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Page 84
... wall , but wipe off their gold spectacles , and put on their best kid gloves , and unroll their morocco - covered sermon , and look bashful when they begin to speak about the sins of our day , as though it were a shame even to mention ...
... wall , but wipe off their gold spectacles , and put on their best kid gloves , and unroll their morocco - covered sermon , and look bashful when they begin to speak about the sins of our day , as though it were a shame even to mention ...
Page 93
... Wall street , and I don't see anything . " No , you do not want to see ! The King and the Parliament of England did not know that there were thirty - six bar- rels of gunpowder rolled into the vaults under the Par- liament House . They ...
... Wall street , and I don't see anything . " No , you do not want to see ! The King and the Parliament of England did not know that there were thirty - six bar- rels of gunpowder rolled into the vaults under the Par- liament House . They ...
Page 95
... cursing God , cursing each other ; the past all shame , the future all suffering . Chil dren fleeing from the missile flung by a father's hand . Fragments of a chair propped against the wall . Frag UNDER THE POLICE LANTERN . 95.
... cursing God , cursing each other ; the past all shame , the future all suffering . Chil dren fleeing from the missile flung by a father's hand . Fragments of a chair propped against the wall . Frag UNDER THE POLICE LANTERN . 95.
Page 96
Thomas De Witt Talmage. Fragments of a chair propped against the wall . Frag . ments of a pitcher standing on the mantle . A pile of refuse food brought in from some kitchen , torn by the human swine plunging into the trough . Magic ...
Thomas De Witt Talmage. Fragments of a chair propped against the wall . Frag . ments of a pitcher standing on the mantle . A pile of refuse food brought in from some kitchen , torn by the human swine plunging into the trough . Magic ...
Page 102
... Wall street , and by the two rows of gas- lights , saw that on all that street there was not a foot stirring . And yet there seemed to come up on the night air the cachinnation of those on whose hands the stocks had gone up , and the ...
... Wall street , and by the two rows of gas- lights , saw that on all that street there was not a foot stirring . And yet there seemed to come up on the night air the cachinnation of those on whose hands the stocks had gone up , and the ...
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