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...thority to dismiss him, but I surely wished I could. I sighed, and finished grooming the horse. Since I had begun to care for the handsome animal, ... ...ger home and learn how to manage a household with servants. There would be children; that was viewed as a given, for a man in his position needed h... ...not take the words back. “She was beautiful ... is beautiful. And she was a child. I have seen so much more of life.” I reached out to touch the d... ...ter the tub had filled and then, picking me up as easily as though I were a child, walked down into the steaming water with me in his arms. “Does thi... ...on the water around my shoulders “It’s amazing,” I sighed. Erik smiled at my childlike delight in the warm, scented water. He made his way over to on... ... Giry had saved his life at different times, and I about growing up an only child whose friends were books and animals. We bathed one another until... ...more vigor. I handed my curry comb to Jamie to put away with the rest of the grooming tools and slipped my hand through the cheekpiece of poor Angel’... ...k, then my waistcoat and tie, and rolled up my sleeves. I picked up a soft grooming brush and stroked it across Angel’s red coat. Her eyes rolled, ...

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...ons undertaken by the EAST INDIA COMPANY and is considered, along with the abolition of slavery, child marriage, female infanticide and the practice... ...sition with incredulity. Did he really wish her to marry Gavin, the secret love of her life since childhood? Her heart was fluttering so rapidly tha... .... ‘What do you say, Helen?’ insisted her uncle. ‘I know you and Gavin were friends when you were children. It is not as if he is a stranger.’ ‘Uncl... ... as if he is a stranger.’ ‘Uncle’, whispered Helen, trying to compose her emotions. ‘I was but a child when I first met Gavin and over the years, be... ...is death, she had found work with the doctor’s family as housekeeper and nursemaid to their young child. She looked up as Helen stood in the doorway... ... Company and Sikh leaders and the morning he was leaving, he came to the stables where Helen was grooming Sultana. She did not hear him come in and...

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... Home Poetry of Healing and Abuse Our Love Alivid Moi Aussi Cutting to Existence A Hundred Children The Old Gods Wander In the Concentration Camp C... ...nd day out, he impelled his rickety pushcart to its concrete post, there dispensing to the children with a smile, a permanence till dusk. With sunse... ...post – older than the fading movie posters – watched the town transformed, roads asphalted, children turn adults, bringing their off-spring to buy f... ... rain forest. People cram into the passages, dragging nylon-roped shopping bags, shrieking children, and their own perspiring carcasses, their armp... ...stands mute, vigilantly monitoring the commotion. A passenger tilts and hisses in her ear: "Child murderer." She recoils from the gathering nightmar... ...ne. Long ago, I passed urine in an empty classroom in my school where they wasted mornings grooming dim-witted girls to be ineffectual secretaries....

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...er latch. “That’s OK, open it” whispered McVey. With the curiosity of a child, Amos gently lifted the latch and opened the box. Inside, nestle... ... small person. We walked up to see that Whitey was standing ten feet from a child. I wasn't sure if it was a boy or girl. The clothes looked more ... ...ooked more like a nightshirt than regular clothes and were wet and dirty. The child looked scared and was crying. Captain Daggot put his arms out a... ...ed scared and was crying. Captain Daggot put his arms out and approached the child slowly. "Settle down now, little one. We need to know who you ar... ...pened. We're not going to hurt you." Seeing that we were there to help, the child stopped crying and walked out into the sunlight. She told us he... ... the trail, you’ll be so fat you won’t be able to chase cattle!” I found a grooming brush and spent the next hour combing and talking to my buddy...

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...old age the enjoyment of spending time reliving the incidents of the past. Children were not nice neat dolls to which one claimed ownership, manhood h... ...ed but still noisome floor seemed cathartic. These actions were undeniably childish, but given the fact that the train personnel had mandated the pass... ... the fact that the train personnel had mandated the passengers, as naughty children, onto upper and lower sleepers regardless of their will as paying ... ...l earlier affairs. It was she who proposed this madness of him begetting a child. Begotten by the father and conceived by the friend, in a valid sense... .... Begotten by the father and conceived by the friend, in a valid sense the child would be a production of all three and, according to this plan of her... ...tray away disillusioned. This dog, suffering from malnutrition and lack of grooming, was prey to parasites. They laid siege on and within him. As all ...

