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Updated: June 28, 2025
I don't quite know what it was. He gathered that the success had been indescribable. Jane radiated bliss. 'I tell you what, old man, said Doxey: 'we must adapt The Plague-Spot, eh? 'We'll see about that, said Henry. Two days afterwards Henry arose from a bed of pain, and was able to consume a little tea and dry toast.
His influence was a malignant ulcer a cancerous plague-spot, whose evil tentacles, reaching hidden and unseen, would slowly but surely fasten themselves upon the civilization of the North sap its vitality poison its blood. In the flash of her first glance the girl's eyes took in every particular and detail of him.
He himself was the president of this court, and after him a certain licentiate, Vargas, a Spaniard by birth, of whose iniquitous character the historians of both parties are unanimous; cast out like a plague-spot from his own country, where he had violated one of his wards, he was a shameless, hardened villain, in whose mind avarice, lust, and the thirst for blood struggled for ascendancy.
The first plague-spot is the accumulation of wealth in few hands, and the selfish withdrawal of its possessors from the life of the community. In an agricultural society like that of Judah, that clotting of wealth took the shape of 'land-grabbing, and of evicting the small proprietors.
I cried, in perplexity. "What has he brought? An evil spirit? A mental disease? What is it? What CAN it be?" "A new agent of death, Petrie! Something born in a plague-spot of Burma the home of much that is unclean and much that is inexplicable. Heaven grant that we be in time, and are able to save Guthrie."
She seemed to be confessing, for the other man, something that might well be misunderstood. Jerome, ignoring the flag of her discomfort, went on painting, to give her room for confidence. "Is it that old plague-spot?" he asked. "Just what aspect does it bear to him? Why not talk freely about it?" "It is the old remorse. He misunderstood his brother when they two were left alone in the world.
Why not others as well so that they could work in unison?" "Don't you understand yet? You are not sane! This planet is a hell-house of disordered personalities, a place of horror, a plague-spot. Suppose I had retained Timmy as my voice and planned on releasing the inhibited potential of many people. I would have to start with one man and that one man would at once become my master!
They say Kisloch and his set pocket their fifty thousand by the job. 'May each dirhem prove a plague-spot! 'Amen! Dost remember Abner? 'May I slay my mother if I ever forget him. He spoke to his men like so many lambs. What has become of the Lady Miriam? 'She is here. 'That will cut Alroy. 'He was ever fond of her. Dost remember she gained Adoram's life?
Greystone Hall is beautiful as ever, with its handsome rooms, its extensive grounds, its winding walks, its bubbling fountains and its wealth of flowers, but there is a shadow over all a plague-spot which has eaten into the heart of Graham Thornton, and woven many a thread of silver among his raven locks.
"Accidents," indeed! Criminal negligence would be a more appropriate name. I have been publicly warned on pain of death, and heaven alone knows what hereafter, not to speak "disrespectful" of Baylor; but I feel in duty bound to caution parents against committing their children to such a pestiferous plague-spot, such a running sore upon the body social.
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