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My neighbor becomes slightly insane, is very noisy and threatening; my wife and children, who are terrorized, wish him restrained; but his friends do not admit that he is insane, or, admitting his peculiarities, insist my family and I ought to put up with them; the man himself is quite sane enough to appreciate the discussion and object to any restraint. Now, who shall decide?
"Being what's called good is all very well if you're independent or if you've got a husband or a father to do life's dirty work for you or, perhaps, if you happen to be in some profession like preaching or teaching though I don't believe the so-called 'goodness' would let you get very far even as a preacher.
He says that Christianity has no creed; that this is the very point in which it is distinguished from other religions; that you will search the New Testament in vain for a creed; but that Scripture is full of principles. The view is very ingenious, and seemed to me true, when I read the book.
For the most important link in the whole chain of evidence is wanting, and that is the proof that A.B. was really dead. The evidence of ordinary observers on such a point as this is absolutely worthless. And, even medical evidence, unless the physician is a person of unusual knowledge and skill, may have little more value.
It is true we might have sounded our new harbour, before we had ventured out; but I cannot say for certain, whether we should or not; for I, for my part, had not the least suspicion of what our real case was; however, I say, perhaps, before we had weighed, we should have looked about us a little."
"She is beautiful; the most beautiful woman in the world, Miss Adair." "How fine! And, of course, she is a paragon of all the virtues? an angel without the extremely inconvenient wings?" "You have said it: and I have never doubted it from the moment I first laid eyes on her." "Better and better," she murmured. Then: "She has money?" "I suppose she has; yes, she certainly has money.
And as Warren was silent she went on with quavering vigor: "It is not for us to judge her husband's infirmities. She is his wife." "Oh, well, there's no use arguing it," the man said pleasantly after a sulphurous interval. "Fortunately for her, most people don't feel as you do."
"It is not of a separation that Florentin thinks," cried Phillis, "but of a flight." "And why not?" "Because only the guilty fly." "It is exactly the contrary.
If they had ever by such means been able to entrap an army, or to bring about the wholesale slaughter of our men, I could understand things a bit better; but they had little to gain and an awful lot to lose by such tactics. There is no slight risk attached to the act of firing on an advancing army treacherously under cover of the white flag.
Harkness was a hare-brained, irresponsible person, incapable of steadiness in thought or action, too weak to cherish actual hatred, too changeable to nurse a lasting grudge. It is with such frail instruments that prankish fate delights to work, and, although he never suspected it, the luxury of yielding to that sudden gust of passion cost Folsom dear.
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