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"I want you to go to your grandpa and talk to him once more. Not givin' up your plans altogether but not forcin' him to give up his either, not right away. Tell him you realize he wants you to go on with Z. Snow and Company and that you will for a while " "But " "For a while, I said; three or four years, say. You won't be so dreadful old then, not exactly what you'd call a Methusalem.
I afterwards did without the House fall in company with my Lady Peters, and endeavoured to mollify her; but she told me she would not, to redeem her from hell, do any thing to release him; but would be revenged while she lived, if she lived the age of Methusalem. I made many friends, and so did others.
Although the atmosphere, in its natural state, is not at all times perfectly pure, still it is comparatively so, and especially in the daytime. All, therefore, who would retain and improve their health, should inhale the open air as much as possible, even though they can not, like Franklin's Methusalem, be always in it.
'Perhaps, remarked Logan, 'the chemist was voting at the Comitia, and it was his boy who made a mistake about the mixture. 'Very probably, but as a rule, the love philtres worked. Now, with all our boasted progress, the secret is totally lost. Nothing but a love philtre would be of any use in some cases. There is Lord Methusalem, eighty if he is a day.
The receipts are there for curious searchers. They were applied to aristocratic patients; and they are no more absurd or loathsome than those of other books of the time and kind. Even Bacon is fantastic enough with his "Grains of Youth" and "Methusalem Water." In 1682, George Hartman published, "for the Publike Good," The True Preserver and Restorer of Health.
It would be a consolation to an elderly gentleman. 'I am afraid mankind are too hostile to philosophy, said Herbert, smiling, 'to permit so desirable a consummation. 'Should you consider a long life a blessing? said Cadurcis. 'Would you like, for instance, to live to the age of Methusalem? 'Those whom the gods love die young, said Herbert.
But might I, fed with silent meditation, Assoiled live from that fiend Occupation Improbus labor, which my spirits hath broke I'd drink of time's rich cup, and never surfeit Fling in more days than went to make the gem That crowned the white top of Methusalem Yea on my weak neck take, and never forfeit, Like Atlas bearing up the dainty sky, The heaven-sweet burthen of eternity.
Even Sandy Sawtelle couldn't think of anything bright to say. Safety now climbs on his horse, strangely cheerful, and says; "Well, I'll have to be getting along with them new mules of mine." Then he kind of giggled at the crowd and says: "I certainly got the laugh on this outfit, starting a business where this here old Methusalem hisself could hardly get it going good before death cut him off!"
Once or twice I asked her, and she says, 'Never you mind, she says; 'he's all right for life, if he lives to be as old as Methusalem. And she never said more, and I never said more. But," continued Mrs.
But Methusalem answered and said, If I am to live but five hundred years longer, it is not worth while to build me a house. I will sleep in the air as I have been accustomed to do."
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