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"I am not of your country, sir; but I have an infinite veneration for your country, as Strap said to the French soldier. Will you take a glass of wine?" "Ah, de tout mon coeur, as the parasite said to Gil Blas," cried the young man, laughing. "Here's to our better acquaintance!"
Too many of the fathers who had come to the village intending themselves to work gradually sank into the parasite class and sat around the village store while their children worked. During the early expansion of the industry, the wages paid were low compared with New England standards, but they were sufficient to draw the people from the farms and to hold them at the mills.
He was no parasite of royalty; he had that strong personal affection to the prince which it is often the good fortune of royalty to attract.
Here at last was something they could grapple with, something so common among the races of the galaxy that the doctors felt certain that they could cope with it. Very few, if any, higher life forms existed that did not have some sort of submicroscopic parasite afflicting them.
Towards the end of August, the parasite of the flesh fly's grubs makes her appearance out of doors in the adult form. She is a Chalcidid, as I expected. She issues from the barrel through one or two little round holes which the prisoners have pierced with a patient tooth. I count some thirty to each pupa. There would not be enough room in the abode if the family were larger.
Lord Macaulay took the subject in hand and tossed it up and down for half a dozen pages with a gusto that drove home to many minds the conviction, the strange conviction, that our greatest biography was written by one of the very smallest men that ever lived, 'a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect' by a dunce, a parasite, and a coxcomb; by one 'who, if he had not been a great fool, would never have been a great writer. So far Macaulay, anno Domini 1831, in the vigorous pages of the Edinburgh Review.
Mukhum Dass called after her, but she took no notice. He sent the sweating parasite to bring her back, but she shook him off with execrations. Mukhum Dass turned his mule and rode down-hill after her. "True information has its price," he said. "Tell me your name." "That also has its price." He cackled dryly. "Natives cost money only to their owners on a hundi." "Nevertheless there is a price."
This parasite, Hazel explained to Helen, was very common in such marshy ground, and was the death-flag hung out by Nature to warn man that malaria and fever were the invisible and inalienable inhabitants of that fatal neighborhood.
He has enemies, was variously said of the persecuted nobleman. But it was nothing worse than the parasite that he had. This was the parasite's gentle treason. He found it an easy road to humour; it pricked the slug fancy in him to stir and curl; gave him occasion to bundle and bustle his patron kindly.
If you derive benefits from ownership, you must educate yourself to accept your duty to society." "Indeed!" flared Alys, furious at this public arraignment. "May I ask if you intend to continue this insulting attitude?" "If you mean, do I expect hereafter to be a live woman and not a parasite I do." Mrs.
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