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In fact, no one wanted to live in such a place as a city when he could live on a farm.

Debacle — фиаско

“I am accustomed to crushing out my opponents. I had to, or they would crush me.”

“I only wish I could find another savage for you to play with, but there are no more." “Are you sure?" “As much so as I can be. In fact, for the last five years my agents have been scouring the civilized world for a pedestrian colony. There are a few in Siberia and the Tartar Plateau, but they are impossible. I would rather have you associate with apes.”

Writhe — корчиться

Maimed — искалеченный

Cripple — калека.

Internecine — междоусобный

“You have your own personality," he would say to her. "The mere fact that you are different from other people does not of necessity mean that they are right and you are wrong. Perhaps you are both right—at least you are both following out your natural proclivities.”

Heisler was a good father. He held to his vow to devote one hour a day to his daughter, and during that time gave of his intelligence as eagerly and earnestly as he did to his business in the other hours. Often he talked to Margaretta as though she were his equal, an adult with full mental development.

Confound

• cause surprise or confusion in (someone), especially by not according with their expectations.

• mix up (something) with something else.

“But she is happy!" "Yes, if laughter is an index. But will she be as she grows older? She will be different. How can she have associates? Of course they won't apply that extermination law in her case; my position will prevent that. I could even have it repealed. Butshe will be lonely—so lonely!”

She is your daughter. Her will is your will. The probability is that neither can change the other.

The automobilists had ceased to work, using the term in its purely archaic form, and having ceased to work, they had ceased to sweat. A few hours a day on a chair in a factory or at a desk was sufficient to earn the necessaries of life. The automobilist never being tired, nature demanded a lesser number of hours spent in sleep. The remaining hours were spent in automobiles, going somewhere: it mattered not where they went so long as they went fast.

It was not revenge they desired, but liberty—the right to live as they wished, to go and come as they pleased.

Fugitive — беглец

Throng = crowd

A race that ceases to develop must die out.

Acme — the point at which something is at its best or most highly developed.