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...wife, but who married her before the airplane fell. She pities him, and all her love is for his virile brother. She shows the innocence and lack of premeditation of her passion by conceiving a child; but before the crippled husband--far too crippled to be a father--finds aught amiss, he awakes one morning, dead. Everything would have been all right had not the perspicacious nurse discovered that an overdose of sleeping powders had killed him. This Nurse Wayland had loved the handsome cripple in her own starved, soulful way. She accuses the adulterous wife, but lives...
...author perchance pick his 'young ladies' in a bawdy house? . . . Caricature. . . . Unsullied reputation of our Creole maidens. . . . Nauseating. . . . Filthiness. ... A monstrous slander of the purest womanhood to be found in the U. S. . . . Slimy animalism and mental filth. . . . The author might be a handsome young man for aught we know. The skunk also is a beautiful animal...
...distinguished Ambassador Schurman to say that the Bremen's launching oration was pronounced by a mightier Man. A roar of welcome went up from 50,000 throats as He arrived, striding with ponderous tread, nodding gravely at the plaudits, a man too old and too great to receive aught but universal homage...
...loud and doleful need the cries no longer be. For pause but a moment to think: Was there aught in all the lectures of this half year that merited as much as mention in an exam? J. Pendergast Elliott...
...truly lived as aught we live...