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...e were rare dragons who mated more than once. This time it was Ch'ang-o, Child of the Moon, stunning in her glowing white scales and lace wings. A... ...e from Nü-kua’s golden tail. "I said that you're going to lure that poor child down into your learned lair." "It's nothing like that; she's lovel... ... "She's just playing the parent. Kuan-ti treated me like an empty- headed child. Of course, compared to him, I was. Ch'ang-o just takes her guardi... ...he air, and went to find saner company. Chapter 14 1655 words "Now children, stay together! Don't malinger. Let's get those blocks in caref... ...'re supposed to be. To show proper respect for their betters. Put aside childish games and antics. We must all contribute! We must conform! Co... ...o knows what with that stupid cat." Mei-chou didn't pause in her careful grooming to acknowledge the remark. "What was I supposed to do; sit here ... ...Clean! Rip and lick, rip and lick, over and over, he parodied primordial grooming. Rip and lick, rip and lick, until he collapsed to the cave floo...

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...he barn, letting his vision adjust to the interior lights. He grabbed Lazer’s grooming kit and tied the horse to a ring in his stall. The horse seeme... ...e case took precedence and unfortunately Lazer was the sacrifice. He finished grooming Lazer and stepped into Cisco’s stall. The Appaloosa flattened ... ...ized with his cranky personality. He’d never owned a more useful horse. The grooming ritual was a rare chance to spend time with his horses and he ... ...owever, the story about buying land did have its advantages since it would be child’s play to grill Julie on a trail ride. “That’s a good idea,” he s... ...rning thoughtful. “Maybe one of Sandra’s magnets would help. They use them on children with attention issues. They helped Sandra’s sister, and I’ve ... ...ly chuckled. “This tiny little thing is what you said would help?” “It helps children and adults focus, so why not horses?” She knew she sounded de... ...ed sigh. Lefty: gruff, single and a confirmed alcoholic. At least it wasn’t a child who had drowned. The Belmont track had two infield ponds, and the...

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...nds yet the heat of the President’s gaze made Jewels feel like a naughty child with one hand in the sweets jar. “Are the two of you finished talking... ...ll maintained and glowed with health. His tawny fur shone from his morning grooming. A palpable tension filled the air and it was a pleasant one to hi... ... it would still go on her record. He ground his teeth and cursed Maussey's childish need for payback. “Come on, Kid.” He scooped Jewels up. He made a... ...You humans want wealth, power, and glory without working for them. Foolish children. I know the Choosing ceremony starts in two days. I will be there... ...ier, or I swear I'll teleport you into an active volcano," Chris growled. "Children! Can we please focus? The Lupines are here. I have to go give a qu... ...A little communication and togetherness never hurt anyone. And what about children? Where do they stay?” “Usually with the mother until they are wean...

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... I. FROM MISS AURORA CHURCH, AT SEA, TO MISS WHITESIDE, IN PARIS. …My dear child, the bromide of sodium (if that’s what you call it) proved perfectly ... ...rt some religious poem. I was only five years old, and I believe that as a child I was extremely timid; on the other hand, mamma, as you know, was dre... ...pushed—morally speaking, bien entendu. It is true, however, that there are children of five on the vessel today who have been extremely conspicuous—ra... ...very big and black; he speaks with a sort of brogue; he has a wife and ten children; he is not very romantic. But he has lots of letters to people la-... ... It appears that this is a great distinction. It brings me back to my poor child and her prospects. She takes a very critical view of them herself: sh... ... lava- tories, and negroes who brush you with a big broom, as if they were grooming a horse. A bounding movement, a roaring noise, a crowd of people w...

