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Of the latter of those dear parents I was bereft in my infancy; and, as my father was a soldier in a foreign clime, thus was I thrown on the world's tempestuous ocean, to buffet with the waves of care, and to encounter the breakers of want. At the death of my poor mother I was left, with my elder brother, in utter destitution.
Q. saw, at once, that the utter destitution of the family, and the need of everything, would prevent the man returning the money, however much he might wish to, and so refused to lend it. The case was urged, but without avail; and the missionary sent the man away, promising to see him again that night or on Monday.
Would any thing, with such a principle in it, or rather with such a destitution of all principle, be fit to be called a government? No, Sir. It should not be denominated a Constitution. It should be called, rather, a collection of topics for everlasting controversy; heads of debate for a disputatious people. It would not be a government.
In place of them we need a system which will hold in cheek men's predatory impulses, and will diminish the economic injustice that allows some to be rich in idleness while others are poor in spite of unremitting labor; but above all we need a system which will destroy the tyranny of the employer, by making men at the same time secure against destitution and able to find scope for individual initiative in the control of the industry by which they live.
"Look! a golden cave!" she exclaimed, pointing eagerly to a grassy spot which was canopied by feathery palms, and half enclosed by coral rocks, where was a cavern into which the sinking sun streamed at the moment with wonderful intensity. Their home for that night obviously lay before them, but when they entered it and sat down, their destitution became sadly apparent.
"You know what I mean," groaned Anthony, with no heart for trifling. "For the matter of that, are n't you rich yourself?" Miss Sandus retorted. "Rich!" he cried. "I totter on the brink of destitution." "Oh?" she murmured. "I 'd imagined you were by way of being rather an extensive land owner." "So I am," said he.
He had also lost the offices of Serjeant-at-arms, Lieutenant of Ordnance, and Surveyor of the Mews, which he had held under the king; in a word, he found himself reduced to a state of utter destitution.
She extinguished the brazier; the door was open, the air rushed in, and the exile was saved. Then, when Lisbeth had put him to bed like a patient, and he was asleep, she could detect the motives of his suicide in the destitution of the rooms, where there was nothing whatever but a wretched table, the camp-bed, and two chairs.
Taking, as it did, all that she could earn to keep herself and children in comfort during the winter, she had nothing laid up for a time of more pressing need; and, as for the last few weeks, she had earned so little as to have barely enough for necessaries, when helplessness came, she was in utter destitution, Her wood was just out, except a few hard, knotted logs; her flour was out, and her money gone.
Oh, God! that he should be far away, and I be here gazing on the dead body of my child dead through my neglect to procure her proper medical attendance; dead through the destitution of her mother." "Nebber mind, missis," observed the old negro soothingly, "De chile is gone to heaben, whar it wont suffer any more." "Peace!" exclaimed Mrs. Wentworth passionately. "Do not talk to me of Heaven.
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