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And now, mark what poor strugglers we are in the eternal web of destiny! Three days after that deed, a relation who neglected me in life, died, and left me wealth! wealth at least to me! Wealth, greater than that for which I had . . .! The news fell on me as a thunderbolt. Had I waited but three little days!
Continue to look at this crowd, so pitiful, so terrible, such a melancholy waste of incalculable power continue to observe and you may chance upon an example of the third type. You are likely at first to confuse the third type with the second, for they seem to be much alike. Here and there, of the resentful strugglers, will be one whose resentment is intelligent.
But hang politics; it always brings disagreeable reflections. Glad, my old pupil, glad am I to see that you still retain your august contempt for these foolish strugglers insects splashing and panting in the vast stream of events, which they scarcely stir, and in which they scarcely drop before they are drowned " "Or the fishes, their passions, devour them," said Godolphin.
From a printed curiosity a letter written by one of those brave and confident Hindoo strugglers with the English tongue, called a "babu" I got a more compressed translation: "Godville." It is perfectly correct, but that is the most that can be said for it. We arrived in the forenoon, and short-handed; for Satan got left behind somewhere that morning, and did not overtake us until after nightfall.
You people who have been coddled and petted must learn it, too; and for you it is harder to learn, but pleasanter in the learning, because you stand above the bare need of things, and have leisure for the adornments. We must all be fighters and strugglers, Lewie, and it is better to wear out than to rust out.
This faith was a simple and uncritical one, enlivened with an element of genial optimism, in the light of which it appeared that the great American state was not as other human institutions are, that a special Providence watched over it, that it would go on joyously for ever, and that a country whose vast and blooming bosom offered a refuge to the strugglers and seekers of all the rest of the world, must come off easily, in the battle of the ages.
But hang politics; it always brings disagreeable reflections. Glad, my old pupil, glad am I to see that you still retain your august contempt for these foolish strugglers insects splashing and panting in the vast stream of events, which they scarcely stir, and in which they scarcely drop before they are drowned " "Or the fishes, their passions, devour them," said Godolphin.
Notice that, ye strugglers for preferment, and how beautifully modest Hawthorne is, when he writes in his Florentine diary: "In a year's time, with the advantage of access to this magnificent gallery, I think I might come to have some little knowledge of pictures. At present I still know nothing; but am glad to find myself capable, at least, of loving one picture better than another.
"It is what I have been working for." "And very hard you have worked." Mr. Malcolm's cold face relaxed into a half-friendly, half-satirical smile. "After you'd been sending up articles for a fortnight, I knew you'd make it. You went about it systematically. An intelligent plan, persisted in, is hard to beat in this world of laggards and hap-hazard strugglers."
The guns, with their creaking locks, were pointed menacingly at us; the steel points of the bayonets were pointed at our hearts. The song resounded louder and louder, with increasing joy. Held in the friendly hands of the 'strugglers, the black coffin slowly sank into the earth. "We sang the Marseillaise!"
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