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"Yes, but," objected the advocate's wife, casting an uneasy glance over her table, "isn't that the way of the world? We know that inequality " "We ought to be careful not to increase the inequality, but rather to do what we can to smooth it away," Mrs. Warden interrupted. And it appeared to Mrs. Abel that her friend cast a glance of disapprobation over the table, the stuffs, and the Bazars.

"Doubtless," he said, reluctantly, "it is his duty as a doctor, but that is no reason why he should prevent poor fishermen from getting their living." "I believe the doctor's factory gives employment to three hundred, whilst there were only twenty in Noroe at the time of which you speak," objected Erik, timidly.

Then, as the Dryholm car rolled up to the steps, Dick said to Mordaunt: "You got the wrong time, after all. I compared my watch with Hodson's. His was a presentation from the farmers' club, you know; the latest thing in watches, and he declares it's accurate." "It's not very important." "In a way, it is important," Dick objected. "If I'd been here soon enough, I'd have urged their choosing Jim."

Possessing no sense of humor, which her husband and Kathleen had in abundance, she seriously objected to their poking fun at her beloved organization, the Sisters in Unity, of which she was a charter member. Any allusion to it in fun she considered an offense in good taste. Therefore withdrawing into dignified silence she permitted Whitney and Kathleen to keep up the conversation.

Now," said Michael, with a really appalling seriousness of manner, "tell me who we are." The unfortunate little man was cross-examined till he knew these facts by heart. "There!" cried the lawyer. "Our plans are laid. Thoroughly consistent that's the great thing." "But I don't understand," objected Pitman. "O, you'll understand right enough when it comes to the point," said Michael, rising.

'These men objected to this gentleman's speech at the meeting, and I had to interfere to protect him. No, no! I don't want to charge anybody. It was all a misunderstanding. I helped the stricken jock to rise and offered him ten bob for consolation. He looked at me sullenly and spat on the ground. 'Keep your dirty money, he said. 'I'll be even with ye yet, my man you and that red-headed scab.

'Nothing that I know of, I replied. 'I am under no obligation to myself. How can I divide myself, and say that the one-half of me is indebted to the other? To my mind, it is a mere fiction of speech. 'But whence, then, should such a fiction arise? objected Charley, willing, perhaps, to defend Clara. 'From the dim sense of a real obligation, I suspect the object of which is mistaken.

"Shotaye used to go farther," objected the elder. "Shotaye," Hayoue muttered, "Shotaye was you know what she was! There is none like her in the world. What she may be doing in case she is alive, nobody can tell." "I wish I knew her to be with Say Koitza now," Zashue sighed. "Shotaye is dead," his brother asserted.

But almost from the first we had trouble. It went on so from month to month, and finally we agreed to part. He objected, my dear, to my living my own life. He didn't like me to take an interest in things outside the house public matters. I was elected on the school-board the only woman and he ought to have been proud.

Pringle objected strongly to any unnecessary waste of his brain-tissues. Besides, the best poets borrowed. Virgil did it. Tennyson did it. Even Homer we have it on the authority of Mr Kipling when he smote his blooming lyre went and stole what he thought he might require. Why should Pringle of the School House refuse to follow in such illustrious footsteps?