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For instance, before his performance, the Tumbler cries: "What am I doing? For there is none here so caitiff but who vies with all the rest in serving God after his trade." And after his act of devotion: "Lady, this is a choice performance. I do it for no other but for you; so aid me God, I do not for you and for your Son. And this I dare avouch and boast, that for me it is no play-work.
Years of study incessant lie before him; no life of a carpet-knight, no easy play-work of scraping colours on canvas. Why, these hands of mine have wielded not only the pencil but the scalpel; these eyes have rested on scenes of horror, misery crime, I glory in it; for it was all for Art.
Be sure, if God elects you, He elects you to suffering. Whom He loveth He chasteneth, and His stripes are not play-work. Ammon will not be conquered unless your heart be well nigh broken. I tell you, too, as Christ's minister, that you are not to direct your course according to your own desires. You are not to say, -'I will give up this and that so that I may be saved. Did not St.
He was now rich and retired, free to enjoy his play-work of the farm and to forget the troubles of the city and the telephone. But, as he stood among his barn-builders, there arrived from Boston and New York a delegation of telephone directors. Most of them belonged to the "Old Guard" of telephony.
So I didn't mind about the snow, for planning it all out, till all at once I looked up, and something slashed into my eyes and stung me, it was sleet. "Oho!" said I to myself, with a whistle, it was a very long whistle, Johnny; I knew well enough then it was no play-work I had before me till the sun went down, nor till morning either.
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