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I shall endeavor to make duty a pleasure, and pleasure a duty. I shall remind myself that I am only performing the service to humanity that each one of you would willingly render if you were in my place. "My fellow-citizens, I thank you for your amiable confidence, and am happy to accept the nomination." There were some who criticized this speech on the ground that it was too academic.
They almost always speak too loud; their pronunciation is too exact, and leads to rough and coarse articulation; their accent is too pronounced, they choose their expressions badly, etc. But, to begin with, this extreme strikes me as much less dangerous than the other, for the first law of speech is to make oneself understood, and the chief fault is to fail to be understood.
"Our nashtio is old, but he is still stronger than you, Tyame. He is also wiser than all of us together. Our father is very strong, runs like a deer, and his eye is that of an eagle." There was something like irony in this speech, but Topanashka took no notice of it. He was looking for the tapop, a difficult task in the darkness, where a number of men are grouped in all kinds of postures.
Hearing this speech, I seemed to behold myself swinging by a tow from a tree branch, a death not beseeming one of gentle blood. Up and down I looked, in vain, and then I turned to the window, thinking that, as better was not to be, I might dive thence into the moat, and take my chance of escape by the stairs on the further side. But the window was heavily barred.
It rose to my mind when thy kinsman may Allah be thrice merciful to him! passed me with his speech of forgiveness, and this gift " he raised his hand, and looked at the ring on one of the fingers-"in place of which I was more deserving burial in the Bosphorus, as the black-browed Admiral said." A frown dark as the Admiral's roughened his smooth brow. "Why so?" she inquired.
All the rest are for war. But we mustn't give up; we must never feel afterward that we left anything undone; we must fight to the last breath!" "'Fight'?" he repeated wonderingly, then chuckled. "Oh, as a figure of speech," she said, impatiently. "Our language is full of barbaric figures left over from the dark ages.
Is it possible that I cannot speak to my own wife without bringing such an accusation upon myself! Well, well! And I'm slaving for you morning, noon, and night, to keep you in some sort of decency and comfort; and when I come home, and do my best to be cheery and amuse you, instead of being morose after the strain of the day, as most men are, all the thanks I get is a speech like that!
While we sat thus conversing, our boatmen went down along the beach, and around a little point that ran out into the lake, to bathe. They were jolly, but uncultivated men, given to rudeness and profanity of speech when out of our immediate presence, and by themselves, and we heard from them, while they were splashing and struggling in the water, expressions somewhat inelegant as well as profane.
And then, as Brian Walford was following them, 'Stay where you are, Brian, she said authoritatively. 'She shall see no one but me till to-morrow. You will drive her crazy among you all, if you are not careful. Miss Wendover took the girl away almost in her arms, and Brian Walford disappeared at the same time without further speech.
He talked to them and made them talk to him, and whatever they read was translated into speech; thought, in his house, was vocal. Mrs Hopgood, too, had been the intimate friend of her husband, and was the intimate friend of her daughters.
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