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For two summers, aided by a servant, I descended from a wheel-chair into the warm water; in the third I could dispense with assistance; and from the fourth for several lustra I moved unchecked with a steady step. After a long interval, owing to a severe relapse of the apparently conquered disease, I returned to them. The Wurtemberg Wildbad is one of the oldest cures in Germany.
And the strangers said, Ye play upon us with a jest, young men; we and our fathers have sojourned under these roofs these six generations; the names ye utter rot upon the tombs, and they that bore them have run their brief race, have laughed and sung, have borne the sorrows and the weariness that were allotted them, and are at rest; for nine-score years the summers have come and gone, and the autumn leaves have fallen, since the roses faded out of their cheeks and they laid them to sleep with the dead.
I should think one winter of lying out would hurt it more than three summers of using." "It does. But sheds are not easily had. Lumber is dear." "But I should think it would be economy even then." "Yes," he said, "perhaps. But we all do that way out here. It takes some money for a man to be economical with. Some of us haven't even that much." There was a six-mile ride from the station.
"Like a knife," declared Miss Summers, with a quick dart of her feline eyes. "Really?" Sally was eager. She gave a little chuckle of pleasure at such emphatic praise. "You'd be able to do the books, but you're better where you are. When you've been here another three months, Sally, you'll be getting more money.
"It should be inquired into!" declared Walter. "I'll take Summers and go down there to have a look round, if you like." "I wish you would," said the chief. "I'll 'phone Summers to meet you at Liverpool Street Station," he added, turning to the railway guide. "There's a train at one forty-five. Will that suit you?" "Yes. Tell him to meet me at Liverpool Street and we'll see who this 'Mr.
The splendor is more gaudy than regal; it strikes our fancy, but leaves our admiration unmoved. She has seen some sixty summers, made her nefarious reputation in New York; there she keeps a joint establishment, which, she adds, has been kindly patronized by the members of several pumpkin-headed corporations.
I tell you this beforehand, so that you may not ask any questions, or be puzzled by the inconsistency of the actors in these old stories. "Once there were ten brothers who lived with their only sister, a young maiden of sixteen summers. She was very skilful at her embroidery, and her brothers all had beautifully worked quivers and bows embossed with porcupine quills.
Then came the hard times that brought every one on the Divide to the brink of despair; three years of drouth and failure, the last struggle of a wild soil against the encroaching plowshare. The first of these fruitless summers the Bergson boys bore courageously. The failure of the corn crop made labor cheap. Lou and Oscar hired two men and put in bigger crops than ever before.
His was the store of Ah Kim Company, and his was the achievement of building it up through the long years from the shoestring of savings of a contract coolie labourer to a bank account in four figures and a credit that was gilt edged. An even half-century of summers and winters had passed over his head, and, in the passing, fattened him comfortably and snugly.
Torrid summers and freezing winters, labour and drudgery and ignorance, were the portion of their girlhood; a short wooing, a hasty, loveless marriage, unlimited maternity, thankless sons, premature age and ugliness, were the dower of their womanhood. But what matter? Tonight there was hot liquor in the glass and hot blood in the heart; tonight they danced.
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