitch on that fellow, something turns up to make it slip.
When we say that people are "worthy," we mean, I suppose, that they are worthy of material relief, but no one is so worthy as to be absolutely relief-proof. If relief is given without plan or purpose, it will injure the worthiest recipient.
On hearing this and the rest of his information several ladies and a young man of genial expression began to doubt in their turn. A Hack in Grub Street whom Painful Labour had driven to Despair and Mysticism read the announcement with curiosity rather than amazement, fully believing that the Great Dead, visiting as they do the souls, may also come back rarely to the material cities of men.
This is, perhaps, partly the fault of the age, which has come to place so high a value upon literary form that the quality of the material is often lost sight of. Let us hope that some day a genius will arise who will be great enough to disregard form and to strike out his own path across the domain of letters.
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