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There were not hammocks enough on board, and the men of the two next messes laid hold of hammocks for themselves as soon as they got on board, and squeezed my men out, as I may say. 'Had the squeezed-out men none then? 'None, sir. As men died, their hammocks were used by other men, who wanted hammocks; but many men had none at all. 'Then you don't agree with the evidence on that point?
Don't talk about lawyers." "My God!" said Maurice; "did you suppose it was that?" Mr. Houghton stopped biting the end of his cigar, and looked at him. "Why, yes; I did. You and she are rather foolish, you know. So I supposed " Maurice dropped his face on his arms on the big dusty table, littered with pamphlets and charcoal studies and squeezed-out paint tubes.
So deeply was I impressed with the responsibility of what I had undertaken, so grimly was I haunted by the sight of the pallid, howling travesty of a man and the squeezed-out, whimpering woman, that the memory of the conflicting emotions that had driven me to Campion the night before returned to me with a shock. "It strikes me," I murmured, as I shaved, "that I am living very intensely indeed.
He knew it," she repeated, raising the tone to an almost hysterical pitch, "led me on, made me love him because he could give them all to me. And when I began to show the strain of the pace-they all show it more than the men he cast me aside like a squeezed-out lemon." As she listened, Constance understood it all now.
It is the nightmare of life that rides us to discomfort, wretchedness, despair, and to that death-in-life that is no life at all. It is the vampire that sucks out the good of us and leaves us like the rind of a squeezed-out orange; it is the cooking-process that extracts and wastes all the nutritious juices of the meat and leaves nothing but the useless and tasteless fibre.
Was it for this, he must have muttered, that I forced on the war which gave Prussia Schleswig and Holstein in 1864; that I compelled unwilling Austria to declare war in 1866; that, by the freest circulation of exaggerated statements, I roused a bitter feeling in Germany against France, and excited the statesmen, and, above all, the mob, of Paris in 1870? for this, that, the work accomplished, an empire given to the Hohenzollerns, I might be cast aside like a squeezed-out orange?
And when I began to show the strain of the pace we all show it more than the men he cast me aside, like a squeezed-out lemon." Sybil Seymour was talking rapidly, but she was not hysterical. "Already you know Betty Blackwell's story part of it," she hurried on. "Miss Kendall has told me how she was bribed to disappear. But beyond that what?" For a moment she paused. No one said a word.
She slid her arm along the back of the bench and clasped the skinniest of shoulders. "Don't cry!" "It was my first. I'm thirty-eight. I'll never 'ave another. Oh! Why didn't I go in the water?" The face puckered again, and the squeezed-out tears ran down.
Is Phelps to be cast aside like a squeezed-out lemon, and Leigh taken on for a new citrus fruit?" Millard smiled. He said nothing, but the knowing glance was confirmation enough that in his opinion Kennedy had expressed the state of affairs correctly.
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