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Some of the young married women had during his absence become mothers; but most of the ladies of the regiment presided without change over the solid domestic comfort of their house-holds. The main thing noticeable was that they had sacrificed themselves with greater or less success to fashion, which was just now in favour of slender figures.
This is the one path for Brahmanas, by which they who understand it proceed to house-holds, or abodes in the forest, or residence with preceptors, or among mendicants. With numerous unconfused symbols, only one knowledge is worshipped.
In the suburban road in which you live there are probably at least a hundred other house-holds. Now if you were all, each suppressing his individuality, to club together you could build in place of the brick-boxes in which you live a magnificent phalanstery.
Anders had for years been trying to assert his independence by leaving her, without being able to carry out his plan. We soon threw off mutually every shred of disguise as to the present state of our finances, so that, although the two house-holds were actually separated, our common troubles gave us all the intimacy of one united family.
House-holds break up after the children are grown, of course; they all settle to something; that is all it comes to the child-life out of which if they had died and gone away, there would have been wailing and heart-breaking; the loving and tending and watching through cunning ways and helpless prettiness and small knowledge-getting: they turn into men and women, and they go out into the towns, or they get married, even and nobody thinks, then, that the little children are dead!
At the last stroke the watchman lifts up his chant in a voice that comes quavering down from bygone ages: Ho, watchman! heard ye the clock strike ten? This hour is worth the know ing Ye house-holds high and low, The time is here and go ing When ye to bed should go; Ask God to guard, and say A men! Be quick and bright, Watch fire and light, our clock just now struck ten. I shall take his advice.
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