----------- And always the pine tree had grown, insolent in the pride of a creature set in the right surroundings. The imprisoned man had felt himself dwarfed by its height. But now, he looked up at it again, and laughed aloud. It had come late, but it had come. He was fifty-seven years old, almost three-score, but all his life was still to be lived. He said to himself that some folks lived their lives while they did their work, but he had done all his tasks first, and now he could live. The unexpected arrival of the timber merchant and the sale of that piece of land hed never thought would bring him a cent -- was not that an evident sign that Providence was with him? He was too old and broken now to work his way about as he had planned at first, but here had come this six hundred dollars like rain from the sky. He would start as soon as he could sell his stock.
Some German words are so long that they have a perspective. Observe these
language complicated it all he could. When we wish to speak of our goodfriend or friends, in our enlightened tongue, we stick to the one form andhave no trouble or hard feeling about it; but with the German tongue it is
unfortunate. A Wife, here, has no sex; she is neuter; so, according to thegrammar, a fish is HE, his scales are SHE, but a fishwife is neither. Todescribe a wife as sexless may be called under-description; that is badenough, but over-description is surely worse. A German speaks of an
it is better to discard it.
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