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At various places along the several miles of fence gates were placed, with armed guards. Many other features were suggestive of war-times. One that impressed us most was that each workman had to carry a pass similar, almost, to a passport. This entire fence, we learned, was patrolled day and night by armed guards.
Fourth of July, elections and war-times you're the sovereign people, Tommy this and Tommy-rot; but for all practical purposes you're peons. "We're rich, we can afford a scratch-my-back-and-I'll-scratch-yours tariff that keeps our prices up arbitrarily, that takes fifty dollars out of your pockets to put in ours for every dollar it puts into the national treasury."
'Worse food, worse lodging, worse nursing and, I'm sore afraid, worse blood. There was too much filthiness and drunkenness went on in the old war-times, not to leave a taint behind it, for many a generation. The prosperity of fools shall destroy them! 'Oh! thought Lancelot, 'for some young sturdy Lancashire or Lothian blood, to put new life into the old frozen South Saxon veins!
We are in the midst of war, and in war-times the soldier must go whither he is sent." "Very well, Diurbanu," was the reply, "our soldiers will go whither they are sent. The wind can direct the storm-cloud whither it shall go, but cannot compel it to flash lightning and hurl thunderbolts at command." "But I know one storm-cloud," rejoined Diurbanu, "that has not withheld its thunderbolts."
Article II sought to regulate the income of priests-again a very suggestive request: preachers were to receive for their sustenance no more than the tithes, the remainder of the church-income was to be set aside so as to render it unnecessary to tax the poor in war-times.
Yet I have seen passable coffee made of poor material by an adept. Our dear old grandmother was compelled in war-times to make it from chicory, but would use no deception, so when she invited friends to take supper she would not say, 'Come to afternoon coffee, but 'Come to chicory." Paul in the meantime had set the table neatly, and had returned from the bakery with a fine large seed cake, Mrs.
Don Ricardo was not a Mexican. No, he was a good American citizen. It was something to make him sleep well in these war-times. "Just the same, I'll bet he'd sleep better if the Lewis outfit was cleaned up," Dave ventured, and Blaze agreed. Guzman caught his enemy's name and nodded. "Ah! That sin verguenza! He sells arms to the Candeleristas and horses to the Potosistas.
Of course I knew it was just an idyll of youth, a day long, and that the book was closed forty years before. But I could not bear to have it closed with a bang. Somewhere in the narrative had come to me the impression that the heroine of it had died young in those exciting war-times of long ago.
A puny little man, with thin yellow hair, and womanish face: but not the less the hero of his men, they having found out, somehow, that muscle was not the solidest thing to travel on in war-times. Our regiments of "roughs" were not altogether crowned with laurel at Manassas!
His hands yet stung from the contact of wood against steel, and his hair was damp at the edges. This was a bit of old war-times. "Are you hurt, Excellency?" asked the clerk solicitously. "Hurt?" "Yes. I heard a woman scream and ran to the window. It was a good fight. But that fellow-ach! To run away and leave you, an outsider, to fight his battle!"
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