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...enslavers of the Nation and give the Third Internationale the possibility to continue its destructive propaganda in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. The object of this propaganda is world upheaval-that is to say, the ruin of Christian civilization and the plunging of the entire earth into the dark abyss of barbarism, pauperism and serfdom to the advantage and satisfaction of only a small group of fanatics and a dissolute group of men who have lost honor and conscience, and hope to exploit this upheaval for the gratification of their cupidity and vicious appetites...
...there was Alix, her daughter, a grave, dark child in her mid-teens. Alix spent half the year with her father's father, the remainder with Maman, under the terms of the divorce. Tradition, strongest in the outcast, dictated innocence for a jeune fille; ultimately a husband, un foyer. For jungle life outside society's pale, however free and beautiful, had its fierce dangers, its pain. A mother seeks to spare her daughter these-and Madame Vervier was a devoted mother...
...Certainly there is less water. There are no great oceans there, as here, but rather little seas-Mediterraneans. The many spotted patches of dark green no doubt are caused by vegetation and marshes, with long, floating weeds, like the famous Sargasso, in which the descendants of Columbus lost themselves. There are cool, rosy dawns, scorching noons and golden sunsets, as with us, but more serene harmony...
...profound. Questions are always being subtly provoked that are easy enough to answer at a dinner table within hearing of a hotel orchestra-not so easy when one can catch far off, as it were, the challenge of the ageless cataracts of life and death thundering forever in the dark places of the world. In one passage, Mr, Powys recounts talking with a Kikuyu who asked him solemnly if he were aware that elephants had once been men: "He looked so serious when he asked the question that, on my soul, I was half inclined to believe him. I tell...
...when Edith battled her from dormie two to a win at the 20th. There are Mrs. Hurd and Mrs. Barlow of Philadelphia, Louise Fordyce of Ohio, and Miriam Burns of Kansas, but none of these looms really large. Barring a vagrant, unpredictable typhoon, the only disturbance charted is the dark little terror whose native haunt is Providence-Glenna. She is indeed a thundercloud, always has been, particularly for Edith. The two have met once this year - in the finals of the Buffalo invitation matches. Glenna...