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They go about doing lots of good to the trees and flowers which couldnt grow without water, and we mustn't fuss cause there is always sun somewhere and its a cumfert to no it wont rain all the time. When the storm is over the raindrop faries strech a net of red and blue and green and yellow &C akros the sky which means it wont rain any more until the next time. Thats the way with huming beings.
Of course, as a good citizen, I didnt send American money abroad, content to purchase Rembrandts, Botticellis, Titians or El Grecos; or when I couldnt find masterpieces holding a stable price on the world market, to change my dollars into some of the gold from Fort Knox, now only a useless bulk of heavy metal. My first thought was Miss Francis.
What on earth Consolidated Pemmican could do with a musician and a draftevader as generalmanager even if the title, as it must be, were purely honorary I couldnt imagine. I had been long up, shaved and breakfasted and had attended to my correspondence, before the telephone rang and George Thario announced himself at my disposal. He was what people call a handsome young man.
In spite of all he'd said I couldnt help but believe Mr Le ffaçasé realized my true worth or why did he confer on me what was practically a promotion?
I wont marry her." "I wish you hadnt told me about it." "Well, Marian, I couldnt help it. I know, of course, that you only wanted to make us all happy; but you nursed this match and kept it in Constance's mind as much as you could. Besides though it was not your fault that mistake about Conolly was too serious not to explain. Dont be downcast: I am not blaming you a bit."
But here I was without a financial resource couldnt hire a ditchdigger, much less the highpriced talent I needed and someone else might get a brainstorm when he saw the lawn and beat me to it. I visioned myself cheated of my million....
I suppose it is because I am in the wrong. I deceived him about the engagement." "Bosh! You didnt tell him because you knew you couldnt trust him; and now you see how right you were." "Even so, Nelly, I must not forget all his past care of me." "What care has he ever taken of you?
After the last experiment there can be no question as to the outcome. An hour ago I would have written that it was deplorable this outcome couldnt be achieved before the latest victory of the Grass. Now I begin to believe it may be a lucky delay. November 4: What meaning have dates now? We shall have to have a new calendar Before the Grass and After the Grass.
Manys de time he raised so much cotton dat dem big steamers just couldnt carry it all down to N'Awlins in one year. But den along came de Civil War an' we didn't raise nothin' fo' several years. Why? Becase most uf us jined the Confederate Army in Colonel Ogburn's regiment as servants and bodyguards. An' let me tell yo' somethin', whitefolks. Dere never wuz a war like dis war.
What they have in mind I cannot guess; they can't fly over the grass any more than we can as long as they want to conciliate world opinion and I doubt if they can tunnel under it, but that they intend to do something is beyond question." Often the obvious course is the surprising one; since the Russians couldnt go over or under the grass they decided to march on top of it.
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