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You surely ought not to regret the cordon sanitaire which protects you from the utter weariness, the loss of time, I might almost add of temper, which uncongenial society would entail upon you. In the affairs of life, you must generally make up your mind as to the good that deserves your preference, and resolutely sacrifice the inferior advantage which cannot be enjoyed with the greater one.
"We've got inspection of the trains, we've got some sort of command of the foreshores, we've got the water changed in the mosques, we've closed the fountains, we've stopped the markets, we've put Sublimate Pasha and Limewash Effendi on the war-path, and " "And the natives believe in lighted tar-barrels and a cordon sanitaire!
The whole policy of the government is directed towards maintaining the country in a state of isolation, towards drawing, in fact, a moral cordon sanitaire round the Papal dominions. Indeed, if one lived long in Rome, one would get to doubt the reality of anything.
Then I realized the absurdity of the situation, and laughed. "Sais pas." The questionnaire continued: "You were in the Red Cross?" "Surely, in the Norton Harjes Ambulance, Section Sanitaire Vingt-et-Un." "You had a friend there?" "Naturally." "Il a ecrit, votre ami, des betises, n'est ce pas?" "So they told me. N'en sais rien." "What sort of person was your friend?"
This will be difficult: the determination of the North to restrict the area of slavery by forbidding its ingress into future territories and States has been considered by the slaveholders a wrong, and a danger justifying a bloody civil war; inasmuch as, if under those circumstances they did not abolish slavery themselves in a given number of years, it would infallibly abolish them by the increase of the negro population, hemmed with them into a restricted space by this cordon sanitaire drawn round them.
The case resembles the diffusion of vegetable seeds through the air and through the waters; draw a cordon sanitaire against dandelion or thistledown, and see if the armies of earth would suffice to interrupt this process of radiation, which yet is but the distribution of weeds. Suppose, for instance, the text about the three heavenly witnesses to have been eliminated finally as an interpolation.
"I think I'll turn in" I said to the neighbouring darkness. "That's what I'm doing" B.'s voice said. "By God" I said, "this is the finest place I've ever been in my life." "It's the finest place in the world" said B.'s voice. "Thank Heaven, we're out of A.'s way and the Section Sanitaire," I grunted as I placed my boots where a pillow might have been imagined. "Amen" B.'s voice said.
I engaged my passage in the diligence for Mannheim, and, for the first time since I have been in Europe, set out alone.... I learn from the gentleman in the coach that the cordon sanitaire in France is to be enforced with great rigor from the 11th of September; I hope, therefore, to get into France before that date. "September 10, Saarbruck.
I sent someone over to Quincy at once to see if it was true, and word came back that Captain Norton's American Corps Sanitaire forty men who have been with this same division, the 31st Corps for many months had arrived from Verdun with the 65th Regiment, and was to follow it into action when it advanced again.
"We've got inspection of the trains, we've got some sort of command of the foreshores, we've got the water changed in the mosques, we've closed the fountains, we've stopped the markets, we've put Sublimate Pasha and Limewash Effendi on the war-path, and " "And the natives believe in lighted tar-barrels and a cordon sanitaire!
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