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Title: The International library of famous literature : selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes and with introductions
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: New York Merrill and Baker
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lmost impossible to overcome it; the utmostthat can be secured is temporary removal from danger. Thepatient may break from the keepers at any time, and be foundascending some stairway in search of some Central Office,or other headquarters of dangerous philanthropy. After all,there is probably no complete vacation for overworked saintsexcept an ocean voyage. True, they may be seasick, but eventhat may have its mission. For the real object of the wholeenterprise is to induce our saint to be a little selfish; and ifeven the pangs of seasickness fail to bring about that result,nothing else ever will, and the case is incurable. Mice and Martyrdom. That fine old Anglo-American or Americano-Englishman, R S , used to tell at his dinner table in London this story of a very celebrated English general. The military hero was once dining with Mr. S , when a stray mouse was seen running to and fro, looking for a hiding place. With onespring the general was on his chair ; with another, on the table.
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THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON WOMEN AND MEN. 7515 Amid much laughter the host rose and proceeded in the direc-tion of the mouse. Oh ! stop, S , shouted the man of war ; for Heavens sake dont exasperate him ! The exasperated mouse and the intimidated beholders arestill on duty, it seems, in Mr. Howells good-natured farce, The Mouse Trap ; but the lions are the painters, and the sexis conveniently changed. Every woman who comes into theroom in his little drama takes more or less gracefully to chairor table, when the mouse is announced; and even the Irishdomestic follows them, though I have generally found Bridgetready to enforce home rule vigorously on such intruders bythe aid of a pair of tongs. The only person in the tale who isnot frightened is a man, and he is not severely tested, inasmuchas it was he who invented the mouse. But he is all ready topunish the ladies for their timidity, and, with a disciplineseverer than that of the British army, prohibits them from everagain attacking th

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