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After a short period of activity, when the equal balance of loss and reparation is once removed, man quits the stage of life, and the law of mortality depopulates the earth.
The fire of hatred may be stifled, but it can never be quenched. We shall be quits some day, and you will regret bitterly that you have broken your word so lightly. My revenge the vengeance of a jealous woman will fall upon you at a moment and in a manner you will little dream of.
For quits he'd give up half, down, cash; And that, for one who had gone to smash, Was a liberal restitution: His neighbor Shent-per-Shent did sue On a better claim, and put it through, Recovered his suit, but not a sou At the tail of an execution.
"The darned fool," Kent commented, as he stopped in the first patch of lamplight to roll a cigarette. "He ain't got another friend in town that'd go to the trouble I've gone to for him. He'll realize it, too, when all that whisky quits stewing inside him." "Well, old-timer, how you coming? You sure do sleep sound this is the third time I've come to tell you breakfast is ready and then some.
I knew it!" gasped Sir George, in his hoarse, suffocated voice, and he fell back panting among his pillows. Charles took his hand from his face, and looked hard at me with a strange kind of smile. "At any rate we are quits, Middleton," he said. "You have done it now, and no mistake." I did not quite see what I had done, but it soon became apparent.
"I cannot be satisfied with a position of absolute dependence, from which I cannot escape except by bankruptcy. You know that I am completely in your power. You know very well that while you are talking to me now you contemplate making your usual condition before crying quits, as you express it.
The armies being joined, the king, who was now a match for Wallenstein, quits his camp and draws up in battalia before the Imperial trenches: but the scene was changed. Wallenstein was no more able to fight now than the king was before; but, keeping within his trenches, stood upon his guard. The king coming up close to his works, plants batteries, and cannonaded him in his very camp.
"I will repay you now for your hospitality," he said, "and then we shall be quits. I will spare you the shame by giving myself up. After all, what should I do now with my life?" "You could repent," answered Helene, and her glance conveyed such hope as only glows in a young girl's eyes. "I shall never repent," said the murderer in a sonorous voice, as he raised his head proudly.
I conceive I am a little more than quits. I owe you no explanation; yours has been the wrong. You, if you have studied my writing with intelligence, owe me a large debt of gratitude. And to conclude, as I have not yet finished my toilet, I imagine the courtesy of a turnkey to a prisoner would induce you to withdraw."
It is always safer to err in favour of others than of ourselves, and therefore we seldom hazard much by endeavouring to excel. It ought at least to be the care of learning, when she quits her exaltation, to descend with dignity. Nothing is more despicable than the airiness and jocularity of a man bred to severe science, and solitary meditation.
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