Richard Forrest, Bachelor — page 148: what you’re looking at

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MISS CAMERON, THE MAGNET. 139 before them, their children will do it when they are dead and gone. What is the result? They are cruel and harsh toward each other and avaricious to the last degree. They realize only too well that they may starve or go in rags, and no hand will be held out to help them. So each does for himself, praying Allah to do for them all.”’ ‘‘And the dogs, poor forlorn beasts! take away all my in- terest in sight-seeing,’’ uttered Gertrude, dismally. ‘They are everywhere—lean, hollow-eyed, and ravenous—a per- petual nightmare. ”’ ‘‘I was about to give a biscuit to one of the worst speci- mens of doghood I ever saw yesterday,’’ said Miss Came- ron, ‘‘when a woman, so old and miserable that I am sure she had not a week to live, came hobbling up to me, and with the tears running down her cheeks, begged it of me.”’ ‘Suppose we get away to-morrow?” suggested Arthur, looking up from his letters. ‘‘I think I have had about enough of it myself, and the weather—ugh! I’ve almost forgotten how the sun looks.”’ | ‘With all my heart,’’ exclaimed his wife, fervently. “Do get the tickets at once—that’s my own, sweet pretty —before I quite expire of melancholia. No place can be more uncomfortable, at any rate.’”’ COMME NCO KS, (EC) im