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"With such a confidence," said my wife, "one is richer than if he had the wealth of an Astor." "And with this great advantage," replied Mrs. Wallingford, "that he may enjoy the whole of his possessions. Moth and rust never corrupt them; and no man can take them away."
He had seen Scudder and told him what he wanted; and it seems that Scudder got active with one of these telephones as soon as he left. For in about an hour afterward there comes to our hotel some of these city rangers in everyday clothes that they call detectives, and marches the whole outfit of us to what they call a magistrate's court.
The whole remark was merely one of the usual conventional feelers to conversation, a kind of social preamble, quite common to our slangy camp intercourse.
After breakfast, I could not sit down by the fireside; indeed, a fire was scarce necessary; the sun drew me forth, and I walked all the morning about the moist lanes, delighting myself with the scent of earth. On my way home, I saw the first celandine. So, once more, the year has come full circle. And how quickly; alas, how quickly! Can it be a whole twelvemonth since the last spring?
I profess, Sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country.
The whole of the basement of the tower was taken up by a swimming pool and dressing rooms. The water was pumped in from the sea and could be heated by a system of steam pipes. The upper floors of the tower were given over to bedrooms, for J. P., for the major-domo and for several of the secretaries.
Then the whole superstructure of Pantheism falls along with the Idealism on which it depends; and it is found to be, not a solid and enduring system of truth, but a frail edifice, ingeniously constructed out of the mere abstractions of the human mind.
"It does that," said Bridget. "I guess it'll bake sponge cakes for lunch to say it feels glad." "Oh, goody!" said Margaret, as she ran to take off her big apron and wash her hands. The second lesson in Margaret's book really took her a whole month to learn perfectly, because there were so many things to remember.
You should not try to get even. Leave that to God." "No, no," said the chief. "If we do not pay back for the wrong done us, the tribe will not be afraid of us. They will do more bad things to us." "Yes, yes," shouted the warriors. They kept shouting and shaking their swords and guns. "Did the whole village hurt you? Did the whole village shoot the young man?
Rodin is of this tormented choir; he is master of its psychology. It may be the decadence, as any art is in decadence which stakes the parts against the whole.
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