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Your friend the king would be glad to cut off our scurvy pittances at the first chance. It's a risk. But honour before everything." General D'Hubert had recovered his power of speech. "So you come like this along the road to invite me to a throat-cutting match with that that..." A laughing sort of rage took possession of him. "Ha! ha! ha! ha!"
Who could ever have supposed that I should have been fobbed off with such a pittance?" "Who, indeed, Jasper! You were made to spend fortunes, and call them pittances when spent, Jasper! You should have been a prince, Jasper; such princely tastes! Trinkets and dress, horses and dice, and plenty of ladies to look and die!
Paula was utterly content with him. She had given up her career for him. No. She hadn't done that. He had not asked her to do that. Had not, on the contrary, her marriage really furthered it? Was she not more of a person to-day than the discouraged young woman he had found singing for pittances the leading dramatic soprano rôles in the minor municipal operas of Germany and Austria?
Your friend the king would be glad to cut off our scurvy pittances at the first chance. It's a risk. But honour before everything." General D'Hubert had recovered his powers of speech. "So you come here like this along the road to invite me to a throat-cutting match with that that . . ." A laughing sort of rage took possession of him. "Ha! ha! ha! ha!"
And now, the erstwhile exile, living on the pittances he could wheedle from his few disciples, died in the fame of the world. Three kings sent wreaths to his funeral, and the city of Venice twice asked for the privilege of giving him a final pageant. But Cosima strangely would have no ceremony at all, and no music. "She feared it would rend her heart in twain," says Mr.
But when he saw how I cried at his saying so, he was very sorry indeed, for he has always been the kindest brother in the world, when he has been away from the great folks who have spoilt him: 'But why, said he, 'Henrietta, why would you have me live, when instead of raising you and my poor mother into an higher station, I am sunk so low, that I only help to consume your own poor pittances to support me in my disgrace!"
I never knew that it was this morning he intended to be off, until he was gone, and I had to run after him to the station. Ask Hamish Channing." "He must be mad!" exclaimed Mr. Galloway. "He says great fortunes are made, out at Port Natal. I don't know whether it is so." "Great fortunes made!" irascibly responded Mr. Galloway. "Pittances, that folks go out with, are lost, when they are such as he.
"Not on any consideration! Eight and forty hours! As to corporations, parishes, vestry-boards, and similar gatherings of jolter-headed clods who assemble to exchange such speeches that, by heaven, they ought to be worked in quicksilver mines for the short remainder of their miserable existence, if it were only to prevent their detestable English from contaminating a language spoken in the presence of the sun as to those fellows, who meanly take advantage of the ardour of gentlemen in the pursuit of knowledge to recompense the inestimable services of the best years of their lives, their long study, and their expensive education with pittances too small for the acceptance of clerks, I would have the necks of every one of them wrung and their skulls arranged in Surgeons' Hall for the contemplation of the whole profession in order that its younger members might understand from actual measurement, in early life, HOW thick skulls may become!"
Since I left, Miss Rice has advanced farther in this matter; and last year most of the pupils paid a trifle for tuition, amounting in all to over twenty dollars. It often costs more than the amount to secure these pittances; but it does our pupils good, and we spared no pains to this end." It is touching to see the spirit manifested by some parents in this connection.
The Destiny which allotted them impossible tasks has given them immortality on the scenes of their glorious failure. They differ from leaders of other countries, who divide the average pittances of success or ill success on the road to honored retirement. Few of the heroes among modern nations have left such vivid and lasting memory as "the strong men of Ireland."
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