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Updated: May 18, 2025
To grasp life, as the eagle claws its prey, to bear it up into the air, to rise with it into the serenity of space!... For that you need talons, great wings, and a strong heart. But you are nothing but sparrows who, when they find a piece of carrion, rend it here and there, squabbling for it, and twittering ... Art for art's sake!... Oh! wretched men!
It was a good thing, in fact, that Apollon distracted my attention at that time by his rudeness. He drove me beyond all patience! He was the bane of my life, the curse laid upon me by Providence. We had been squabbling continually for years, and I hated him. My God, how I hated him! I believe I had never hated anyone in my life as I hated him, especially at some moments.
Had it been broken, the omen would have been unfortunate; as it was, the governor was highly pleased, and ordered the poor to be called in to lick up the honey. They rushed in, squabbling among themselves. One old man, having a long beard, came off with a double allowance, for he let it sweep up the honey and then sucked it clean.
Derrick drew himself up to a sitting position. There was an air of mastery about him as he raised a determined face to hers. "Averil," he said suddenly, "you aren't going to send me to the right-about again, are you?" "Oh, don't let us squabble on your first night!" said Averil hastily. "Squabble!" the boy exclaimed, springing to his feet vigorously. "Do you call that squabbling?"
"We have to vote about that," returned Marjorie, "and I do hope, my courtiers, that we won't have any squabbling before our royal visitor, Miss Princess Sand, Sand well, San Diego is the only name I can think of for Kit!" "Hail, Princess Sandeago!" cried Tom, and all the courtiers ducked almost to the ground in low bows.
Drunkards were already installed in the wineshops, squabbling and gesticulating. And there was a cursed noise on all sides, voices shouting amid the constant clatter of feet on the pavement. "Say, are you coming to sip?" "Make haste, old man; I'll pay for a glass of bottled wine." "Here's Pauline! Shan't we just laugh!"
The lictors and townwatch could generally succeed in parting the combatants, for the orders of the authorities were that they should in every case side with the Romans. The shouts and squabbling of men, the laughing and singing of women, mingled with the word of command.
Ah, how much better is such a government as his than one which every four years causes a sort of moral earthquake; or one like ours, where whole sessions are passed in squabbling! The loss of his place has saved Disraeli's life, for everybody said he could not have survived three months' badgering in the House.
And outside, I saw the pasty-faced crowd waiting to get in, and all the Sunday litter in the road. Parson, I got the smell of it, the sick, stale smell of it, right here in Paradise; I got the frowsy smell of it, and heard the waily children squabbling, and I can't tell you any more of what I saw. If you'd ever seen it, you'd know. "And there he stopped again, until I moved.
At all events, he was drunk as David's sow, and squabbling over, saving your presence, a woman of the sort one looks to find in that abominable hole. And so, as I was saying, this other drunken rascal dug a knife into him " But now, to Captain Musgrave's discomfort, Cynthia Allonby had begun to weep heartbrokenly. So he cleared his throat, and he patted the back of her hand.
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