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But what I don't understand is, why don't you put it into a book?" "Into a book?" echoed Thyrsis, perplexed. "Yes," explained the other "then it won't hurt anybody but yourself. Why should you try to get it into my magazine, and scare away my half-million subscribers?" Section 12.
I need not put it into words." A few days later Simmy came in, drooping. "Well, the first half-million is gone. Next month another five hundred thousand goes. I hope you are happy, Brady." "I hope Anne is happy," was all that Thorpe said in response. No word came to him from Anne. She was as silent as the sphinx.
Had you done that, you might have been my heir in everything." "Well, sir, I have made my bed, and I must lie upon it. I have cause enough for regret though, to tell the truth, it is not about your money." "Ah, I knew you would be stiff to the last," said Mr. Bertram, angry that he could not move his nephew to express some sorrow about the half-million. "Am I stiff, sir? Indeed, I do not mean it."
"Here's the situation," resumed Andrews, puffing violently on his inevitable cigar and toying with the letters and clippings. "We have already held up payment of the half-million dollars of insurance to the widow as long as we can consistently do so. But we must pay soon, scandal or not, unless we can get something more than mere conjecture." "You are already holding it up?" queried Craig. "Yes.
The people had not come, but they surely would come: no patriot could doubt it without being guilty of treason. And so houses were built and built without a pause, for the half-million citizens who were coming. There was no anxiety as to the date of their arrival; it was sufficient that they should be expected.
Here had been destroyed, in a few hours, more property than a half-million industrious men would accumulate in their lives. Almost as gratifying as the sight of the old flag flying in triumph, was the exhibition of our naval power in the river before us.
Of the half-million who crossed the Elbe in the autumn of the year '12 about forty thousand infantry were left in the spring of '13. But they were terrible men, these forty thousand: men of iron, eaters of horses, and sleepers in the snow; filled, too, with rage and bitterness against the Russians.
Jones made a house-to-house canvass in his automobile and went without sleep till the half-million dollars was pledged. He fell seriously ill of pneumonia, but recovered in time to be present at the signing of the contract. Dr. Jones used to assert that there was more moral uplift in a single performance of the 'Mikado' than in the entire book of Psalms.
"I know it sir, because I know that this man, this brazen faced, iron-fisted man is not such a chicken-hearted creature as to allow a half-million or so to be snatched from him without stirring every nerve and muscle to try and win it back again. For I know that hitherto he has always triumphed over the power of the law and has always escaped from the most dangerous ambushes."
Caesar's mind was the mind of a scholar, but his hands were red with the blood of a half-million men slain in unjust wars. Augustus loved refinement, literature and music. He assembled at his table the scholars of a nation, yet his culture did not forbid the slaying of ten thousand gladiators at his various garden parties. We admire Pliny's literary style.
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