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Aunt Jennie was always a placid little soul, with a most enviable knack of taking everything easy. Nothing ever worried her greatly, and when she had decided that a thing was inevitable it did not worry her at all. "But I am going," cried Kate. "I will go I must go. I positively cannot let Mary Taylor my own beloved Molly go and perpetrate matrimony without my being on hand to see it.
But the incident, though of the purest originality, unexampled, and probably never to be repeated, is one, I think, which appeals to the general sympathies of mankind. We know, each for himself, that none of us would perpetrate such a folly, yet feel as if some other might.
But the lieutenant ordered him to close and lock the gate; and having secured the key, the officer said, "We must search this house; a crime has been committed close at hand." "A crime!" ejaculated the porter; "then the culprit is not here for there is not a soul beneath this roof who would perpetrate a misdeed." "Cease your prating, old man," said the lieutenant, sternly.
Perchance not in another; for they who maim their earthly lives may not enjoy in heaven the happiness whose seed was not planted here. The injury is justly irreparable; else had angels been immediately created. But Salome was practising deception on herself. Airs and graces which might have suited a coquettish lady's-maid, but were in her a ghastly absurdity, did she revive and perpetrate.
But at the moment when head and body were severed, and fell into the trough, I groaned, and apprehended, not with my mind, but with my heart and my whole being, that all the arguments which I had heard anent the death-penalty were arrant nonsense; that, no matter how many people might assemble in order to perpetrate a murder, no matter what they might call themselves, murder is murder, the vilest sin in the world, and that that crime had been committed before my very eyes.
There would be an absurdity in doing so which he did not dare to perpetrate. Only if he could have passed the morning in Paradise Row, and then have walked home with Roden in the dark evening, he could, he thought, have said what he had to say very conveniently. But it was impossible.
Your heart spurns at the mischief your passions would perpetrate! Remember Unless you have recourse to some malignant, some cruel, some abominable means, you never shall accomplish so base a purpose! But you cannot be so guilty, Clifton! You cannot! I know not by what perverse fatality you have been misled, for you have a mind fitted for the sublimest emanations of virtue! No, you cannot!
Thus his solemn "Argument to prove that the Abolishing of Christianity may be attended with Some Inconveniences" is such a frightful satire upon the abuses of Christianity by its professed followers that it is impossible for us to say whether Swift intended to point out needed reforms, or to satisfy his conscience, or to perpetrate a joke on the Church, as he had done on poor Partridge.
At the same time he is obliged to admit that this, perhaps, proves rather the effect of morals on music than of music on morals; and so our problem remains in a vague twilight. To gain more light on the subject, let us take a few specific cases. Does the influence of music make us less inclined to perpetrate murder, suicide, or cruel practices?
"It's the Republicans that are behind it all," affirmed El Conejo in his most serious manner, and he would be off to another place to spread the news or perpetrate another hoax. He would join a group. "Have you heard what happened to Weyler?" "No. What was it?" "Oh, nothing. On his return from camp some flies attacked his face and ate up a whole ear.
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