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Where help was needed his hands were ready, and it was not long, so ill-fitted was the tindery edifice to resist the flames, before the worst had happened, the tower had fallen, and the dead and dying, rather than the burning structure, became the chief, almost the sole care of the earnest workers, firemen and others.
The jolly old tune, "Begone dull care," which began, "My wife shall dance, and I will sing, And merrily pass the day." was strangely appropriated to the solemn words, "If this be death, I soon shall be From every pain and sorrow free," and did not seem ill-fitted either.
Here was somebody more wretched, more desolate, more utterly lonely than himself a soft, fearful, feminine somebody, ill-fitted to fight the world with those frail, white hands. Hitherto he had blindly worshiped at one shrine, and now the image was shattered, the shrine was empty so appallingly empty that he was ready to fill it at any cost.
His face was grave, and he returned their glances calmly as he rose and made the speech which, unknown to himself, was presently to prove so important in his life. "My Lords," said he, "and gentlemen of this council, I am ill-fitted to be present here, and ill-fitted to add my advice to that which has been given.
I always found him annoying, because however inspiring and instructive his playing was as to the technical execution of the violinists, he was certainly ill-fitted to be the leader of a first-class orchestra.
And as if the usual silence of the chapel would be too hard to bear, the living girls chanted to-day the "Dies Irae" and the "Libera me." When winter came, the little trestle was often in requisition, for the inmates of St. Anne's were ill-fitted to cope with any sickness.
Even those who reached Quebec were coldly received and were grudgingly supplied with miserable food. Poetry and sentiment have not exaggerated the sorrow and misery of these hapless exiles, so ill-fitted to go out into the bitter world of hardship and destitution.
Indeed, he fostered everything that was adverse or ill-fitted to an orderly life. He tainted the glories of his father and grandfather by practising the foulest lusts, and bedimmed the brightest honours of his ancestors by most shameful deeds.
"Alas! lady," Alleyne answered, "I know well the great honor that you have done me in deeming me worthy to wait upon so renowned a knight, yet I am so conscious of my own weakness that I scarce dare incur duties which I might be so ill-fitted to fulfil." "Modesty and a humble mind," said she, "are the very first and rarest gifts in page or squire.
The masses are uneducated, the prey of impulse and passion; politics are corrupt; to submit the genius of free ENTREPRENEURS to the clumsy and ill-fitted yoke of a popularly wrought legal control is to stifle their enterprise and interfere with their chances of success.
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