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Updated: May 16, 2025
He would light a cigar. Tobacco blunts all ills, even ennui. Putting his hand in his pocket for a cigar, it ran against a hard, square substance. What is this? oh! the book mephisto had sold him.
This did not arise from the actual fact that those people originated in another continent. I had met Americans before. And the Blunts were Americans. But so little! That was the trouble. Captain Blunt might have been a Frenchman as far as languages, tones, and manners went. But you could not have mistaken him for one. . . . Why? You couldn’t tell. It was something indefinite.
Providence always looks out for little things like that. It uses its tools before it blunts them. Then Opdyke had gone back again into the vein, to see if he could make up his mind, at a superficial glance, concerning the extent of the damage and the best chances for repairing it. It was then that he found one more miner, wedged between the loosened timbers of the shoring.
"You are in error, monsieur l'intendant, I did not at all come for the purpose of relating that to you." "It is an exploit, nevertheless." "Oh!" said the musketeer carelessly, "constant habit blunts the mind." "To what do I owe the honor of your visit, then?" "Simply to this: the king ordered me to come to you."
The mountaineers may be loyal to their friends, but it is to conceal crime." "Illicit stilling seems to be regarded like smuggling," said John. "The government is fair game." "Whisky stunts the growth of children, and blunts the morals of youth, and makes murderers of men," went on the old lady, disregarding John's interruption, and sitting with expressive straightness.
Mere alms-giving is demoralizing for the opposite reason. It blunts the moral feelings, lowers the self-respect, and fosters inactivity and idleness, opening the way for vice to come in and sweep away all the foundations of integrity. Now, true charity to the poor is for us to help them to help themselves.
It is true that habit soon blunts such impressions; in half in hour we begin to be more or less indifferent to all that is going on around us: but an ordinary character never attains to complete coolness and the natural elasticity of mind; and so we perceive that here again ordinary qualities will not suffice a thing which gains truth, the wider the sphere of activity which is to be filled.
Theirs, however, was not that unloving severity which blunts the spirit of a child, and leads to artfulness and deceit.
But there is nothing that blunts the sense of humor more quickly than a few months of one-night stands. Even O. Henry could have seen nothing funny about that room. The bed was of green enamel, with fly-specked gold trimmings. It looked like a huge frog. The wall-paper was a crime. It represented an army of tan mustard plasters climbing up a chocolate-fudge wall.
There was all the news to tell, the harmless gossip of daily life, which Edith had a rare faculty of making dramatically entertaining, with her insight and her feeling for comedy. There had been a musicale at the Blunts' oh, strictly amateur and Edith ran to the piano and imitated the singers and took off the players, until Jack declared that it beat the Conventional Club out of sight.
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