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Moreover, from Africa there is always something new in the way of tropical diseases, and presently Africa, if we let it continue to fester as it festers now, may produce an epidemic that will stand exportation to a temperate climate. A bacterium that may kill you or me in some novel and disgusting way may even now be developing in some Congo muck-heap.
It was the string of foul words that, under a sufficient impetus, infallibly comes rolling from the peasant's tongue an explosion as natural as when a thunderbolt scatters a muck-heap at the roadside. Then, snarling and growling like an animal, he stooped and cuffed her. "Will!" "Will!" She repeated his name between the blows. She did not utter a word of complaint, or make an effort to escape.
"Yes, but," said the doctress, "with monarchial power we can trample on them for their good. Outside Marks's door at the back there is a muck-heap, as he calls it; all the refuse of the house is thrown there; it is a horrible melange of organic matter and decaying vegetables, a hot-bed of fever and malaria.
Here was the stereotyped scoundrel with the classical saving trait the one conventionally inevitable impulse for good shining like a diamond on a muck-heap his apparently disinterested affection for his father. "You were very decent to me that day," Dysart said. "You had something to say to me but were good enough not to. I came over to-night to give you a chance to curse me out.
After receiving her kiss the child slipped away like an eel, and disappeared behind a muck-heap which was piled at the top of a mound between the path and the house; for, like many Breton farmers who have a system of agriculture that is all their own, Galope-Chopine put his manure in an elevated spot, so that by the time it was wanted for use the rains had deprived it of all its virtue.
He was the Man with the Rake, groping hourly in the muck-heap of the city for gold, for gold, for gold. It was his dream, his passion; at every instant he seemed to feel the generous solid weight of the crude fat metal in his palms. The glint of it was constantly in his eyes; the jangle of it sang forever in his ears as the jangling of cymbals. "Who is it?
"Hear, hear!" ejaculated Jeekie, "he say something true at last; by accident, I think, like pig what find pearl in muck-heap." "Hold your tongue, Jeekie," said Alan. "I do not intend to kill you, Lord Aylward, or to do you any harm " "Nor I neither," broke in Jeekie, "all I do to my Lord just for my Lord's good; who Jeekie that he wish to hurt noble British 'ristocrat?"
It shines in his vocabulary like a jewel in a muck-heap. And, even so, he continually misapplies it. For you must have observed he uses it as a sort of taunt, in the sense of to ergotise, implying, as it were the poor, dear fellow! a vein of sophistry. As for his cruelty to Jean-Marie, it must be forgiven him it is not his nature, it is the nature of his life.
You've sneered at him, and overworked him, and probably you've succeeded in preventing his ever rising above your muck-heap! And now because you can't drag him back, you come here to vent Go tell my husband, go tell him, and don't blame me when he kills you, when my husband kills you he will kill you " The man grunted, looked at her impassively, said one word, and walked out.
"Take him by the tail, and fling him on the muck-heap beneath the window!" 'Thereof I acquit Whittington, who never was thankless to man or brute, said King Henry. 'Moreover, his cat, or her grandchildren, must be now in high preferment at the King of Barbary's Court. 'A marvellous beast is that cat, said James.
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