In the beginning of the disturbance, he neglected to do his duty--to collect money, and seek for reimbursement." "And now," said Anton, sorrowfully, "no one will be inclined to pay or reimburse us." "And yet we must bring this about to-morrow, and you shall help me to do so.

By heaven, these warlike convulsions are in themselves inconvenient enough to trade without this addition, paralyzing as they do all useful activity, which is the only thing that prevents us from becoming mere animals.

But if a man of business allows himself to be more crushed than is absolutely unavoidable, he does an injury to civilization--an injury for which there is no compensation." They had now reached a part of the town where empty streets, and the silence of the grave immediately at hand, only enhanced the horrors of the distant clamor and the red glare in the sky.

At length they stopped before a low building with a large gateway.

Entering, they looked into the bar, a dirty room with blackened rafters, in which loud-voiced and brandy-drinking patriots clustered on bench and table.