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The association of colors was very artistic, and even the line of mutton carcasses overhead, with each a brace of grouse or half a dozen quail in its embrace, and flanked with long sides of beef at the four ends of the line, was picturesque, though the sight of the carnage at the provision-stores here would always be dreadful to an Altrurian; in the great markets it is intolerable.
I have been here now for several seasons, and this is the first time I have been inside a farmer's house." "Is it possible!" cried the Altrurian, with an air of utter astonishment; and, when I found the fact appeared so singular to him, I began to be rather proud of its singularity.
But the corruption even of these methods was far surpassed when the era of consolidation came, and the necessity for statutes and verdicts and decisions became more stringent. Then we had such a burlesque of " "Look here!" a sharp, nasal voice snarled across the rich, full pipe of the Altrurian, and we all instantly looked there.
I suppose you will laugh at this, Dolly, and at first I confess that there was enough of the old American in me to be shocked at the idea of a French chef marrying an Altrurian lady who could trace her descent to the first Altrurian president of the Commonwealth, and who is universally loved and honored.
It's a great event for her, your coming here. It is for all of us. We're glad to have you." "And I'm glad to be here," said the Altrurian, as simply as the other.
"Really, Mrs. Makely, I think I shall have to give him back to you," I said. The lady laughed. "I am not sure that I want him back." "Oh yes," the Altrurian entreated, with unwonted perception of the humor. "I know that I must be very trying with my questions; but do not abandon me to the solitude of my own conjectures. They are dreadful!" "Well, I won't," said the lady, with another laugh.
We talked at the Altrurian, but he did not seem to hear us. At last he asked, with a faint sigh: "Then, in your conditions, a kindly impulse to aid one who needs your help is something to be guarded against as possibly pernicious?" "Exactly," I said. "And now you see what difficulties beset us in dealing with the problem of poverty.
There may be working-men willing to remain so for other working-men's sake, but I have never met any perhaps because the working-man never goes into society." The unfailing question of the Altrurian broke the silence which ensued: "Are there many of your working-men who are intelligent and agreeable of the type you mentioned a moment since?"
"Well, now, I am sure," she said to the Altrurian, as we began the long ascent of the Loop road, "you must allow that you have seen some very original characters. But how warped people get living alone so much! That is the great drawback of the country. Mrs.
He asked for an early opportunity of addressing the village Assembly and explaining this delightful circumstance in public, and he profited by the occasion to embrace the first Altrurian we met and kiss him on both cheeks.
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