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He would recognise that many things which are theoretically desirable are unattainable; and that many legislative measures which could perfectly well be enforced would be barred by the fact that they would entail deplorable unintended consequences.
'I do not find myself fit for new duties, urged Mr Harding. 'New duties! what duties? said the archdeacon, with unintended sarcasm. 'Oh, papa, said Mrs Grantly, 'nothing can be easier that what a dean has to do. Surely you are more active than Dr Trefoil. 'He won't have half as much to do as at present, said Dr Grantly. 'Did you see what the Jupiter said the other day about young men?
This could not be without its influence on the manners of the nation, and the scholars who had been the first to show the way were the first to deplore the pell-mell assimilation of Italian manners and vices, which was the unintended result of the inroad on insularity which had already begun. They saw the danger ahead, and they laboured to meet it as it came.
Yet as they were always patients who had suffered from insomnia, I was pleased with this unintended effect of my writings. But in most cases a real cure demands heterosuggestion. There is room for any variety of effects; often they enter immediately. The other day I gave sleep suggestion to a young woman who had overworked herself in literary production.
"I do not find myself fit for new duties," urged Mr. Harding. "New duties! What duties?" said the archdeacon with unintended sarcasm. "Oh, Papa," said Mrs. Grantly, "nothing can be easier than what a dean has to do. Surely you are more active than Dr. Trefoil." "He won't have half as much to do as he has at present," said Dr. Grantly.
Even this small and wholly unintended affront worked in the poor, misjudging victim of morbid self-esteem, as a cinder in the eye will torture and blind the sufferer to all the landscape. Boone mingled no more with the Democrats.
Perhaps, if America's wage earners were cemented together by as strong a class consciousness as the laboring classes of Europe, such might have been the case. But America's labor movement lacked the unintended aid which the sister movements in Europe derived from a caste system of society and political oppression.
The unintended truth went home. She winced, even as she responded with that quaint note in her voice which gave humour to her speech. "Yes, excommunication," she replied; "but why an enemy? Do we not need to excommunicate our friends sometimes?" "That is a hard saying," he answered soberly. Tears sprang to her eyes, but she mastered herself, and brought the crisis abruptly.
The letter in their minds forces them to speak words which begin with it. If they start at a C, we hear “Come, Beulah,” if at a T, “Try, Beulah,” if at an S, “See, Beulah.” It is very hard to protect ourselves against such unintended and unnoticed helps. It is still more difficult to keep the failures in mind.
Wall made eyes at the inquirer, Estelle and Cecile began to speak but deferred to each other, and Camille, putting on a deadly exhaustion, whined as she tottered to her smiling guardian, "Kiss your sweet baby good-night, auntie dear, and" with a hand reached out to Estelle "make Naughty come, too." She turned to say good-night to Cecile but spoiled her kiss with an unintended laugh.
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