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...nd houses. The Marquis de Ronquerolles had the misfortune to lose both his children at the time of the cholera, and the only son of Madame de Serizy, ... ...these days rich families stand be- tween the danger of impoverishing their children if they have too many, or of extinguishing their names if they hav... ...of a superior who seems to them to derogate from his position. “Ah! he was grooming Cora.” “Madame la comtesse intends to ride out this morning?” said... ...ew. “What a good soul he is!” said Adam. “He has all the sim- plicity of a child.” “Now tell me all about your relations with him,” said Clementine. “... ... and be a father and a brother and a 17 Balzac trusty confidant.’ My dear child, as Paz said that he had in his look and voice, calm as they were, a ... ...young count- ess, with a gesture worthy of some genius of the stage. “Dear child!” said Adam, pressing her to him, “it would have made me very unhappy...

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...ve settled down, than a skinflint and a sneckdraw, sitting, with his nose in an account book, to persecute poor tenants! One trollop, who had had a ch... ...elf to his wife and my Lord Durrisdeer; and on their part, they were never backward to make him welcome, turned to him smilingly as to an intruding ch... ...cked my vanity into an ulcer; he took it like a favour. She held him at the staff ’s end; forgot and then remembered and unbent to him, as we do to ch... ...he Master, “I think at the present time I would prefer to run a race with you.” And with the word claps spurs to his horse. Stewart ran after us, a ch... ...ving and crying out that his name was Satan, and his ship was called Hell. There was something about 34 The Master of Ballantrae him like a wicked ch... .... But the rest, having no such grounds of hope, fell to another pastime, that of computation. All day long they would he telling up their shares or gr... ...ing to them, would have been in all probability the means of our destruc- tion. There is altogether some excuse if Ballantrae showed something of a gr... ...ciation, scrupulous brother? It is one of my inter- ests in this dreary hole. I ever loved experiment.” Still Mr. Henry only stared upon him with a gr...

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...arved in oak, representing the carpenter’s shop at Nazareth, with the Holy Child instructed by Joseph in the use of tools, and the Mother sitting with... ...a, and blessing Master Gottfried for his flowing Latin assurances that the child should be to them even as the little maiden who was lying in the God’... ...s already in requisition for the choir. “Three cubits more,” he reckoned. “Child, hast thou found me fruits enough for the completing of this border?”... ...he phy- sician? He, too, might tell me the names of some of these.” “True, child; or we might ride into the country beyond the walls, and seek them. W... ...folly, and I might forget it,” replied Christina, looking down. “My gentle child!” the old man said approvingly. “More- over, if our good Raiser has h... ...tailor, i.e. the biggest and fiercest 33 Yo n g e of all the knappen, was grooming Nibelung; three long- backed, long-legged, frightful swine were gr...

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...irst is the bedroom of the head of the fam- ily, the second is that of the children. Guests were lodged in chambers beneath the roof. The servants sle... ...ich the man-of-all-work, named Gasselin, takes care of in the intervals of grooming the horses. At the farther end of the garden is a grotto with a se... ...ockchafer; then, as soon as it was caught, he would rush with the joy of a child to show his masters the noxious beast that had occupied his mind for ... ...uth. Mademoiselle Jacqueline has confidence in me. Besides, Calyste is our child, our pu- pil,—he will never let the devil inveigle him; neither will ... ...brought up by you, trained by me to Christian ideas, a fervent Catholic, a child who has lived as a lamb without spot, would plunge into such mire?” “... ...her as so dangerous for young souls by the rector—would have upon her only child, until then so guileless; as pure as an innocent girl, and beautiful ...

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...on,—and guard him when he goes out and when he comes in. Have mercy on the children I have toiled for, and teach me to judge and act for them aright i... ...ad to the world, under a cowl, then the Lady of Glenuskie, a king’s grand- child, may not be disposed of, save by her royal kinsman, or by those who, ... ... solemnly charged his Stewart nephews and brothers to leave his two orphan children to the sole charge of their mother’s cousin, Sir David Drummond, a... ...ere of obedience about the whole monastery, and the Prior added - ‘Yes, my children, it is but fitting that you should give thanks in the church for y... ...e captive knight, whose return to England could no longer be delayed. Poor children! while Sir James Stewart was in the Prior’s chamber, they sat sile... ...e courts of the Castle were filled with rude, savage-looking men, some few grooming horses, others with nothing to do but to shout forth their jeers a...

