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If you have ever been an office-holder or been close to officials, you must surely have been appalled by the grim way in which committee-meetings, verbose reports, flamboyant speeches, requests, and delegations hold the statesman in a mind-destroying grasp.
"Nay, my son," she said, "this time surely, thou hast no cause of fear." "Urge me not, mother," answered Hamish "or put the leprous toad into a flagon, and I will drink; but from that accursed cup, and of that mind-destroying potion, never will I taste more!"
He is of earnest, impassioned temperament, full of enthusiasm and imagination; fitted for work great work public work head work the noblest kind of work. He will be a great lawyer perhaps a great statesman if he addresses himself at once, manfully, to his tasks; but he will not address himself to these tasks while he pursues the rusting and mind-destroying life of a country village.
Yes, he would go at once, and forget the whole cursed stuff said "cursed stuff" being the affectionate lines which continued to haunt him after the manner of the mind-destroying craze which Mark Twain inflicted on a later generation, "Punch, brothers, punch with care;" for as he walked down the street the words kept time to his feet, the train bells echoed them, and it was those very words that pealed a warning at the crossing.
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