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From childhood she developed a personality which charmed all with whom she came in contact. Persons of both sexes, young and old, the sober and the gay, alike fell under the influence of her magnetic power.
"Good." "No, it's bad. Will's a friend of mine. I hate to see him squandered on a woman. However, I did better than that." "How so?" As I spoke there loomed out of the darkness just ahead of us eight men surrounding something on the track, their rifles sticking up above their shoulders. "I've found eight men with rifles all alike that fit the ammunition in the boxes.
"They're all alike as two pears only some of 'em are green, and the others a different colour." "That's your business," said Norton summing up; "now what's the good of it, Dick?" "Fun. What's the good of anything?" "To be sure," said the Judge. "Julie Simpson?" But Julie wriggled and simpered, and could not be got to express herself otherwise.
The road wound along the brow of a precipice, and on one side was upheld by a foundation of logs, piled one upon the other, while a narrow excavation in the mountain in the opposite direction had made a passage of sufficient width for the ordinary traveling of that day. But logs, excavation, and everything that did not reach several feet above the earth lay alike buried beneath the snow.
Prussia being the victor, the rights of Denmark and the claims of the Duke of Augustenburg alike were quietly laid aside and the matter settled by the absorption of the provinces into the German empire, Denmark being left to thank God that Bismarck did not decide to take the rest.
But are not we, men, thy favourite children? The woman frowned slightly. 'All creatures are my children, she pronounced, 'and I care for them alike, and all alike I destroy. 'But right ... reason ... justice ... I faltered again. 'Those are men's words, I heard the iron voice saying. 'I know not right nor wrong.... Reason is no law for me and what is justice?
Seven days shalt thou wrestle with thy soul; seven nights shall evil haunt thee, and how thou shalt come forth from that struggle no man may know." A week passed, and another Sunday came, a Sunday so still and hot and moist that steam seemed to rise from the heavy trees, an idle day for master and servant alike. A hush was in the air, and a presage of we knew not what.
At this instant an explosion louder than the loudest thunder shook the air; the rent and torn up ramparts sprang into the sky; the conquering and the conquered were alike the victims; for one of the greatest magazines had been ignited by a shell; the black smoke, streaked with a lurid flame, hung above the dead and the dying.
To Bazarov, women were all alike, and valuable for only one thing; he had told this very woman that people were like trees in a forest; no botanist would think of studying an individual birch tree. Why, then, should this entirely unimportant individual woman change his whole nature, paralyse all his ambitions, ruin all the cheerful energy of his active mind?
He that is emancipate thinks, this transitory organism can never make me liable to joy and grief and the other attributes inhering to it: nor can there be, in my case, anything like death and birth: and, further, when Brahman, which hath no opposing force to contend against and which is alike in all times and all places, constitutes the resting-place of both realities and unrealities, how can emancipation be mine?
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