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Each time was like a tiny jab, till Penelope’s heart felt as full of pins as the lumpy red pincushion carried by Madame LePoint, the dressmaker at Ashton Place.

It’s an old Wall Street saying that a bull market doesn’t end “till the last bear turns bullish,” or at least until they capitulate.

"Don't wait till the last minute," he said.

“I know these men, and they’re not going to stop till they think they can get what they want,” said Shealy, who feels the state’s Republican Party has abandoned her over her stance.

But “count no mortal happy till / he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain,” as the chorus intones at the end of Sophocles’ tragedy.