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"I mean this, Hazlet; setting aside all considerations which affect your mere personal ruin not mentioning the atrophy of spiritual life and the clinging sense of degradation which is involved in such a course as yours I want you to see if you will be honest, that the fault is yet more deadly, because you involve other souls and other lives in your own destruction.

It is a grave misfortune for our country, and especially for our rich men, that the modern forms of property, namely, stocks and bonds, mortgages, and city buildings do not carry with them any inevitable responsibilities to the state, or involve their owner in personal risks and charges as a leader or commander of the people.

In a very short period he had given away mainly to Scotchmen at least two millions of crowns, in various articles of personal property. Yet England was very poor.

It is certainly beyond all question that 30/ a week, which is the present wage over a large part of England, is not, even with only 3/ a week rent for house and garden, enough to keep a man and his wife and family in a state of real efficiency. Yet I know from personal experience that this fact is not properly recognised in practice.

Notwithstanding, Mildred, Tom Wychecombe has a good six hundred a year already, and Sir Reginald himself admits that he must take all the personal property the late baronet could leave." "You forget, father," said Mildred, conscious of the inefficacy of any other appeal, "that Mr. Thomas has promised to pay the legacies that Sir Wycherly intended to leave."

He was a great loss at that especial time, as a restraining power, trusted by the innovators, and a personal friend both of King and Cardinal, and his preaching and catechising were sorely missed at St. Paul's. Tibble Steelman, though thinking he did not go far enough, deplored him deeply; but Tibble himself was laid by for many days.

Asked in August by a friend who noted his worn looks, if he could not go away for a fortnight's rest, he replied: "I cannot fly from my thoughts my solicitude for this great country follows me wherever I go. I do not think it is personal vanity or ambition, though I am not free from these infirmities, but I cannot but feel that the weal or woe of this great nation will be decided in November.

He seemed about seventeen years of age, and was of quite extraordinary personal beauty, though evidently somewhat effeminate. Indeed, had it not been for the dress and the closely cropped hair, one would have said that the face with its dreamy wistful eyes, and its delicate scarlet lips, was the face of a girl.

The little local newspapers and every city has a small swarm of them, which are remarkable for the absence of news and an abundance of advertisements have broken out into a style of personal controversy, which, to put it mildly, makes me, an American, feel quite at home. Both parties are very much in earnest, and both speak with a freedom that is, in itself, a very hopeful sign.

Mac Ian was seriously apprehensive of some personal outrage, and was glad to get safe back to his own glen. His pride had been wounded; and the promptings of interest concurred with those of pride. As the head of a people who lived by pillage, he had strong reasons for wishing that the country might continue to be in a perturbed state.