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Doomer with something like sternness, "a man OUGHT to realise it. Every man ought to feel that at any moment, one can't tell when, day or night, he may be called upon to meet his," Mr. Doomer paused here as if seeking a phrase "to meet his Financial Obligations, face to face. At any time, sir, he may be hurried before the Judge, or rather his estate may be, before the Judge of the probate court.
He appears under various disguises and names, but usually as a one-eyed old man, cowled and hooded; sometimes with another, bald and ragged, as before the battle Hadding won; once as "Hroptr", a huge man skilled in leechcraft, to Ragnar's son Sigfrid. Often he is a helper in battle or doomer of feymen. As "Lysir", a rover of the sea, he helps Hadding.
"That's just it," he said solemnly. "They've dissolved the tobacco people, and they've dissolved the oil people and you can't tell whose turn it may be next." Mr. Doomer was silent a moment and then resumed, speaking in a tone of humility that was almost reverential. "And yet there is a certain preparedness for death, a certain fitness to die that we ought all to aim at.
But, as alone conspicuous throughout the motionless and breathless crowd the judge and criminal gazed upon each other, and as the eyes of the spectators wandered on each, a thrilling and electric impression of a powerful likeness between the doomed and the doomer, for the first time in the trial, struck upon the audience, and increased, though they scarcely knew why, the sensation of pain and dread which the prisoner's last words excited.
I knew that Doomer was failing and of course the time came when I had to tell him. "'Mr. Doomer, I said, 'all that I, all that any medical can do for you is done; you are going to die. I have to warn you that it is time for other ministrations than mine. "'Very good, he said faintly but firmly, 'send for my broker.
"Very," he repeated, "and saddest of all, perhaps, is the sense of the irrevocability of death and the changes that must come after it." We were silent a moment. "You think of these things a great deal, Mr. Doomer?" I said. "I do," he answered. "It may be that it is something in my temperament, I suppose one would call it a sort of spiritual mindedness. But I think of it all constantly.
"They sent out and fetched Jarvis, you know him I think, most sympathetic man and yet most business-like he does all the firm's business with the dying, and we two sat beside Doomer holding him up while he signed stock transfers and blank certificates. "Once he paused and turned his eyes on Jarvis. 'Read me from the text of the State Inheritance Tax Statute, he said.
Consider the words that are used in the text of the Income Tax Case, Folio Two, or the text of the Trans-Missouri Freight Decision, and think of the revelation they contain." I left Mr. Doomer still standing beside the window, musing on the vanity of life and on things, such as the future control of freight rates, that lay beyond the grave.
Doomer; "especially of late years one feels that, all said and done, we are in the hands of a Higher Power, and that the State Legislature is after all supreme. It gives one a sense of smallness. It makes one feel that in these days of drastic legislation with all one's efforts the individual is lost and absorbed in the controlling power of the state legislature.
And as I happened at that very moment to be rescued by an incoming friend, who took but little interest in lions, and even less in Yarner, I have still to learn why the lion howled so when it met Yarner. But surely the lion had reason enough. The Spiritual Outlook of Mr. Doomer One generally saw old Mr. Doomer looking gloomily out of the windows of the library of the club.
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