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Madame Martin replied that she knew no serious reason why the earth and humanity should not be annihilated at once. Old Lagrange exclaimed with profound sincerity that he hoped the cataclysm would come as late as possible. She looked at him. His bald head could boast only a few hairs dyed black.
How to describe in a volume like this, now near its end, that terrible state of coma that approaching cataclysm, in which all things, social, civil, and military were about to disappear!
His voice was a mere wheeze, issuing from a cataclysm of agonized mirth. "And so you've come to it at last!" he managed to articulate. "Come to what?" inquired Harboro. His level glance was disconcerting. Peterson was on the defensive immediately. "You used not to care for women or you claimed you didn't." "Oh! I didn't understand. I used not to care for a certain class of women. I don't yet."
Our plan, so generous, so liberal, so high-minded in many ways, has failed to produce the results we desired, while it has worked itself out to the point of menace. It is for us to see these facts clearly, and so to act, and so promptly, that we may not have to await the destroying force of cataclysm for the correction of our errors.
There were provisions only for two days, and the authorities were compelled to apply to Belgium for relief; all supplies now came from their neighbors across the frontier, whence the customs guards had disappeared, swept away like all else in the general cataclysm.
At no stage of the development was there any general cataclysm such as had followed the dissolution of the Frankish Empire, and was to follow the advent of Napoleon.
There was nothing in his whole history to give him an understanding of such feelings as these. Can a man be seized as it were by the hair, and swung up on the slopes of paradise or down the steeps of hell without a forewarning, without the chance even to say whether he wished such a cataclysm in his life or no? He, Orlando Brotherson, had never thought much of love.
How bitterly she had been weeping Medius indeed could not know; he ascribed her altered appearance to fear of the approaching cataclysm and was happy to be able to tell her, in all good faith, that the danger was as good as over. Posidonius, the Magian, had been to see him, and had completely reassured him.
I have had a few little accidents with some of the things in the room and I have cut my hand. I want you to tell the manager and see that they are properly charged for on the bill.... Thank you." The head chambermaid was left to consider the accidents. Benham's things were all packed up and the room had an air of having been straightened up neatly and methodically after a destructive cataclysm.
The eternal loss of this picture meant nothing to her. But the destruction of her own recorded smiles and tears and the pretty twistings and turnings of her young body that was cataclysm. She was like everybody else, in that no multiplication of other people's torments could be so vivid as the catching of her own thumb in a door. Kedzie was too crushed to weep.
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