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Just as Major Cartwright explains his purchase of them by the shameless assertion that it just tickles him to death "to see what Godforsaken idjits those Yankees can make of themselves when they half-way try. Why, suh, one glance at their Sunday newspapers ought to prove to any right thinkin' man that it's safer an' saner to die in South Carolina than to live in New York!"
But there!" she added, presently, as the soothing warmth of her own kitchen stove began to penetrate, "I dunno's I oughter call it a Godforsaken place. I'm kind o' glad to git back." There was silence for a few minutes, while she toasted her feet, and the man stood shambling from one foot to the other and furtively watching her and the road. Suddenly she rose, and lifted a pot-cover.
Such a hideous car, Harvey all wrecked. It had been under fire again and again. "He took you to Dunkirk! Who was with you?" "Just Jean, the chauffeur." "I like his nerve! Wasn't there in all that Godforsaken country a woman to take with you? You and this What was his name, anyhow?" "I can't tell you that, Harvey." "Look here!" he burst out. "How much of this aren't you going to tell?
"Still of a mind to go?" she said, smiling at her aunt. "More than ever! It's a perfectly heavenly day, and we'll have a good ride, if nothing more." "Good ride!" chaffed Embury. "Don't you fool yourself, Aunt Abby! The ride from this burg to Newark, N.J., is just about the most Godforsaken bit of scenery you ever passed through!" "I don't mind that.
But principally because I need a case or two more of your excellent vin de champagne manufactured out of Persian petroleum, the water of the Karun, the nameless abominations of Shuster, and the ever effervescing impudence of the Swiss Republic!" "What can I do?" smiled the flattered author of this concoction. "I have to use what I can get, in this Godforsaken place."
Wouldn't that jar you? When dad heard about that you couldn't have kept him in Russia on a bet, and so we let the authorities have all the money we had, giving some to each man who held us up, until we got out of the country, and then we took the first long breath we had taken since we struck the Godforsaken country of the czar.
I nodded and invented a little difficulty with my coffee pot. "Theirs was only a flying visit," I explained. "I was lucky to get hold of them for my dinner." "I'm hanged if I understand this!" Reggie remarked, looking at me suspiciously. "Why, I spent the best part of three weeks with them in that Godforsaken hole out West, and they were as keen as mustard on my taking them round London.
We must always take risks; and we should never trade on the terror of death, nor forget that this wretchedest of all the trades is none the less craven because it can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly. *The Only Real World Danger.*
"Old man," I said, "if you were to think a year you'd never guess what brought us here to-day!" "It's O's head again," he said, grinding his teeth and casting a vitriolic glance at To'oto'o, "and if there was any law or order in this Godforsaken land" he looked daggers at the Chief Justice as he said this "that fellar would have got short jift for murdering my fader-in-law's aunt's son!"
There're some things, and I know Uncle Meriweather will agree with me, that it isn't in human nature to put up with." "If I were forty years younger I'd call him out and give him a whipping he wouldn't forget in a jiffy," blustered Uncle Meriweather, feebly violent. "There's no way of defending a lady in these Godforsaken days.
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