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A decade or two before, especially in the "forties," orthodoxy had been as uncompromising as it was unenlightened. This was greatly altered in the latter part of the "seventies." Jacob Prelooker has a different story to tell. A remarkable change he says had taken place in the minds of my parents since I had overcome all difficulties and become a student of a royal college.
They vowed to her that ten per cent. was a trifle; the fortune to be expected out of the mine was already clearly estimable at forties and fifties. For their part they anticipated cent. per cent. Mrs. Cherson said she wanted money, and had therefore invested in the mine. It seemed so consequent, the cost of things being enormous! She and her sister Mrs.
Been shipmates in the forties. He's waiting for him now. A pretty mess! What do you think?" Almayer shrugged his shoulders. "That woman broke with Hudig on my assurance that all would be well," went on Lingard, with growing dismay. "She did. Proper thing, of course. Wife, husband . . . together . . . as it should be . . . Smart fellow . . . Impossible scoundrel . . . Jolly old go! Oh! damn!"
The fashion of the period furnished a peaceful and dignified refuge for women, when their beauty waned and the "terrible forties" ended their illusions. To go into brief retreat for penitence and prayer was at all times a graceful thing to do, besides making for safety. It was only a step further to retire altogether from the scenes of pleasure which had begun to pall.
She always sat with her back to the door, in her mother's fluted rocking-chair; and Sophia on the spot, but not in the chair, occupied by John Baines in the forties, and in the seventies and later by Samuel Povey. Constance had been alarmed by that frigidity. "I shall have a return of my sciatica!" she had exclaimed, and Sophia was startled by the apprehension in her tone.
"Forties," answered Chukkers, biting home. The little Levantine was surprised, as those Simian eyebrows of his revealed. "Forties!" he said. "I thought he was a hundred to one." "So he were a week since," answered Chukkers surlily. "Silver's been plankin' the dollars on." "Ah, that ain't all," said Jaggers gloomily. "The Ring knows something.
Haskalah lovers multiplied rapidly, and were found in the early "forties" in every city of any size in the Pale. "The further we go from Pinsk to Kletzk and Nieszvicz," writes a correspondent in the Annalen, "the more we lose sight of the fanatics, and the greater grows the number of the enlightened."
But what can you expect when a man along in the forties decides it's time for him to settle down, and ties himself up to some giddy young thing, so brimful of life that it's all she can do to keep her toes on the ground. It's like hitching up a colt with some slow-going old plug from a livery stable.
However, no septuagenarian is to figure in these pages. Our elders will be but in the middle forties and the earlier fifties; and we must find for them an age which may evoke their friendly interest, and yet be likely to call forth, besides that, their sympathy and their longing admiration, and later their tolerance, their patience, and even their forgiveness.
'I'm getting pretty far into the forties now, Fred, and I don't think the world holds anything dearer to me than a few old friends like yourself. He put out his hand as he spoke, and papa took it. It was awfully affecting. I looked as girly-girly as I could, lest they should catch me listening, and picked daisies harder than ever. "'Of course, this is sacredly confidential, said Mr.
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