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"All this pressure of extra work in the hotels here is produced, not by ill-willed persons who are consciously oppressive, indeed, as will be seen, much of it was produced by sheer social good will and persons of most progessive intent, but simply by the unregulated conditions of the laundries."
If anybody should be, then, so ill-willed towards us and so lamentably ignorant of spiritual truth himself as to seek to exercise the power of malicious suggestion against us, I pity the person who tries to do it. He will get nothing out of it, because he is firing peas out of a pea-shooter against an iron-clad war vessel. That is what it amounts to; but for himself it amounts to something more.
His whole mind, we are told, now stood bending itself to evil. Nay, so set was he now upon sheer evil that he would act it of his own accord, and without any instigation at all from Diabolus. And that went on till he was looked on in the city as next in wickedness to very Diabolus himself. Parable apart, my ill-willed brethren, our ill-will has made us very fiends in human shape.
Mother did not deny that this was true; but she was most distressed because he was wild and bad; cruel to animals, and ill-willed toward human beings. "May God soften his hard heart, and give him a better disposition!" said the mother, "or else he will be a misfortune, both to himself and to us." The boy stood for a long time and pondered whether he should read the service or not.
These brothers were all powerful men, wealthy, of noble kin, prudent, and all were dear to the King. Then said King Olaf: 'What means that which Emund told of Atti the Silly? None answered, but they looked at one another. Said the King, 'Speak now. Then said Thorvid the Stammerer: 'Atti quarrelsome, covetous, ill-willed, silly, foolish. Then asked the King, 'Against whom is aimed this cut?
Certainly in the captivity of John Slover, another of Crawford's ill-starred and ill-willed crew of marauders, there were few gleams of happier chance to distinguish it from most histories of the sort.
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