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Whether in hold or on deck it is one of the most exhausting forms of labor, and the men, whose throats are lined with coal dust, wash them out with floods of beer. Naturally they are all intemperate, and the wages taken home are small in proportion to their thirst. The mother had made constant fight for respectability.
A red light stood in his eyeballs, as if upon a fiery answer. The intemperate fit subsided. Smoothing dawn his mottled grey beard with quieting hands, he took refuge in his habitual sententious irony. "My friend, I am not a hare in front of the king, nor am I a ram in the rear of him: I fly him not, neither do I propel him. So, therefore, I cannot predict the movements of the king.
Soon afterwards, the intemperate zeal of another individual, armed to the teeth not, however, like the martial sheriff and his forces, with arquebus and javelin, but with the still more deadly weapons of polemical theology, was very near causing a general outbreak. A peaceful and not very numerous congregation were listening to one of their preachers in a field outside the town.
But unhappily he became intemperate, and at the end of his second term had fallen so low that his party abandoned him and sent another in his place. After that he reformed and came to this city, bringing his family with him. He had two children, a boy and a girl. His wife was a cultivated and very superior woman.
The Quakers again are exempt from several of the causes of uneasiness, which attach to the world at large. Some go to the gaming-table, and ruin themselves and their families, and destroy the peace of their minds. But the Quakers are never found injuring their fortunes or their happiness by such disreputable means. Others disturb the harmony of their lives by intemperate sallies of passion.
Now do they set forth how it will doubtless be remembered that some time back a painful sensation was created in the public mind by a case of mysterious death from opium occurring in the first floor of the house occupied as a rag, bottle, and general marine store shop, by an eccentric individual of intemperate habits, far advanced in life, named Krook; and how, by a remarkable coincidence, Krook was examined at the inquest, which it may be recollected was held on that occasion at the Sol's Arms, a well-conducted tavern immediately adjoining the premises in question on the west side and licensed to a highly respectable landlord, Mr.
I am most peskily afraid my warmth has kinder betrayed me into rudeness. I really beg pardon, I do upon my soul. I feel I have smashed down all decency, I am horrid ashamed of myself. Well, he won't say you hante rode the high hoss, and done the unhandsum thing, because it wouldn't be true if he did; but he'll say, 'Pray be seated. I can make allowances, Sir, even for intemperate zeal.
I had only one wish with it all, one hope through it all, and it was, that when I brought you here as my wife, you would come to love me some time. Well, I've waited, and waited. It hasn't come. We're as far apart to- day as we were the day I married you. Farther, for I had hope then, but I've no hope now, none at all." They both turned towards the intemperate sunlight and the great hill.
Neither spoke for a few moments. Then: "I do know something about you, Mr. McKay," she said. "Among other things I know that that if you have become become intemperate it is not your fault.... That was vile of them-unutterably wicked-to do what they did to you " "Who are you?" he burst out. "Where have you learned-heard such things? Did I babble all this?" "You did not utter a sound!"
His judgments on the Reformers, startling as they were at the time, are not so very different, as to the facts of the case, from what most people on all sides now agree in; and as to their temper and theology, from what most churchmen would now agree in. But when all this is said, it still remains true that Froude was often intemperate and unjust.
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