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It would have been almost better to have had something to bear; but I am richer than I need be, Maud and the children have been in perfect health and happiness, I have been well and strong. I shall hope that the familiar scene, the pleasant activities of home-life will bring the desire back. I realise how much the fabric of my life is built upon my writing, and write I must.
Surely this is a brighter prospect than the ceaseless round of toil at desk or counter, in which so many in England, even the more fortunate, spend their youth helping to make rich men richer. "Among the hundreds are there not some failures, some exceptions? What becomes of them?" Yes, there are disappointments and failures in this work as well as in every other.
In fine, many of the poorer victims were inhumanly burned; while the richer with great sums of money procured their discharge, but at the same time were compelled to banish themselves to distant places, remote from the scene of this cruel outrage.
A people of rare intellectual activity had been united to the life of Rome at the moment of her greatest intellectual elevation. Was it strange that no Roman province ever produced so long a list of historians, poets, philosophers, as did Southern Spain after the Augustan conquest? Nowhere can the student of Roman antiquities find a richer field than in Spain.
“Where do you come from,” one asked, “and how is it that you have escaped the conscription?” “I am exempt,” he said, “as the only son of my mother. I come from Champagne.” “But why have you left?” “I came away because the girl I was engaged to jilted me for a richer suitor, and I could not stop there to see her married; I should have cut his throat or my own.
The crushing burden of the great land tax, the emperor's chief source of income, was greatly increased by the pernicious way in which it was collected. The government made a group of the richer citizens in each of the towns permanently responsible for the whole amount due from all the landowners within their district.
Voltaire's eyes were more sparkling than diamonds, and the glances which he fixed upon the Princess Amelia more glowing; her pale and earnest beauty inspired him to finer wit and richer hymns of praise. No one dared to say that this passionate adoration offered to the princess was unbecoming and offensive to etiquette.
Indeed, I should have been bored with the crowd of fops with which the shop was always full. She began to be a topic of conversation in the town; the Palais Royal was full of her; and I was glad to hear that she kept to herself as if she had richer prey in view. That told me that no one possessed her so far, and I hoped that I might be the prey myself; I was quite willing to be captured.
But everybody who hasn't got it hates those who have." "Don't hate me!" said Ashe, quickly. "Yes," she said, with stubbornness, "I must. Do you know why I was such a wild-cat at school? Because some of the other girls were more important than I much more important and richer and more beautiful and people paid them more attention. And that seemed to burn the heart in me."
The deposits of gold at the south pole were richer than the wildest reports had represented them. The shipments of the precious metal to America and Europe soon became enormous so enormous that the metal was no longer precious. The price of gold dropped like a falling stone, with accelerated velocity, and within a year every money centre in the world had been swept by a panic.
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