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'Ah! replied the elder lady, 'You won't talk like that when you have seen as much of the world as I have! Here, then, at last we have put our finger on the tragedy that threatens us in the forties. Why is it? The reason is not far to seek. The fact is that at forty a man must drop something. He has been all his life accumulating until he has become really overloaded.
"Tell me," asked the author, "is the disaster which threatens the husband in France quite inevitable?" "It is," replied the duchess, with a smile; "and the rage which certain women breathe out against those of their sex, whose unfortunate happiness it is to entertain a passion, proves what a burden to them is their chastity.
Speaking of this Bill, a gentleman whose opinion must carry much weight with it, says, that all acquainted with the subject admit the whole cost of thorough draining would be returned by the first crop, or the first two, or at least by the first three crops. "Under such circumstances," he asks, "how can the country be exposed to danger or suffering from an infliction such as now threatens?
Do we not feel it passing quicker and quicker every year? The one thing that is serious in all its shows and delusions is the question it puts to each one of us, and which we answer to our eternal loss or gain. Many different voices call to us in this age of false prophets, but one only threatens as well as invites. Would it not be only wise, prudent even, to give the preference to that? Mr.
"Not when she comes and interrupts the quiet execution of our laws by threats of blowing us and our city and our citizens to instant destruction!" "She would never have done it. I don't suppose that big gun is even loaded." "The more contemptible is her position. She threatens us with a lie in her mouth." "I know nothing about it, sir.
This instance is one among many of endeavors constantly being made by associated librarians to stem the ever increasing flood of poor fiction which threatens to submerge the better class of books in our public libraries. That no such wholesome attempt can be wholly successful is evident enough.
Say, fellows, make a note of this: If you question Jesus in the effort to trip Him, you throw yourself down; but if you question Jesus in order to know and do His will, you may confidently stand upon your feet and defy anything that threatens your peace, your happiness, or your success. "How can a fellow question Jesus in these days, like the Pharisees?" did I hear you ask?
For, as the boat is whisked out of their hands and swung up fathoms high, the English youth, heedless of Seagriff's shout, "Let go!" hangs on, bulldog-like, and is carried up along with her. The others have retreated up the slope, beyond reach of the wave which threatens to bear him off in its backward flow.
"Yes, I do reckon on you. But at this moment I need no help, and no personal danger threatens me. Now face round at once, and be off with you to your goats. I know my way to Pietranera, and I want no guides." "Fear nothing, Ors' Anton'," said the old man. "They would never dare to show their noses to-day. The mouse runs back to its hole when the tom-cat comes out!"
More quarrels! The chaouches are boiling over again; they must fight it out between them. No doubt they are both correct in exchanging the epithet of "thief." Scarcely has the grumbling of these two terrible fellows died away, when the blacks are at it amongst themselves. He who has two wives gets hold of his blunderbuss, and threatens to blow himself to pieces.
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