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"I like post-mortems, but I don't approve of them." So she abandoned the post-mortem. "Tell me," she said, "why you married her? Was she an old flame?" "No, Lucy a new flame." "I hope you will be very, very happy," she said. "But you doubt it." "Why shouldn't I?" "Why indeed?" "Listen. It it wasn't any of it your fault.
"Of course," she said, "it's all right our meeting and speaking now." "Of course," I said, and they sounded lame words, lamely spoken. "Do you believe in post-mortems?" she asked. "No," I said, "but I like them." "We Oh, it's lucky we had parents and guardians, isn't it? When did you come to the end of your rope?" I could only shake my head. "Was it when you heard about me?"
This greater and truer love always made her behave abominably to the youth she had just jilted. She wasted no time on post-mortems. She was so eager to show her absolute loyalty to the new monarch that she grudged every thought she ever had given the one she had cast into exile. She resented him bitterly. She could not forgive him for having allowed her to be desperately in love with him.
"To hell with the constitution!" had been the word of the general in command; his subordinate had made famous the saying, "No habeas corpus; we'll give them post-mortems!" Tom Olson had impressed Hal with his self-control, but this old man made an even deeper impression upon him. As he listened, he became humble, touched with awe.
"That doesn't matter much," replied Billy. "And there's no use holding post-mortems. The thing is, what are we going to do?" "We're going to get out of here to-night without fail," said Frank decidedly. "The moon won't come up till late and if the night is cloudy it won't show up at all. At any rate we can't stay here.
There are Russians who think they can pull through without us, and, remembering the miracles of which man is capable when his back is to the wall, it would be rash to say that this is impossible. They are now coming to the mending, not of sick engines merely, but of engines on which post-mortems have already been held.
In all respects it was the best equipped hospital for professional experience of any that I knew anything about. There was one rigid rule that I believe was not carried out in any other hospital: post-mortems in all cases, numbering from one to a dozen daily, and all made with a thoroughness I have never seen in private practice.
It looked as if he and Thorndyke were contemplating a few private executions with subsequent post-mortems on the victims." "What a horrible suggestion!" "So Polton said, with his quaint, crinkly smile. But he was mighty close about the use of the apparatus all the same. I wonder if we shall see anything of the experiments, when we get there. This is Museum Street, isn't it?" "Yes."
Post-mortems," he pointed out, "are useful only as guides to the future, and as our future will never hold a second three thousand dollars, we needn't worry about how we spent the first one. No! What we must consider now is how we can grow rich quick, and the quicker and richer, the better. Pawning our clothes, or what's left of them, is bad economics.
"They make the rich obey their laws; they give them a chance, the same as everybody else, then if they don't obey they kill them just as many as they have to kill to make them obey. An' don't you do the same with the poor people? Ain't I seen you do it, every time there was a strike? Ask Colonel Nye there! Didn't he say: 'To hell with habeas corpus we'll give them post-mortems?"
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