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I think we may add to the foregoing Observation, the Change which has happened in our Language, by the Abbreviation of several Words that are terminated in eth, by substituting an s in the room of the last Syllable, as in drowns, walks, arrives, and innumerable other Words, which in the Pronunciation of our Forefathers were drowneth, walketh, arriveth.
This element, combined with the considerable distance which the British marched that morning, saved the army; though not until another week of almost intolerable suffering had passed, and not until very heavy losses indeed had been sustained. The great Maubeuge-Bavai road, which is prolonged to Eth, and which was, roughly, the British front of that night, was cleared shortly after sunrise.
Take me away, for God's sake. It is still nearly full, thank goodness! Up with you, Eth. The two women rise to their knees. Civilization has reached a crisis. We are at the parting of the ways. We stand on the brink of the Rubicon. Shall we take the plunge? Already a leaf has been torn out of the book of the Sybil. Shall we wait until the whole volume is consumed?
The dismal and sporadic attempts at conversation had slumped into an awkward silence, in the midst of which the door burst open and young Charlie catapulted into the room. "Oh, Eth! Guess who he is!" he cried. "Guess who's the boss the man the Indians call The-Man-Who-Cannot-Die'! It's Bill Carmody! And I knew him the minute I saw him, if he has got whiskers all over his face and a buckskin shirt.
I read an account of their engagement 'way along last winter." "That was a dang lie! 'Cause I was in the den when she called St. Ledger up about it. She gave him the darndest talking to he ever got, and she told him she never would marry him as long as she lived. And Eth does love you! And you ought to heard her stick up for you when old "
It is, at bottom, the same thought as is present in the very well-turned sentence from Chamfort: Le bonheur n'est pas chose aisée: il est très difficile de le trouver en nous, et impossible de le trouver ailleurs. Eth.
T. W. Rolleston, Parallel Paths. Phys. ii. 8, 198 16-34. Pp. 28-9. Phys. ii, c. De Part. An., Bk. i, c. 5. Phys. ii. I, init. De Anima, init. Meteor, iv. 1. 378. See Zeller's Aristotle, vol. i, fin. Polit. 1253 a; Eth. 1162 a. Gen. An. ii. 3. 737.
He had heard and recognized Steve's voice. "It was Pat Sheehan, sure," repeated Bill, "an' I shouldn't wonder if the others was the Nagle boys and Eth Cole." "Yes, it was Steve," said Al. "I saw his old hat as he went by." It was perfectly intelligible to Lime that they were all anxious to have a meeting between Steve and himself.
"Gee!" he muttered as he passed down the hall, "they must have had an awful scrap!" He turned and quietly retraced his steps. In the library he switched on the lights and crossed to the telephone. "There isn't any sense in that," he said, speaking to himself. "Bill loves Eth that's a cinch. And she does love him, too, even if she won't let on.
"In Artois, where I fought for years. Listen, sir. Goeden morgen, mynheer, eth teen begeeray le weeten the ge sond heets omstand." "Which means?" "Good-day, sir! I am anxious to know the state of your health." "He calls that a language! But never mind, that will do capitally." D'Artagnan opened the door and called out to a waiter to desire Madeleine to come upstairs.
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