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But, seriously, he ended, we would find some way of keeping them from committing hari-kari and, meanwhile, we would leave them in peace, and stroll along toward breakfast. At that moment, Sailor rubbed his head against my knee. "Ah!" said the "King," "the heroic canine! He, of course, must not be left behind.
"You're an official, a diplomat; you mustn't carry a gun." "It's all very fine, but it was a close shave for both of us. You've got an object want to get something out of it. But what do I get for my money?" "Perhaps the peace of Europe. Perhaps a page of reminiscences for the 'New York World'. Perhaps some limelight chapters of Egyptian history. Perhaps a little hari-kari.
"You're an official, a diplomat; you mustn't carry a gun." "It's all very fine, but it was a close shave for both of us. You've got an object want to get something out of it. But what do I get for my money?" "Perhaps the peace of Europe. Perhaps a page of reminiscences for the 'New York World'. Perhaps some limelight chapters of Egyptian history. Perhaps a little hari-kari.
Further, so far, none of the vestiges of those that have committed the form of hari-kari, fashionable among the species, has been observed to behave in any way unbecoming the shyest, most retiring and most sensitive of creatures. The brittle star discards its limbs, or the best part of them, in the meekest manner possible.
Mobs have seldom been tempted, even had a chance to go wrong, that they have not gone wrong. The "people" is a fetish. It was the people, misled, who precipitated the South into the madness of secession and the ruin of a hopelessly unequal war of sections. It was the people backing if not compelling the Kaiser, who committed hari-kari for themselves and their empire in Germany.
She was about to give herself to the black dwarf Goliath. She was about to commit sexual hari-kari. "I watched her hands remove his clothes, his red jacket, his fine shirt. He jumped up and down like a distracted child, his own hands bewildered with too many activities. They fondled her, they tugged at his trousers. They became insane and flapped at his sides.
They will put me in prison. It will be suggest to me, because I am of daimio blood" Tamada drew himself up slightly as he claimed his nobility "that I make hari-kari. That I do not wish. I am Progressive. I much rather cook on board Karluk and get my share of gold." Lund surveyed him moodily, half convinced. The girl was all eager approval. "What is your plan, Tamada?"
Look a man calmly through the very centre of his pupils and ask him for anything with a tone implying entire conviction that he will grant it, and he will very commonly consent to the thing asked, were it to commit hari-kari. The Captain acceded to my postulate, and accepted my friend as a corollary.
Mulcahy for some weeks understood very little of anything at all save that ever at his elbow, in camp, or at parade, stood two big men with soft voices adjuring him to commit hari-kari lest a worse thing should happen to die for the honour of the regiment in decency among the nearest knives. But Mulcahy dreaded death.
"Alliance offensive and defensive," said he, laughing; "war to the knife on Ratcliffe. We will have his scalp if necessary, but I rather think he will soon commit hari-kari himself if we leave him alone."
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