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Updated: June 14, 2025
So Doris was quite comforted to know that Peter Faneuil, who was held in such esteem, had not even been born in Boston, and was of French extraction. But girls soon get over their tiffs and disputes. Play is the great leveler. Then Doris was so obliging about the French exercises that the girls could not stay away very long at a time.
"And your people were not my people," she said; "but today " She paused. He was a man, no more; but he was in some larger sense a gentleman, sensitive, kindly, chivalrous, everything save his hands and his face. Yet yesterday "Death, the leveler!" he muttered. "And the revealer," she whispered gently, rising to her feet with great eyes.
But above all the frontier was a great leveler. The conditions of life there were such as to make men plain, common, unpretentious genuine. The frontier fostered the sympathetic attitude.
As she removed the smaller vessels from the larger and arranged them before her on the table a crooked smile twisted her lips as she watched the younger woman eat. "Hunger is a great leveler," she said with a laugh. "What do you mean?" asked the girl. "I venture to say that a few weeks ago you would have been nauseated at the idea of eating cat." "Cat?" exclaimed the girl.
Sin, like holiness, is a mighty leveler. The "dislike to retain God" in the consciousness, the aversion of the heart towards the purity of the moral law, vitiates the native perceptions alike in Christendom and Paganism.
When her husband spoke of the dead man, his voice was grave, calm and kindly. No one on earth could have detected that while the man lived, he had been regarded with anything but affection. She thought of that epithet that people so often echo Death the Leveler.
He left it to Barker J. Allen, and he tried to collect it also. He did not survive. Barker J. Allen left it to Anson G. Rogers, who attempted to collect it, and got along as far as the Ninth Auditor's Office, when Death, the great Leveler, came all unsummoned, and foreclosed on him also.
None the less, we tugged it through after some laborious fashion, and were glad enough when the steep ascent gave place to leveler going, and we could sniff the fragrance of the plateau pines and feel their wire-like needles under foot.
This act, so simple and sweet in a friend, was, I know, looked upon' by some as "condescension," in a sovereign; but how could one sorrowing human soul condescend to another and that other Arthur Stanley? Sorrow is as great a leveler as death. Tears wash away all poor human distinctions.
"As we were in the beginning," returned Father Underhill. "We started from most of the nations of Europe. We have had a French state, Dutch and German, English and Scotch, but the one language seems a great leveler." The little girls talked about the concert. Doctor Joe said he thought Daisy might venture.
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