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Some ignorant people will refrain from permanently removing the cause of a deadly malaria, for fear of the temporary spread of its offensiveness. Let us not be of such. The more repugnant and repelling, the greater the evil. Leaving our women and children behind, let us freely enter this Golgotha.
Without the slightest trace of offensiveness in her manner, she gave Leslie to understand that the final obsequies must be conducted in the home of his parents, to whom once more her husband belonged, and that she would abide by all arrangements his family elected to make. Mr.
I am filled with wonder, for I expected a terrible fight with an appetite, strengthened by an indulgence of about thirty-five years, but the enemy has not shown his head. Not only has the desire for smoking been effectually squelched, but a perfect hatred of smoking has been developed on account of the offensiveness of the odor of tobacco.
When regular artists and professors conduct us into their dissecting room, the skill with which they anatomise may reconcile us to the offensiveness of the operation; but if butchers and resurrection-men are to drag us into their shambles, while they mangle human carcases with their clumsy and unhallowed hands, the stoutest spectators must turn from the exhibition with sickness and disgust.
It came from the old man in the background, whose offensiveness and spiteful ways were barely atoned for by the occasional chuckle he con- tributed to general laughs. "O no, no." said Gabriel. "Don't ye play no more shepherd" said Susan Tall's husband, the young married man who had spoken once before. "I must be moving and when there's tunes going on I seem as if hung in wires.
The only safe place for him is at sea; and if he had kept to the sea, I shouldn't have found him so easily. Well, what about it?" "I accept." "As an honest Chinaman?" taking out the offensiveness of the query by smiling. "As an honest Chinaman." O'Higgins produced his wallet. "Fifty now and fifty when I return." "Agreed. Here are the jade carvers. Would you like to see them at work?"
"Is he invalided too?" inquired Caron, without heeding the soldier's offensiveness of manner. "He was severely wounded at Jemappes," was the answer. "At Jemappes? But, voyons my friend, Jemappes was fought three months ago." "Why, so all the world knows. What then?
"Let her alone!" he commanded fiercely. "Kill her!" shouted the hunters. "Hit the windigo on the head!" All that world of northern air could not sweeten her, but Jacques picked her up without a thought of her offensiveness and ran to his canoe. The bones resisted him; the claws scratched at him through her blanket. Jean Boucher lifted a paddle to hit the creature as soon as she was down.
'No, said Wilmet, even now keeping herself blind to the offensiveness of Alda's suggestion; 'but as it is utterly impossible for me to think of leaving home, I did think it would have been wiser to put a stop to it while there wa is time, and the tears began to gather again. 'And have you? 'They won't let me. 'Who?
She did not believe in the other's failing. 'That common old woman! she exclaimed with angry scorn to her daughter. 'It's deliberate offensiveness, that's all it is at all! And she left the Pension. But her attitude to the harmless old Quaker lady was really in small her attitude to humanity at large. She drew away in disgust from a world that had treated her so badly.
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