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A clergyman, or a doctor, or a lawyer, feels himself no whit disgraced if he reaches the end of his worldly labours without special note or honour. But to a soldier or a sailor, such indifference to his merit is wormwood. It is the bane of the professions. Nine men out of ten who go into it must live discontented, and die disappointed. Captain Cuttwater had no idea that he was an old man.
"Mare!" exclaimed the incorrigible punster, delighted with my mistake: "I thought that you would have been better acquainted with your propria quoe maribus." "Humph!" said Wormwood, "when I look at you I am always at least reminded of the as in praoesenti!" Lord Vincent drew up and looked unutterable anger.
Angels' wings are in harmony with their dignity. Stella. True friendship should speak the truth. Tell me some bitter one. Drahomir. Very bitter? Stella. As wormwood or as is sometimes the case with life. Drahomir. Then you are kind to me. Stella. For what sin shall I begin penitence? Drahomir. For lack of friendship for me. Stella.
But the poor fellow tried in vain to drown his woe. The vodka stung his tongue like nettles, and tasted more bitter than wormwood. He flung the jug from him upon the ground. “You have sorrowed enough, Cossack,” growled a bass voice behind him. He looked round Basavriuk! Ugh, what a face!
To one ounce of best Peruvian bark, add two ounces of cloves powdered, and a half an ounce of cream of tartar; mix them well, and give two tea-spoonsful at a time every two hours: when clear of fever, begin at four in the morning, and give it until twelve at noon. Wormwood seed, a heaped tea-spoonful in a cup of water, as a dose, is also good.
To think that he who so prided himself on plainscraft should have been so utterly hoodwinked by Captain Differs, of all men, was worse to him than gall and wormwood, but he came now fairly snapping with righteous indignation, fresh from another study of the famous field over which he rode with the last man to part with Lieutenant Davies the night of the tragedy of Antelope Springs, Devers's long-missing sergeant, McGrath.
But one pound of the hony of sweet love, can easily balance a hundred weight of that terrible and bitter Wormwood.
"Perhaps you expect me to be pleased at such a shameful suspicion?" "No, not that; but at all events now you can tell me what has happened at our house since I left." "A pretty story that is! Why only to think of it makes my mouth as bitter, as if I were chewing wormwood." "You said I had been robbed." "Yes indeed: no one was ever so robbed before.
What made you a guardian, I'd like to know?" "Your father did," was the reply. "Oh, him!" said Joe, in a tone which indicated pronounced antipathy to his parent. "Do you know him? Are you one of his sort?" "Now don't try to be insulting, my boy, or I'll take you across my knee. We won't say nothing about where your father is, because in high society Wormwood Scrubbs isn't mentioned.
But there was another curiosity that interested me more deeply my grandfather, Alexander Loudon. In his time the old gentleman had been a working mason, and had risen from the ranks more, I think, by shrewdness than by merit. In his appearance, speech, and manners, he bore broad marks of his origin, which were gall and wormwood to my uncle Adam.
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