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The Malady of the Century

CHAPTER IV
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All he has to do is not to go out of their way." "Ought not there to be an individual one ?" "I venture to say no.

The story of the pine trees of Ritter Toggenburg, which love the palm trees, is the creation of a sentimental poet.
Lawgivers in India to all appearance believe in faithfulness unto death; and the widow or even the betrothed follows her husband to the grave of her own free will.

This free-will offering only comes, however, by aid of the sharpest threatening of punishment.

I have known fourteen-year-old widows who offered themselves miserably to be burned.
If they had known how soon they would be consoled, and new love sprang up, they would have violently resisted such suicide! Bhani there is a living example of this," As she heard her name she looked up, and Wilhelm intercepted a look between her and Dr.Schrotter, which all at once made clear to him what he had vaguely suspected before.

He turned his head sadly toward the window, and looked out into the foggy autumn evening.


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