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"I've no objection, sergeant. Such a man as Slade cumbers the earth. Besides, he'll do everything he can now to kill us." The sergeant knelt, carbine raised, and waited for the ray of moonlight. He was a dead shot, and he believed that he would not miss, but when the ray came at last Slade was not there. Whitley uttered a low exclamation of disgust.
The world was full of eyes Mrs Ford's saying 'Go! Ogden's saying 'Fool! the portrait saying 'Idiot! and, finally, the eyes of this wonderfully handsome girl, large, grey, cool, amused, and contemptuous saying so it seemed to him in that feverish moment 'Who is this curious pink person who cumbers the ground before me? 'I I beg your pardon. he repeated.
"'This life, said I at last, 'is hell: this is the air those are the sounds of the bottomless pit! I have a right to deliver myself from it if I can. The sufferings of this mortal state will leave me with the heavy flesh that now cumbers my soul. Of the fanatic's burning eternity I have no fear: there is not a future state worse than this present one let me break away, and go home to God!
"That we have escaped with our lives is a mercy, when we reflect what atrocious villains are those into whose hands we fell, and from whom you have so nobly rescued us. That captain the sooner you hang him at your yard-arm the better. He cumbers the earth. It is a disgrace to humanity to allow him to live."
He threw back his lofty head in anger or disdain. "I will not accept groundless compassion, even from you. Do not deceive yourself. I have learned how to bear my burden; it scarcely cumbers me now. It has fretted me more in the last three weeks than it has done for years.
It may seem a sad waste of good timber, but it is the least expensive way of getting rid of what cumbers the ground; besides which, the ashes very much assist to fertilise it. The Ashtons, however, found that they could dispose of theirs at the newly-erected saw-mills, if they could get the logs there.
His bones are laid with those of the wisest and mightiest of the land; the gratitude of monarchs cumbers the earth with his sepulchral honors; and his memory is consecrated in the most eloquent pages of the history not only of his own country, but of that which sent him out of existence.
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