Vashti, Or, "Until Death Us Do Part": A Novel

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Carleton, 1908 - 8 strani
 

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Stran 36 - Let me but do my work from day to day, In field or forest, at the desk or loom, In roaring market-place or tranquil room; Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray : "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way.
Stran 260 - ... leave enough to pay their bills that it is a curce instead of a blessing, leaving unlimbered evils afollering in its train. This form of it is more deadly in its results than the fourth of July. The fourth commonly finishes up its victims to once eather...
Stran 261 - I've heard more than one lay it to the jenuerry thaw that they wan't feeling quite so spruce as they was along the first of the winter. At sech moments my eyes is more than likely to wander to some foolish hat-pin or weak-minded and unbecoming collarette that she dident have the privilidge of picking out herself and the remark forms itself inside me, "It's a case of a cute Christmassitis.
Stran 12 - Spinney says you can't rise with the lark if you've been on one the night before.
Stran 260 - You leave that out and it seems too much like bisness. But Christmas is carried to sech an excess by some foks that feel they must swap pressants with everybody they know, no matter if it...
Stran 68 - He had worked hard all his life and had nothing to show for it.
Stran 260 - There's an awfull lot of common sence in that bundle and very little foolishness. I think about 5 per cent of foolishness is about right for Christmas gifs.

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