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I am told, though, that your present state administration is corrupt as Tammany understands corruption." Reeves cleared his throat and would have spoken, but Enoch pushed on. "I have found, as the head of this complex Department that I must limit myself as much as possible to formulating simple, basic policies and putting these policies into the hands of men who will carry them out.
Oh, I have no thought of criticising you, no thought whatever. Here a question of logic presents itself, simple logic. You were chasing after that which was your happiness, the delight of your life, while mamma poor mamma stooped to pick up also for herself a little happiness and delight.
"In simple truth," returned Mother Bunch, "to what temptations is a creature like me exposed? Do I not naturally seek solitude, even as you seek a noisy life of pleasure? What wants have I? A very little suffices." "But you have not always that little?" "No but, weak and sickly as I seem, I can endure some privations better than you could.
'No, I shall suggest nothing further. My time for suggesting has gone by. I have only one order to give, and that is, that you leave my house. 'To-night? said Bertie; and the simple tone of the question left the doctor without any adequately dignified method of reply. 'Papa does not quite mean to-night, said Charlotte, 'at least I suppose not. 'To-morrow perhaps, suggested Bertie.
Indeed I see that these first footprints are of a woman, for no carle of the Dale has a foot as small; for we be tall fellows; and these others withal are a man's footprints; and if they showed that they had been walking side by side, simple had been thy tale; but so it is not.
Up on the surface she began to think again. Assume it's so, she instructed herself. It made no sense, but everything else made even less sense. Just assume it's so. Set it up as a practical problem. Don't worry about the why.... The problem became very simple then. She wanted to go to Manon.
Their method called for concerted action, although it was simple enough. That meant day after day of "riding circle" which is, being interpreted, riding out ten or twelve miles from camp, then turning and driving everything before them to a point near the center of the circle thus formed.
See also Thomas Hooker's Survey of the Summe of Church Discipline, London, 1648. The intolerant spirit of the time finds quaint and forcible expression in Nathaniel Ward's satirical book, The Simple Cobbler of Aggawam, 1647.
He now tells us with simple and dignified brevity that "the kingdom of Ireland lay waste and uninhabited for the space of three hundred years after the Deluge, till Partholanus, son of Seara, son of Sru, son of Easru, son of Framant, son of Fathochda, son of Magog, son of Japhet, son of Noah, arrived there with his people."
A pair of scales, in remembrance of the last judgment, and a house, have been occasionally discovered on ancient grave-stones; and once, a simple curriculum has been traced with the pole thrown backwards and a whip leaning against it, an unmistakable allusion to a departure for that place where "the weary are at rest."
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