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"This is indeed a happy occasion. I I am glad to be here to-night; to be a witness to such good fortune; to partake in these in this celebration. Why, I feel almost as glad as if I had held four three oughts twelve myself; as if the five thousand were mine instead of belonging to our charming hostess.
"I'd hev some human nature in me, Ezra Dixon, if I was thee. To think o' this being t' first murder as iver was i' Hallam! and thou talking as if I ought to buckle up my tongue about it." "Thou ought; but 'oughts' stand for nothing. To be sure thou'll talk about it; but go and talk i' thy class-meeting wi' Josiah Banks looking i' thy face, and then thou'll talk wi' a kind heart.
Oh dear! but if one were for ever sifting one's thoughts in that way, why, it would be just dreadful! Not many people are careful about their words, but one's thoughts! No, I don't think I could do it, really. I suppose my Aunt Kezia would say I ought. I do so dislike my Aunt Kezia's oughts. She always thinks you ought to do just what you do not want.
"Progress and not happiness" is the end we are told to make for, over and over again; but, progress towards what, is never explained, nor is any basis for this duty assigned. Indeed, duty means nothing for Mr. Laing but an inherited instinct, which if we choose to disobey or if we happen not to possess, who shall blame us or talk to us of "oughts"?
"Who be there?" cried an angry voice. "Your son! your son!" he replied. "George!" "Zon!" repeated the voice; "we have no zon. If it be thee, go to Coomberland, lad. We have noughts to do with thee. Thy old grandfather, Zquire Morris, be now dead, and he ha'n't paid us so well for what we have done as to have oughts to zay to thee again; zo good night, lad."
'But the Directors ought to have granted my application, you insist. Exactly! I agree. But we are not in a universe of oughts. You have a special apparatus within you for dealing with a universe where oughts are flagrantly disregarded. And you are not using it. You are lying awake, keeping your wife awake, injuring your health, injuring hers, losing your dignity and your cheerfulness. Why?
'What, asked the secretary, bursting into another laugh, 'what will be the paid up capital, according to the next prospectus? 'A figure of two, and as many oughts after it as the printer can get into the same line, replied his friend. 'Ha, ha!
'At Midsummer, muttered Mr Squeers, resuming his complaint, 'I took down ten boys; ten twenties is two hundred pound. I go back at eight o'clock tomorrow morning, and have got only three three oughts is an ought three twos is six sixty pound. What's come of all the boys? what's parents got in their heads? what does it all mean? Here the little boy on the top of the trunk gave a violent sneeze.
Phil looked down at the girl. "I think your question is answered. I can't leave Dunbury," he said. "Then Carlotta ought to come to you." "There are no oughts in Carlotta's bright lexicon. I don't blame her, Tony. Dunbury is a dead hole from most points of view. I am afraid she wouldn't be happy here. You wouldn't be yourself forever. Bet you are planning to get away right now."
The block of marble has possibilities, so has molten metal and a tube of paint; but life has possibilities plus inner power. The three imperative "Oughts" for the parent or teacher are herein suggested. First, he ought to be able to recognize each possibility as it appears. Second, he ought to know how best to deal with it.
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