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To get it patented, to make money from it, to revel in piggishness with all night in while other men do the work. That's my purpose. Also, I have enjoyed working it out." "The creative joy," I murmured. "I guess that's what it ought to be called.

A hundred years from now people will be as ashamed of us for our piggishness as we are of our eighteenth-century forbears for their wine-swilling to the detriment of their descendants. A dinner party of to-day bears no more relation to a rational gathering of rational people for the purpose of rational social intercourse than "

"It's the happlication of science, I suppose?" sneered Huish. "I don't know what it is," cried Davis, pacing the floor; "it's there! I draw the line at it. I can't put a finger to no such piggishness. It's too damned hateful!" "And I suppose it's all your fancy pynted it," said Huish, "w'en you take a pistol and a bit o' lead, and copse a man's brains all over him? No accountin' for tystes."

"You did it, because you were scheming to obtain a second portion because you did not feel yourself able to eat both portions at your leisure here, and thought to put by a part to devour in secret at a future time. It's a most painful exhibition of pure piggishness. There shall be no pocketing at this table, sir.

It was heart-renderin'! An' what used they be flogged for, do you think? for the piggishness of the swells mostly. I'll tell you. There was a old feller lived out at Kaligiwa that's more than twenty miles the other side of Goulburn, an' there's Parry's Lagoon there called after him till this day.

You're a good little thing." "Miss Picolet will see you, Ruth," whispered Helen, on her other side. "She is disgusted with Heavy's piggishness. But Miss Picolet, after all, won't say anything to you. You are her pet." "Don't say that, Helen," replied Ruth, with some sadness. "I am sorry for Miss Picolet." "I don't see why you need be. She seems to get along very well," returned her chum.

Rome did not become civilized in any decent sense: she simply forwent Roman virtues and replaced them with Greek vices; and made of these, not the vices of a degenerate culture, but the piggishness of cultureless boors. Behold her Gadarene stations, after Flamininus's return: Millions of money, in indemnities, loot, and what not, in bribes before very long, are flowing in to her.

They made the clothes, but they shiver in rags and ask you, the lawyer, or business agent who handles your money, for a job." "But that is beside the matter," I cried. "Not at all." He was speaking rapidly now, and his eyes were flashing. "It is piggishness, and it is life. Of what use or sense is an immortality of piggishness? What is the end? What is it all about? You have made no food.

It has never hurt me." Matilda was silent. "Is that your notion, that it is unwholesome?" "No, ma'am." "What then?" "People take too much of it," said Matilda; "and it ruins them; and if all good people would let it alone, wouldn't it help to make the rest let it alone?" "Insufferable piggishness!" said Mrs. Bartholomew. "You must excuse me, Zara.

And yet here you are, at the top of your life, where diminishing and dying begin, living an obscure and sordid existence, hunting sea animals for the satisfaction of woman's vanity and love of decoration, revelling in a piggishness, to use your own words, which is anything and everything except splendid. Why, with all that wonderful strength, have you not done something?