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No echoes of "The Sunshine of Your Smile" cursed his memory that lover's little memory fresh washed in heliotrope and when his mother came to his door, after he got home, and asked him if he'd had "a nice time at the party," he said: "Just glorious!" and believed it.
He cursed himself for that touch of sentiment he called it cowardice which the other night, after the ball, had prompted him to write to Crystal. But for that voluntary confession he thought she could never have despised him. And following up the train of his own thoughts, and realising that these had not been spoken aloud, he suddenly called out abruptly: "Is it because of my letter, Crystal?"
Her hard-working life had brought her in contact with people, and things, and events, and had kept her young. "Thank fortune!" Mrs. McChesney often said, "that I wasn't cursed with a life of ease. These massage-at-ten-fitting-at-eleven-bridge-at-one women always look such hags at thirty-five." But repetition will ruin the rarest of jokes.
"Thine oracle, in vain to be, Oh, wherefore am I thus consigned, With eyes that every truth must see, Lone in the city of the blind? Cursed with the anguish of a power To view the fates I may not thrall, The hovering tempest still must lower, The horror must befall! Boots it th veil to lift, and give To sight the frowning fates beneath?
The treasure is destroyed but I remain General of the Order. Oh! I suffer. What a furnace!" he added, writhing in agony. "Since I entered this cursed house, I know not what ails me. If I had not lived on roots water bread which I go myself to buy I should think I was poisoned for I triumph and Cardinal Malipieri has long arms.
Yes, he would go at once, and forget the whole cursed stuff said "cursed stuff" being the affectionate lines which continued to haunt him after the manner of the mind-destroying craze which Mark Twain inflicted on a later generation, "Punch, brothers, punch with care;" for as he walked down the street the words kept time to his feet, the train bells echoed them, and it was those very words that pealed a warning at the crossing.
Oh, luck, luck!" he went on, beginning to deal, in the hope of raising a quarrel. "Here is the cursed nine upon which, the other night, I lost everything. All along I knew that I should lose my money. Said I to myself: 'The devil take you, you false, accursed card!"
He looked up, turning his eyes on me with an appeal which went to my heart. "They've riddled my leg with their cursed heathenish small shot, curse them! If it had been a Christian bullet, now, I shouldn't ha' minded so much. Give me a hand, my boy, and I'll see if I can stand up." I put my arms round him and lifted him partly from the ground, while he clutched at me with both hands.
While he lives, and while either the King or the Queen lives, it is not likely that we shall ever again exercise our elective franchise, unless there should be a dispute between the Court and the Parliament. The more profuse and obsequious a Parliament is, the less likely it is to give offence to the Court. The worse our representatives, therefore, the longer we are likely to be cursed with them.
They were to be outcasts, beggars on the highways. And that is what the Lady Om and I became, beggars on the highways. Forty long years of persecution followed, for Chong Mong-ju's hatred of the Lady Om and me was deathless. Worse luck, he was favoured with long life as well as were we cursed with it. I have said the Lady Om was a wonder of a woman.
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