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When men and women are equals they will love no more. Your highly-cultured women will not be lovable, will not love. "Do they see nothing, understand nothing? It is Tant Sannie who buries husbands one after another, and folds her hands resignedly, 'The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord, and she looks for another.
"Miss O. Well, certainly I did my best; but I fear I have ruined the political reputation of my English partizans, for in order to make them 'beloved of the Slave, I of course had to make them, poor souls! go against their own country; and their country, stupid as it is, has now I fear found them out. "G. Tant pis pour eux!
As Mahâmâyâ she recalls it to herself.... Each of these movements is divine. Enjoyment and liberation are each her gifts." Avalon, Mahân. There is probably something similar in Taoism. See Wieger, Histoire des Croyances religieuses en Chine, p. 409. Tan. Tant. I. chap. A special image of the goddess is made which is worshipped for nine days and then thrown into the river.
I was pointing out the house which belonged to Tasso's father." "Tasso! Hein! and which is the fair Eleonora's?" "Monsieur," answered Isaura, rather startled at that question, from a professed homme de lettres, "Eleonora did not live at Sorrento." "Tant pis pour Sorrente," said the homme de lettres, carelessly. "No one would care for Tasso if it were not for Eleonora."
He placed a sixpence in my palm, glancing about him on every side as he did so, like a conspirator. "What am I to buy with it?" I asked, much puzzled, and suspecting tobacco. Tant Mettie declared he smoked too much for a church elder. He put his finger to his lips, nodded, and peered round. "Lollipops for Sannie," he whispered low, at last, with a guilty smile.
On a chair sat her mild young husband nursing the baby a pudding-faced, weak-eyed child. "You take it and get into the cart with it," said Tant Sannie. "What do you want here, listening to our woman's talk?" The young man arose, and meekly went out with the baby. "I'm very glad you are going to be married, my child," said Tant Sannie, as she drained the last drop from her coffee cup.
"I suppose I should have gone allowed myself to be dismissed as a boy from school. 'I have played with you; you have amused me; you no longer do so. Adieu! So she would have said to me, if not in words, by implication. No, merci," he broke off angrily. "Tant s'en faut! I, too, shall have something to say and soon to-night !" He made a swift gesture, threw his cigar into the sea and walked off.
"I am bewildered, I am bewildered," said the German, standing before her and raising his hand to his forehead; "I I do not understand." "Ask him, ask him?" cried Tant Sannie, pointing to Bonaparte; "he knows. You thought he could not make me understand, but he did, he did, you old fool! I know enough English for that.
"Nineteen, weak eyes, white hair, little round nose," said the maid. "Then it's he! then it's he!" said Tant Sannie triumphantly; "little Piet Vander Walt, whose wife died last month two farms, twelve thousand sheep. I've not seen him, but my sister-in-law told me about him, and I dreamed about him last night."
Perhaps it is because I am only a woman; but I do love you as much as I can." Now the Kaffer maids were coming from the huts. He kissed her again, eyes and mouth and hands, and left her. Tant Sannie was well satisfied when told of the betrothment.
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