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Nor can the hand of man disturb the glorious timber round the house; for it is "ornamental," and therefore safe from the hands of the despoiler. Storms are gradually levelling the ancient beech and ash trees in the woods, but it will be many a long day before the hand of nature has marred the beauty of what has always seemed to me to be one of the fairest spots on earth.
I never look on a public-house without considering it as the abode of the evil genius of the neighbourhood; the despoiler of industry, the destroyer of domestic comfort; and heartily do I wish, that some means could be devised for abolishing these resorts of wickedness; that some legislative enactment may render it unlawful for any one to keep such places.
See here the master mind exulting in the conception, gestation, and birth of the Afrikaner Bond conspiracy; note the Hollander patriot's glitter of satisfaction at the vista of realizing the restoration of Holland to a position excelling its former glory, of a moribund language revived to significance, and of witnessing besides a sweet vendetta operated upon England, the old enemy and despoiler of his nation, to compass the humiliation and disintegration of the British Empire.
As I picked up the letters that had been scattered from the casket, she said, 'I cannot get that dreadful curse out of my head; to think that the children of the despoiler should be cursed by God, and cursed by your father, and yet they are as innocent as I am. 'Best to forget it, said I, standing still, for I dared not move towards the débris.
"I will not have the place all littered up with their pipes and power-plants. Look out there! Look at that! Has any one the right to come here and spoil such a lovely thing as that?" This is what it is to be the daughter of an artist. "And how about the other despoiler," I asked "the young man with the pneumatic pipe?" "The 'pneumatic pipe'!" she repeated. "'Pump, I mean.
His idol had not only been stolen from the altar, it had been sullied by the sacrifice; broken with remorseless hand, and thrust into dishonoured clay; mutilated, defamed; its very memory a thing of contempt to him who had ravished it from worship. The living Harley and the dead Nora both called aloud to their joint despoiler, "Restore what thou hast taken from us, or pay the forfeit!"
Did they overtake, overhaul, seize, or lay hands upon the despoiler? "'He escaped, says Ogden. 'And I was just reading in a paper to-day that the officers have tracked him down into this part of the country. It seems the bills the robber got were all the first issue of currency to the Second National Bank of Espinosa City.
She merely pushed the thing away, bending her head lower above her book pushed it away with a blind little hand, and with undiminished bravado her despoiler returned, scathless of heaven's vengeance, to his seat. "And you may remain half an hour after school. The A-class, ready for geography!" Thus, lightly did our ruler turn from tragedy to comedy.
You have forgiven me, father, and forgiven him, the despoiler of your tomb: you have removed the curse, and his child his innocent child is free. I replaced the coffin-lid, and screwing it down left the crypt, so buoyant and exhilarated that I stopped in the churchyard and asked myself: 'Do I, then, really believe that she was under a curse?
I knew that the loathing and the haughty scorn expressed her feeling towards the despoiler the father of her whose cause I might have to plead; and I began to wish from the bottom of my heart that I had not taken her into my confidence.
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