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Updated: May 13, 2025

Jarvis took the book and read aloud very quietly and simply the part at the beginning 'Whenever and wheresoever it shall appear, down to the words, 'shall be no longer a subject of judgment or appeal but shall remain in perpetual possession. "Doomer listened with his eyes closed. The reading seemed to bring him great comfort. When Jarvis ended he said with a sign, 'That covers it.

Stephen Leacock - Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy

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.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Paul Clifford — Complete

I discovered this accidentally by happening to speak to him of the recent death of Podge, one of our fellow members. "Very sad," I said, "Podge's death." "Ah," returned Mr. Doomer, "very shocking. He was quite unprepared to die." "Do you think so?" I said, "I'm awfully sorry to hear it." "Quite unprepared," he answered.

Stephen Leacock - Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy

Doomer was speaking with something like religious rapture. "And yet what does one see?" he continued. "Men affected with fatal illness and men stricken in years occupied still with idle talk and amusements instead of reading the financial newspapers, and at the last carried away with scarcely time perhaps to send for their brokers when it is already too late." "It is very sad," I said.

Stephen Leacock - Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy