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The chair of the resident indeed stood vacant before the hearth but on either flank of it the figure of Bannon in explorer's kit of tweed shorts and salted cowhide brogues contrasted sharply with the primrose elegance and townbred manners of Malachi Roland St John Mulligan.
For what was it that still drew my brother to that maid who had ever pursued him and the object of his love with cruel hate so strongly, indeed, that he would have been ready to cherish and comfort her but joy at finding himself a mere townbred Junker preferred above that grand nobleman?
The winds sighed and rumbled about the hill-tops of the Orchar and the Black Laggan, but in the valley only the cool moist wind of dawn drew largely and statedly to and fro. Ralph loved Nature instinctively, and saw it as a townbred lad rarely does.
Never before has the effort been made to transplant, peacefully, in a short space of time, to another soil, several million people from various countries; never has it been attempted to transform millions of physically degenerate proletarians, without trade or profession, into agriculturists and cattle breeders, to bring townbred hucksters and trades people, agents, and men of sedentary occupation again into contact with the plough and the mother earth.
For what was it that still drew my brother to that maid who had ever pursued him and the object of his love with cruel hate so strongly, indeed, that he would have been ready to cherish and comfort her but joy at finding himself a mere townbred Junker preferred above that grand nobleman?
For what was it that still drew my brother to that maid who had ever pursued him and the object of his love with cruel hate so strongly, indeed, that he would have been ready to cherish and comfort her but joy at finding himself a mere townbred Junker preferred above that grand nobleman?
Kirillovna bought her freedom for a considerable sum and married for love a fair-haired young waiter who leads her a dreadful life; Avdotya lives as before among the maids in Lizaveta Prohorovna's house, but has sunk to a rather lower position; she is very poorly, almost dirtily dressed, and there is no trace left in her of the townbred airs and graces of a fashionable maid or of the habits of a prosperous innkeeper's wife.... No one takes any notice of her and she herself is glad to be unnoticed; old Petrovitch is dead and Akim is still wandering, a pilgrim, and God only knows how much longer his pilgrimage will last!
The movement for reciprocal lowering of the tariffs which hampered trade made rapid headway in the Provinces in the late forties and early fifties. British North America was passing out of the pioneer, self-sufficient stage, and now had a surplus to export as well as townbred needs to be supplied by imports.
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