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Then I told her all that I knew myself, for why my mistress had treated me so I could not tell. When I had finished, she said, "Now, Susan, you will find the advantage of a good character; if I did not believe that you would starve sooner than steal or tell a falsehood, I should be afraid about you now; but as it is, I do not feel uneasy, for I believe that innocence always prevails.
"Unhappiness is considered a disease with us," Almos rejoined. "It is heard of, but very rarely, and is treated as a serious malady. But you will understand these things better as you gradually become acquainted with the conditions here. You must remember that you are in the position of a man over fifteen hundred years in advance of his day.
Hanmer has put out his pipe, you see, and the window is open." Lady Caroline carried an eyeglass with a long handle of tortoise-shell. Through it she treated Dicky to a deliberate and disconcerting scrutiny, and lowered it to turn and ask Mrs. Harry, "You permit him to call you 'Aunt Sarah'?" Mrs. Harry laughed.
Then raising her voice as though to attract the attention of some one within the house, she shouted, in satirical language, "It's little me husband cares about me, or he'd niver stand by and see me treated thus, and I niver making the least complaint in the world. It's mighty fine husbands there is in the world now, and it's little use they are to us fable females."
They were inhabited by a race who neither cultivated the earth nor cared for the enjoyments which industry procures. The women, although otherwise treated with affection, and even delicacy of respect, discharged all the absolutely necessary domestic labour.
Then she put her hand on Mr. James's shoulder and shook him; now that her sexual feelings were focussed on one man she treated all other men with a sexless familiarity that to those who did not understand might have seemed shameless and a little mad. "Am I beautiful?" she asked searchingly. "How many times do you want me to say it?" he said. "But how beautiful?" she pursued.
In short, a poor man is looked upon, both by friends and relations, as a stranger. You know, mother, how I have treated my friends for this year past; I have entertained them with all imaginable generosity, till I have spent all my money, and now they have left me, when they suppose I can treat them no longer.
No, no, my boy; that would be simply throwing away our lives. There is nothing for it, but to wait quietly, till either Wolfe takes Quebec, or you are exchanged." The prisoners were treated with courtesy by the French officers, and comfortable meals were provided.
Among the competitors less favourably treated, we perceive one of the greatest writers whom France has produced; the author of the Henriade.
But from amid a chaos of confusion and recrimination, four things stand out clearly: he came upon the scene too late; he worked earnestly for peace for two years; the part that he personally took in the war was strikingly successful; he was scurvily treated by the Colonial Office. He was the last Viceroy who took an active and distinct share in the government of the country.
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