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... purpose, it would seem; and they come in rattle- boxes, they are actually children’s toys, for what they con- tain, but not the less do they buzz at ... ...e pride to his intellectual, in granting that he must have been shaken, so childishly did he continue thinking. Yes, well, and if a tumble distorts ou... ...d, paunchy, assiduously servile, are shown blacking Ben-Israel’s boots and grooming the princely stud of the Jew, had come so near to Victor Radnor’s ... ...lls us out more than I could have believed credible to be recollected by a child. But I’ve told you the story. We called her Fredi from that day. I se... ... down an alley some olive me- chanic of street-organs has quickened little children’s legs to rhythmic footing, they strike on thoughts braver than pa... ...ould not rack her with the old anxieties, beset her with suspicions… . ‘My child, you won’t possibly have time before the dinner- hour,’ she said to N...

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... had ever troubled to teach his mother any- thing about the mysteries of a child’s upbringing—though of course the monthly nurse and her charwoman gav... ...presented a glorious woman with a wise and fearless face stooping over her children and pointing them to far horizons. The sky displayed the pearly 8... ...vellously bright as if with the youth and hope of the delicately beautiful children in the foreground. She was tell- ing them, one felt, of the great ... ...emished hearts…. She was reminding them of their great heritage as English children, rulers of more than one-fifth of mankind, of the obligation to do... ...was in a thorough mess. The nice little curiosities and willingnesses of a child were in a jumbled and thwarted condition, hacked and cut about— the o... ...ings and the care of various poultry, bee-keeping, stabling, bait- ing and grooming horses and asses, cleaning and “garing” motor cars and bicycles, i...

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...he Murrays in the kirk of Monivaird, and set fire to it. The wives and the children of the ill-fated men, who had also found shelter in the church, pe... ...acGregors, or a particular race of them, known by the title of MacEagh, or Children of the Mist. They considered the forester’s hunting in their vicin... ...conveyed back to her home, and detained her there till she gave birth to a child, of whom she had been pregnant; after which she was observed graduall... ... pretty thick, what with pestilence and what with the sword, why we, their children, succeeded to their inheritance. Sir, I was six years first privat... ... state, and their incessantly wandering among the mountains and glens, the Children of the Mist. They are a fierce and hardy people, with all the irri... ...heu! as we used to say at Mareschal-College, must I leave Gustavus in such grooming!” “Are you frantic, to lose time thus!” said his guide; “do we sta...

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...came to know more about him years after, but I was a foolish thought- less child then, and I remembered only one thing he told us in his sermon. He to... ...hat now! Jesus Christ did really come down from heaven, as I, like a silly child, thought Mr. Wesley did; and what he came down for was to tell good n... ... comes from God. And he gave us our souls and put love between parents and children, and husband and wife. But is that as much as we want to know abou... ...ecause, he said, he was sorry for them; and he was very kind to the little children and comforted those who had lost their friends; and he spoke very ... ...aching had wrought in them at present. Y et no one had retired, except the children and “old Feyther Taft,” who being too deaf to catch many words, ha... ...wall, when John brought up Rattler. “An’ I wish he’d get the devil to do’s grooming for’n,” growled John. “Aye; he’d hev a deal haimabler groom nor wh...

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...city so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our child- hood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; ... ...hysterical sobbing. “Come, come,” said the old man, “be comforted, my poor child; there is still hope!” “Hope!” repeated Danglars. “Hope!” faintly mur... ...azed with unut- terable tenderness on the lovely speaker. “Let us hope, my child,” cried the marquis, “that M. de Villefort may prove the moral and po... ...nful auspices to accompany a betrothal,” sighed poor Renee. “Upon my word, child!” exclaimed the angry marquise, “your folly exceeds all bounds. I sho... ...Yes, to escort him into the capital. Really, my dear Gerard, you are but a child; you think yourself well informed because the tele- graph has told yo... ... a billiard-room, where he received his friends. He was superintending the grooming of his horse, and smoking his cigar at the entrance of the garden,...

