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In 1864 the last man died, in 1876 the last woman died, and the Spartans of Australasia were extinct. The Whites always mean well when they take human fish out of the ocean and try to make them dry and warm and happy and comfortable in a chicken coop; but the kindest-hearted white man can always be depended on to prove himself inadequate when he deals with savages.
Without, many locusts shrilled monotonously. "No, I do not think you are officious or meddling or anything of the sort, I think you are one of the best and kindest-hearted women in the world. But bless your motherly soul, Polly! the thing is utterly preposterous. Of course, Patricia is young, and likes attention, and it pleases her to have men admire her. That, Polly, is perfectly natural.
I only know that it belongs to Sir Charles, the kindest-hearted and richest man in Wales and in England too." Passing some cottages I heard a group of children speaking English. Asked an intelligent-looking girl if she could speak Welsh. "Yes," said she, "I can speak it, but not very well." There is not much Welsh spoken by the children hereabout. The old folks hold more to it.
All that Melissa did understand was the frank kindliness of the younger man's manner, and his evident desire to allay their fears. Colonel Forrester, he assured Lysander, was the kindest-hearted man in the world, a piece of information which seemed to carry more surprise than comfort to its recipient.
The reply was: "If you had time to procure a substitute it would be easily arranged; but the regiment is so weak, and the aversion to the West Indies so prevalent after this last very sickly season, that I doubt if His Royal Highness would permit any man to purchase his discharge. However, we will see. The Duke is one of the kindest-hearted of men, and I will lay the case before him.
I said 'twas yours, and just like you, too; you were the kindest-hearted man in the world, I said. Oh, you needn't look at me like that, Hosy. It's the plain truth, and you know it." "Humph!" I grunted. "If the young lady were a mind-reader she might well, never mind. What else did she say?" "Oh, a good many things. Wanted to know if her bill at Mrs. Briggs' was paid. I said it was.
'Dear! cried the married lady. 'You've no idea what he is, replied Mrs Kenwigs; 'and yet as good a creature as ever breathed. 'The kindest-hearted man as ever was, said Kenwigs. 'It goes to his heart, I believe, to be forced to cut the water off, when the people don't pay, observed the bachelor friend, intending a joke. 'George, said Mr Kenwigs, solemnly, 'none of that, if you please.
Timothy, although the kindest-hearted fellow in the world, was as good a hater as Dr Johnson himself could have wished to meet with; and when sometimes his basket was not so well filled as usual, he would fill up with empty bottles below, rather than that the credit of the house should be suspected, and his deficiencies create a smile of scorn in the mouth of his red-haired antagonist, when they happened to meet going their rounds.
My conviction is that, whatever may be said as to our frivolity, extravagance, &c., under the Empire, we shall be just the same under any form of government the bravest, the most timid, the most ferocious, the kindest-hearted, the most irrational, the most intelligent, the most contradictory, the most consistent people whom Jove, taking counsel of Venus and the Graces, Mars and the Furies, ever created for the delight and terror of the world; in a word, the Parisians.
The predetermined destruction of the monarchy seems evident, when at the most critical point, and at the moment calling for the most careful retrenchment and reform, fate had placed Louis XV., acting like a madman in the excesses of his profligacy; and, at the next stage, while the last opportunity still existed by main force to drag the nation back, and hold it from going over the brink, there stood the most excellent, the kindest-hearted but weakest gentleman who ever wore the name of king!
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