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At Acre he had lost nearly 5,000 men in killed, wounded, and plague-stricken, though he falsely reported to the Directory that his losses during the whole expedition did not exceed 1,500 men: and during the terrible retreat to Jaffa he was shocked, not only by occasional suicides of soldiers in his presence, but by the utter callousness of officers and men to the claims of the sick and wounded.
"There are one or two in the company we could well dispense with." Jeanne's eyes flashed at his callousness, but he did not notice. "There are some here that Legrand ought not to have taken," the Abbé went on. "But they pay." "Ah, mademoiselle, you have hit it. They pay, and this fellow Legrand is satisfied. He has no sense of the fitness of things, yet this house has the name of being exclusive."
I can hardly blame her because while they are only little children their callousness is positively diabolical." Josie permitted herself the slight revenge of sprinkling a little extra pepper on her master's English mutton chop. "Very imprudent of me, but I hope he will sneeze his handsome nose off," she said, giving the pepper box another shake. She had her wish.
After a hot bath and a good tiffin I retired gratefully to bed, but, such is the callousness of human nature, only to be routed out at three o'clock to play in a football match, which, the Fates be praised, our side lost. Nan = South. King = Capital City. Of the three routes to China: 1. The overland, by rail through Europe and Siberia;
"And if entrapped, what then?" "Then they would kill her with as little compunction as they would a fly," he said. "Ah! you do not know the callousness of those people. I only hope and pray that she may have escaped and is in hiding somewhere, and will arrive unexpectedly and give me a startling surprise. She delights in startling me," he added with a laugh.
There was an angry gleam in the hunter's eye, but he turned on his heel and entered the steerage companion-way, where he remained, looking upward. All hands were on deck now, and all eyes were aloft, where a human life was at grapples with death. The callousness of these men, to whom industrial organization gave control of the lives of other men, was appalling.
Sally rose, moved softly and solemnly a step or two, and stood before Tracy his head came slowly up, his meek eyes met her intense ones then she finished with deep impressiveness " named Spinal Meningitis Snodgrass!" Tracy merely exhibited signs of increased fatigue. The girl was outraged by this iron indifference and callousness, and cried out "What are you made of?" "I? Why?"
Agnes, who was moved by the news out of all her ordinary sangfroid, was outraged by what seemed to her Rose's callousness. She wrote a letter to Catherine, which Catherine put among her treasures, so strangely unlike it was to the quiet indifferent Agnes of every day.
He had felt his eyes moist when she wept. He recoiled from the cruelty and the callousness that, without the slightest symptom of sympathy, could leave a young girl who had been labouring for their amusement, and who was suffering for her trial. He got on the stage, ran behind the scenes, and asked for Mlle. Flora. They pointed to a door; he requested permission to enter.
Simple and innocent vulgarity is merely an untrained and undeveloped bluntness of body and mind; but in true inbred vulgarity, there is a dreadful callousness, which, in extremity, becomes capable of every sort of bestial habit and crime, without fear, without pleasure, without horror, and without pity.
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