, Job 16:5-6

1. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
2. Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.

The Emperor, who was by then a focus of unresolvable perplexities, stood providing a strongly contrary appearance.

But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.