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On the day following Maitland's departure for New York, Mr. Darrow was buried. The Osborne theory seemed to be universally accepted, and many women who had never seen Mr. Darrow during his life attended his funeral, curious to see what sort of a person this suicide might be.
"My dear girl, I'm going to marry her isn't that enough? Does a man commit suicide except when he's sincere?" Her shallow cynicism had dropped from her now, and she turned toward him with an unaffected anxiety in her face. "Then it will last it must." "Last!" An expression of irritation showed in his eyes, and he shrugged his shoulders with an impatient movement.
"That boy was then of a happy, merry disposition, so the mother says, and every summer night as she cooked supper she used to hear him laughing as he romped in the yard with his father. When I first saw him this summer, it was two days before his father committed suicide.
"'I exclaimed: "'My son? Where is my son? "'He made no reply. I stammered: "'Dead-dead. Has he committed suicide? "'No, no, I swear it. But we have not found him in spite of all my efforts.
Facing about, he turned upon the President and opposed the attack. "Mr. President," he said, "at this time, it is suicide, murder, and will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean, and legions, now quiet, will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary; it puts us in the wrong; it is fatal."
Now he realised that love, even in its intensest, was only an attribute of the human soul: one of its incomprehensible gestures. And to fling down the whole soul in one gesture of finality in love was as much a criminal suicide as to jump off a church-tower or a mountain-peak. Let a man give himself as much as he liked in love, to seven thousand extremities, he must never give himself away.
At least death is the only simple term we can use to represent such a complete loss of our habitual mental functions. When life is difficult, we naturally tend to seek death. Were it not for the powerful instinct of self-preservation, suicide would probably be the universal mode of solving our problems.
She wished to make the death of Poland in part a suicide. At length she invited Prussia and Austria to take part with her in the first seizure and partition of Polish territory . Each took certain provinces. In 1793 the second, and in 1795 the final partition of Poland, was made by its three neighbors.
"Yes," I agreed, looking up from reading an account of the failure of a large Wall Street brokerage house, Kerr Parker & Co., and the peculiar suicide of Kerr Parker. "Yes, it's impossible, just as it is impossible for the regular detectives to antagonize the newspapers. Scotland Yard found that out in the Crippen case."
What if the poor creature had determined upon suicide on the spot where her faithless lover had fallen? He was reassured in another moment by the rustle of skirts in the undergrowth. "I was becoming quite alarmed," he said, aloud. "You have reason to be," returned a hurried voice. He started. It was Miss Porter, who stepped swiftly out of the cover.
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