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The other matter is concerning the stabbing of my cows in the night since I came hither, but a few weeks ago; and endeavouring thereby to starve my forlorn family in my absence; my cows being all dried by it, which was their chief subsistence; though I hope they had not the power to kill any of them outright. . . .
Because of this prediction, many of our gentlemen are not willing even so much as to taste of the root, but Captain Smith says that wise men may grow fat where fools starve, therefore he gathers up all the sweet potatoes which the others have thrown away, for they please him exceeding well.
Just as in a family, if parents, brothers, and sisters will not do their duty to each other lovingly and of their free will, the law interferes, and the custom of the country interferes, and the opinion of neighbours interferes, and says: "You may not love your parents: but you have no right to leave them to starve."
I will pay his mother five shillings a week, and, if he is a good boy, I'll give him some old clothes. And if ever you see or hear of his disgracing himself and his friends by begging again, if you don't thrash him within an inch of his life, I shall. I promise you, the widow might starve for the want of that five shillings if the young gentleman could slip out of his bargain.
Why should you and I " and he took her hand "wait and plan and sour ourselves as little people do? We've both got to live, haven't we? And we are going to live; you don't expect we shall starve, do you?" She shook her head, smiling. "Well, then," triumphantly, "why shouldn't we live together? Why, it would be absurd not to, even from the base and practical point of view. Think of the saving!
But it could not be done with the intellectual worker." Dr. Zimmern smiled cynically. "At least," he added, "we don't propose to admit that it can be done. And that, Col. Armstadt, is what I was remarking about the other evening. Unless you chemists can solve the protium problem, Germany must cut her population swiftly, if we do not starve out altogether.
"I know your plans; you simply want to rid yourself of me and leave me in the gutter to starve." "How can you believe such a thing!" cried Mariette, reproachfully, her eyes full of tears. "Your fears are groundless, I assure you," Louis hastened to say. "I have just discovered that my father is immensely wealthy, but for reasons of his own, he has kept the matter a secret until now."
In trying to escape from this inquisitive neighbour, Marie hurt her foot, but was caught, and confessed that it was she who went at night to water poor Mother Lobineau's cabbages; because if they failed the old woman might starve, and no one else remembered her destitute and helpless state.
He listened, and walked a few steps further. "Wisht I was a bird, I'd get up in that tree. Wisht I had a raven to bring me my supper s'pose I'll starve and die too." "Bubbles, where are you?" called Mr. Dallas. He heard a scrambling overhead, and a delighted reply. "Hyah, sah, hyah I are." He looked all around, but did not see her. "Where are you?" he asked again. "On de roof, sah."
Of course they must eat the fruit or starve, and most of them prefer losing their minds to going hungry." Prince Daimur listened to the tale with a shiver, for he did not in the least want to be enchanted and lose his mind. "Have you ever seen the Magician?" he asked after a pause. "I have been told he knows many secrets of chemistry." "No," answered the dove. "We have never seen him.
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