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Of all the band of female iconoclasts, as the Hon. Mr. Screed called us in jest it was no jest afterwards, HIS image being the first to go down of all, I say, "some are married, and some are dead," and there is really no one left so familiar with the circumstances as I am, and equally competent to give a report of them. Mr.
Don't be frightened or trouble about me. All will be well, all will be quite well. I will tell you the rest when we meet." Horrorstruck I translated this insane screed to Umslopogaas and Hans. The former nodded gravely. "Did I not tell you that he was talking with his Spirit, Macumazahn?" It is finished."
They have been fenced off from each other by political boundaries, and have no such coherence among themselves as would come from common leadership or a sense of common origin and mutual dependence. And they are a people without annals. Back of their grandfathers they have neither screed nor hearsay.
Wilson," it ended, "is trying to make for himself a place in history, at the expense of the flesh and blood of his countrymen." This vile and despicable screed was printed from the same queer type as the former circulars denouncing the Liberty Bond sale and evidently emanated from the same source.
My name wasn't in the index, but Yes! he said with a sudden change of tone. 'That's what I'd forgotten. Where's that bit of paper? Give it me back. I, too, had forgotten that cryptic screed. I found it fallen on the floor, and handed it to him. He smoothed it out, nodding and smiling at me disagreeably. 'I found myself glancing through Nupton's book, he resumed. 'Not very easy reading.
Even we, posterity, think far less of St. Peter than of Bellini when we see this picture; St. Peter is no more to us than the blue harmony of those little hills beyond, or than that little sparrow perched on a twig in the foreground. After all, there have been so many martyrs and so many martyrs named Peter but so few great painters. The little screed on the fence is no mere vain anachronism.
With care we may clear a couple of thousand out of book number two, even on that precious screed you call an agreement. Perhaps more. Perhaps I may have a pleasant little surprise for you. Then you shall do a long book, and we'll begin to make money, real money. Oh, you can do it! I've no fear at all of you fizzling out. You simply go home and sit down and write. I'll attend to the rest.
'Made a public announcement of principle, said Lily. 'I was determined to give her a reason, said the Marquis, laughing, 'but I assure you I felt like the stork with its head in the wolf's mouth, I thought she would give me a screed of doctrine. How came you to let your property get unto her clutches, Emily? 'It was a subscription for Mrs. Aylmer, said Emily.
"A letter three days ago, just after you were here the last time." The room smiled. "It was what Edward calls a screed," said Molly; "there wasn't a thing about war in it." Unity stirred the fire, making the sparks go up chimney. "Five pages about Massanutton in her autumn robes, and a sonnet to the Shenandoah! I like Edward." At ten o'clock Cousin William rode away.
As what I wrote preceded the debates and events of the last six months, I may not improperly make the following quotation from a screed of mine appearing in The Courier-Journal of the 5th of March, 1919: "The League of Nations is a fad. Politics, like society and letters, has its fads. In society they call them fashion and in literature originality. Politics gives the name of 'issues' to its fads.
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