Thread: The Momentum Investor
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From: bart b. <bu...@ao...> - 2006-10-26 14:36:51
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<HTML> <BODY> <img src="cid:kwK3h0nuFTQ8LxHHsOKLiXDX3gr6Cp1Zy2NaeSg"> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------------<BR> Before he went into the house after his evening chores were done, he stopped for a moment and looked back at the cleft in the mountain wall through which the railroad left the valley. He had been looking longingly toward that door of escape all his life, and now he said good-by to it. Ah well, twant to be, he said, with an accent of weary finality; but then, suddenly out of the chill which oppressed his heart there sprang a last searing blast of astonished anguish. It was as if he realized for the first time all that had befallen him since the morning. He was racked by a horrified desolation that made his sturdy old body stagger as if under an unexpected blow. As he reeled he flung his arm about the pine tree and so stood for a time, shaking in a paroxysm which left him breathless when it passed. sentence, in a German newspaper, is a sublime and impressive curiosity; itoccupies a quarter of a column; it contains all the ten parts of speech --not in regular order, but mixed; it is built mainly of compound wordsonstructed by the writer on the spot, and not to be found in any dictionaryGerman novel -- which a slight parenthesis in it. I will make a perfectlyliteral translation, and throw in the parenthesis-marks and some hyphens for Jehiel gave no indication that he had heard. His faded old blue eyes were fixed steadily on the single crack in the rampart of mountains, through which the afternoon train was just now leaving the valley. Its whistle echoed back hollowly, as it fled away from the prison walls into the great world. I came off here because I couldnt hold in at home any longer, answered the other between sobs. You see I cant go away. Her husband treats her so bad she cant stay with him. I dont blame her, she says she just cant! So shes come back and she aint well, and shes goin to have a baby, and Ive got to stay and support her. Mr. Bradleys offered me a place in his store and Ive got to give up goin to the navy. He suddenly realized the unmanliness of his attitude, rose to his feet, closing his lips tightly, and faced the older man with a resolute expression of despair in his young eyes. and masculine, the humiliating second thought will quickly remind him thatin this respect he is no better off than any woman or cow in the land. In the German it is true that by some oversight of the inventor of thelanguage, a Woman is a female; but a Wife (Weib) is not -- which is </BODY> </HTML> |