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Yet it may be easily shown that the poet has, in his work, displayed more enlightened views. He wishes to show that the conflict of good and evil in this world can only take place by the permission of Providence, which converts the curse that individual mortals draw down on their heads into a blessing to others. An accurate scale is followed in the retaliation.
She crept to the door and opened it, her practised hand recognizing the fastenings in the dark. The light from the street-lamp just outside fell on Bertie's white face. "What luck?" she asked in a whisper. "Curse the luck!" he answered: "everything went against me from first to last." "I told you so," she whispered, closing the door. "Didn't I say that?"
But at such a time it has always come to my mind that I too might have such a son, who would cast into his father's teeth that he was a coward and a selfish man; that he sacrificed a life for his illusive hopes. "No! I won't do it. I won't do it. I am the last of the Orzos. With me this damned family will die out. My fathers were cowards and rascals. I do not want anybody to curse my memory."
He looked up at Lambert, half choked on the bone of his rage. "I'll die before I'll do it!" he declared with a curse. Lambert beat down the defiant, red-balled glowering eyes with one brief, straight look.
Travilla," Elsie replied in a tone of deep solemnity, "it is written, 'Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them; that is in the Bible; and the catechism says: 'Every sin deserveth the wrath and curse of God! And oh! Mr.
The curse had reached him in addition to the long, sad nose and the bandy legs. The sense of enjoyment was never to be his. The greed of gain gain of any sort filled his heart, and ennui secretly nestling in his soul said: "Thou shalt possess, but not enjoy." He was conscious of this voice, but did not understand it then. He only burned to possess; looking to possession to provide enjoyment.
A curse upon Long Robin, say I, for keeping it hid all these years! It was a scurvy trick! and Miriam was privy to it. I will raise no hand to help her. She may die with her vow unfulfilled for all I care. Had she but acted fairly by us, then would we have given yon lad up to her tender mercies; but not now not now!" A murmur of assent ran through the whole party.
"To him and your father I owe as deep a curse as ever fell on the heart of man. I have lived to be above even Lord Warwick's insult. Yet young, I stand amongst the warriors and peers of England with a crest as haught and a scutcheon as stainless as the best. I have drunk deep of the world's pleasures.
So the vengeful feeling went right out of my heart, and I begged him to stay, and said I forgave him everything. But he wouldn't. He said he would live to be avenged; said he would make our lives a curse to us. But he can't, can he, dear?" "Never in this world, my Rosannah!"
They are content with small gains, and in an old-fashioned way study rather to moderate their outlays than to increase their profits. Naturally as they own in common they are not in haste to be rich. Those of them who have suffered from debt feel it to be both a danger and a curse. None of the communes make the acquisition of wealth a leading object of life.
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