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But I am only a woman, and so well, that is the kind of man I should like to marry." "A minister may be all these things," said Gavin, breathlessly. "The man I could love," Babbie went on, not heeding him, almost forgetting that he was there, "must not spend his days in idleness as the men I know do." "I do not." "He must be brave, no mere worker among others, but a leader of men."
Was he not persuaded, that in "beseeching" them to be reconciled, he could speak "as though God did beseech" them by him, as one "in Christ's stead;" and that "in beseeching" them "not to receive the grace of God in vain," he was but "a worker together with God?" In this same spirit may we, and must we seek to do good to others.
He could not understand her. He did not try. He lay with closed eyes, tired, purposeless. The sweet sea wind touched his cheek, white with the indoor pallor of the desk worker. The sound of the sea exalted him. The beautiful clouds above him carried him back to boyhood. There were tears on his face as he looked up at her. "I'm forgetting!" he said, with a smile of exultation.
Louis XI., that indefatigable worker, who so largely began the demolition of the feudal edifice, continued by Richelieu and Louis XIV. for the profit of royalty, and finished by Mirabeau for the benefit of the people, Louis XI. had certainly made an effort to break this network of seignories which covered Paris, by throwing violently across them all two or three troops of general police.
My own work has been on a somewhat larger scale and on the other side of the Atlantic." "De odder side?" "I have done as much in London, as anywhere else," said Jimmy. "A great town, London, full of opportunities for the fine worker. Did you hear of the cracking of the New Asiatic Bank in Lombard Street?" "No, boss," whispered Spike. "Was dat you?" Jimmy laughed.
They pulled up at the door of the Bear and Key Hotel, and as the motor came to a standstill a man dressed in the costume of an ordinary worker on the oyster-beds came up, touched his sou'wester, and said: "Mr Lennard's car, gentlemen?" "Yes, I'm here," said Lennard, shortly; "we've just left the Emperor at Canterbury. How about those oysters?
The "gentleman" is above all things a fighter, a hunter, a fisher he preserves the three simplest and commonest barbaric functions. He is not a practiser of any civilised or civilising art a craftsman, a maker, a worker in metal, in stone, in textile fabrics, in pottery.
It can give the individual worker everything except the power to alter the State that is, his own status.
But only some sort of organized unity of social life can either do the work of an unit or hold the effective loyalty of the enlightened worker who does not merely shout with the throng. And so when you are really loyal to your country, your country does not mean to you merely the crowd, the mass of your separate fellow citizens.
The yelling of the freshmen became louder, for their crew was holding its own was beginning to gain. "That is the best freshman crew that ever appeared at Saltonstall," declared a spectator. "Every man seems to be a worker. There's no one shirking." "And look at the stroke oar," urged another. "That fellow is the winner!
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