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...and mishandled. I demand to be put ashore. Do you understand that?” “Angel child,” whimpered the big man. “Oh, you lilee of the vallee, you bright an’... ... to a man but once; but I’ll stretch the point just for love of you, angel child. Now, then, move!” Wilbur stood motionless—puzzled beyond expression.... ...her sails, calling impatiently for the wind, chafing at its absence like a child reft of a toy. Then again she scooped the nor’wester in the hollow pa... ...imagination. Josie Herrick, petite, gowned in white, crisp from her maid’s grooming; and Moran, sea-rover and daughter of a hundred Vikings, towering ...

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...im on earth! He’s being driven! … Oh, little mother, take pity on thy poor child.” All the contradictions of Gogol’s character are not to be disposed ... ...tail, while never forgetting to be as simple of speech as though he were a child, and at every step there were a danger of employing terms beyond his ... ...e old housekeeper is cutting it into cubes before the open window, and the children of the house crowd around her to watch the movements of her rugged... ...r bodies under the wings, of extending their forelegs over their heads and grooming themselves, and of flying out of the win- dow again to return with... ...house, while the ser- vant tied up the boys’ necks in bibs. “What charming children!” said Chichikov as he gazed at the pair. “And how old are they?” ... ...th an air of surprise to the father. “Indeed, I feel bound to say that the child evinces the greatest possible potentialities.” “You do not know him f... ...portion of his cheeks, strongly resembled the curry-comb which is used for grooming horses. Chichikov assumed a questioning air, and waited to hear wh...

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... care on poppies, and she had been heard to say that, while she lived, her children should be fully fed. The encourage- ment of flaunting weeds in a d... ...d, ‘Good bread, and good beef, and enough of both, make good blood; and my children shall be stout.’ This is such a thing as maybe announced by foreig... ...ded an equivalent for its beef and divers economies consumed by the hungry children of the authoritative woman. Practically it was obedient, for it ha... ...aded in theory. Wrexby, therefore, ac- quiesced in helping to build up her children to stoutness, and but for the blindness of all people, save artist... ...ner of prophecy, and bade his wife to see what would come of having dainty children. He could not deny that bread and beef made blood, and were cheape... ...rmer Eccles in the stables, she found the sturdy yeoman himself engaged in grooming Robert’s horse. “Well, Missis,” he said, nodding to her; “you win,...

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...’no, you won’t.’ ‘You claim a paternal right to refuse me: my wife is your child. Good. I wish to see my son.’ On that point the squire was equally de... ...d, sir, do you?’ ‘I do.’ ‘Then I do similarly.’ ‘What! Stop! Not to take a child like that out of a comfort- able house at night in Winter, man?’ 11 ... ...peaks of you. I give you my word, you ‘re never mentioned by man, woman or child in the house.’ ‘Silence concerning a father insinuates dishonour, Mr.... ...me; I was not even to wish to go. And then she exclaimed, ‘Oh, the blessed child’s poor papa!’ and that people were cruel to him, and would never take... ...bered of my mother. The ladies observed that it was clear I was a romantic child. I noticed that the old gentleman said ‘Humph,’ very often, and his e... ...t inclination to go as hard as you have been going, but he shall have good grooming in the prince’s stables, and that ‘s less than half as near again ...

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...ny citizens, seeing the women flying toward the High Street, leaving their children crying at the open doors, hastened to don the cuirass, and support... ... Treville, who was formerly my neighbor, and who had the honor to be, as a child, the play-fellow of our king, Louis XIII, whom God preserve! Sometime... ...ter responsibility than the father of an ordinary family. Soldiers are big children; but as I main- tain that the orders of the king, and more particu... ...reville smiled; but as it was indeed something to have prevailed upon this child to rebel against his master, he sa- luted the king respectfully, and ... ...ng in this respect the inveterate hatred he had borne to scholars from his childhood. He had not so noble an air as Athos, and the commencement of the... ...already arrived. 229 Alexandre Dumas Planchet, all astonishment, was busy grooming them, and had already finished two. “Ah, monsieur,” said Planchet,...

