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Mahony, on the other hand, gave the affair a wide berth even in thought. For him it was a kind of Pandora's box, of which, having once caught a glimpse of the contents, he did not again dare to raise the lid. Things might escape from it that would alter his whole life. But he, too, dated from it in the sense of suddenly becoming aware, with a throb of regret, that he had left his youth behind him.
But the Jew who has not like the Occidental received the Pandora's gift of political organization, and stands substantially in a relation of indifference to the state; who moreover is as reluctant to give up the essence of his national idiosyncrasy, as he is ready to clothe it with any nationality at pleasure and to adapt himself up to a certain degree to foreign habits the Jew was for this very reason as it were made for a state, which was to be built on the ruins of a hundred living polities and to be endowed with a somewhat abstract and, from the outset, toned-down nationality.
I had to explain that the wicked fairies leaping so realistically from Pandora's box weren't real at all, but I'm sure I did not convince the smaller one, who was far too shy and excited to utter a word beyond a startled whisper: "Yes, Miss," or "No, Miss."
It is scarce necessary to say, that the raft now introduced as lying upon the ocean some twenty miles from the dead cachalot was that which some days before had parted from the Pandora, or that the fiendish forms that occupied it were the remnant of the Pandora's crew. These were not all there: nearly a score of them were absent.
The explanation would be the soul's instinctive perception. Pandora's box for a child's story. Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting. "A person to look back on a long life ill-spent, and to picture forth a beautiful life which he would live, if he could be permitted to begin his life over again.
I was not permitted, therefore, to set my foot in any of the boats that were constantly going and coming between the ship and the shore. There was one other of the Pandora's crew who was dealt with in a similar manner, and this was poor "Dutchy", as the sailors called him. They might well suspect him of a design to run away.
I have now sir, only to desire that you will take the most vigorous measures to extinguish the rebellion in the district which you command, and that you will obey, in the strictest manner, the directions I have given in this letter, relative to the treatment of this country. This order of lord Cornwallis proved to South Carolina like the opening of Pandora's box.
Altogether, malaria is a remarkably bad citizen in any community, and its stamping-out is well worth all it costs. What's in a name? All the aches and pains that came out of Pandora's box, if the name happens to be rheumatism. It is a term of wondrous elasticity. It will cover every imaginable twinge in any and every region of the body and explain none of them.
Very far away seemed the voice of Hermes saying, "This jar, too, is from Olympus; it has in it Pandora's dower."
As I returned on deck to strike up the hatch, I saw not a soul of the Pandora's crew. They had all gone out of the vessel, and betaken themselves to the raft. From the deck I could not see either them or the raft as the latter was still close in under the beam-ends of the barque. As soon as I had got fairly down, my companion pushed off, and the next moment the great raft came under our view.
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