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...ed in American experience. SHERWOOD ANDERSON was born in Ohio in 1876. His childhood and youth in Clyde, a town with per- haps three thousand souls, w... ...of the active practitioners of the town had come quickly but had found the child dead. From the crowd someone had run to the office of Doctor Parcival... ...arcival who had bluntly refused to go down out of his of- fice to the dead child. The useless cruelty of his refusal had passed unnoticed. Indeed, the... ...very day from sunrise until late at night and then after giving birth to a child she died. As for Jesse Bentley—although he was a deli- cately built m... ...f stature. His mouth was like the mouth of a sensitive and very determined child. Jesse Bentley was a fanatic. He was a man born out of his time and p... ...n the stables, and one of the farm hands spoke sharply to the horse he was grooming by the stable door. David leaped out of bed and ran to a window. A...

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...t the tele- graph gives us good warning. O sons of unthinkable beget- ting—children of unspeakable shame—are we here for the look of the thing?” It wa... ... atop. T ruly, Mother Gunga is always young!” said Ganesh the Elephant. “A child had not spoken more foolishly. Let the dirt dig in the dirt ere it re... ...arling of the Gopis, the idol of dreaming maids and of moth- ers ere their children are born—Krishna the W ell-beloved. He stooped to knot up his long... ...—of the young girls, and the young men who sing to them in the dark of the child that will be born next morn— of that which was begotten tonight,” sai... ...on the in- alienable rights of the horse, pure and simple,- the high-toned child o’ nature, fed by the same wavin’ grass, cooled by the same ripplin’ ... ...guides, but the first blow had been struck. They spent the rest of the day grooming the donkey-engine, which stood immediately forward of the engine-r...

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... in relation to Captain Con; but the remark ensuing calmed him: ‘He has no children.’ ‘No, sir; Captain Con wasn’t born to increase the number of our ... ...der and ladder and silver ladder high above your hair-splitting pates, you children of earth, and it is not for you to act on the verdict in decrying ... ...pity the poor gentleman’s melancholy state of soli- tariness, with all his children absent, his wife dead, only a niece, a young lady of twenty, to le... ... hatred so reckoned it; for he could not deny his daughter in the father’s child; he could not exclude its unhallowed father in the mother’s: and of t... ...could not exclude its unhallowed father in the mother’s: and of this man’s child he must know and own himself the grand- father. If ever he saw the ch... ...ir of recovered ease, not to say genial triumph, to think that the feat of grooming himself, washing, dressing and strip- 39 George Meredith ping, th...

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...amped. The proletarian is with- out property; his relation to his wife and children has no longer 19 Bertrand Russell anything in common with the bou... ...known in other parts of the kingdom, indeed, in the civilized world. . . . Children of nine or ten years are dragged from their squalid beds at two, t... ..., and to be branded with an S. All persons have the right to take away the children of the vagabonds and to keep them as apprentices, the young men un... ...hen he kept them hungry and thirsty, trotting them and galloping them, and grooming, and trimming, with the misery of the tasselled bridle before and ... ... in which, as the result of the fire of the militia, a number of women and children were burned to death.[Literary Digest, May 2 and May 16, 1914.] Ma... ... we did not waste our productive powers as we do waste them now. As to the childish ques- tion, repeated for fifty years: ‘Who would do disagreeable w...

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...ime, in his fifteenth year. In a city, fifteen years are no long period —a child may be still a child in his third lustrum: but in a wilderness —in so... ...stable, too, was appointed at a distance from the rest; and with regard to grooming and other necessary offices, none but the owner in person had vent... ...stle in the streets were terrible. Men were talking. Women were screaming. Children were choking. Pigs were whistling. Carts they rattled. Bulls they ... ...kes much ado before he can get suited with a board- ing house. He dislikes children. He has been accustomed to quiet. His habits are methodical—and th... ...e captain and his wife, Mr. Wyatt and party, a Mexican officer, wife, four children, and myself, with a negro valet. We had no room, of course, for an... ...vented by M. Camus for the amusement of Louis XIV 159 V olume Four when a child. A table, about four feet square, was introduced, into the room appro...