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Your mother admires him for his much walking; but I insist that he is possessed and driven about by a demon. . . . By the bye, just keep that "article" for me; I have no other copy. Bryant commended it, and said he thought the argument against the Incomprehensible's being totally unintelligible, was new. To his Daughter, Mrs. ST. DAVID'S, July 22, 1868.
After dinner, when examining my revolver, map, etc., the Khan greatly admires a photograph of myself as a peculiar proof of Ferenghi skill in producing a person's physiognomy, and blandly asks me to "make him one of himself," doubtless thinking that a person capable of riding on a wheel is likewise possessed of miraculous all 'round abilities.
"Can't you realize that a man like Royal, embarrassed for money no matter if he truly admires you, and truly means to make you happy can't think of you without thinking also of what your generous checks are going to mean to him? Write him a check for eleven thousand, Nina, as a consolation for delaying the marriage a year. Try it!" Nina rose to her feet.
Let us then re-conduct bewildered mortals to the altar of nature; let us endeavour to destroy that delusion which the ignorance of man, aided by a disordered imagination, has induced him to elevate to her throne; let us strive to dissipate that heavy mist which obscures to him the paths of truth; let us seek to banish from his mind those visionary ideas which prevent him from giving activity to his experience; let us teach him if possible not to seek out of nature herself, the causes of the phenomena he admires to rest satisfied that she contains remedies for all his evils that she has manifold benefits in store for those, who, rallying their industry, are willingly patiently to investigate her laws that she rarely withholds her secrets from the researches of those who diligently labour to unravel them.
'You don't know, then, the reason I have to call him impertinent; he has had the presumption to admire my niece! 'If every man deserves the title of impertinent, who admires ma'amselle St. Aubert, replied Cavigni, 'I fear there are a great many impertinents, and I am willing to acknowledge myself one of the number.
I bet she broke her word to half a dozen men, before she gave it to Fulton and kept it." "I wouldn't call him exactly an outsider," I said; "anyway she's made an insider of him. Everybody likes him, and admires him. I never thought much of him at school, but I think he's a peach now. And he understands everything you say to him."
'Well, if you use such shocking expressions, I'm sure no real gentleman will ever venture to come near you. Really, Miss Grey, you should not let her do so. 'I can't possibly prevent it, Miss Murray. 'And you're quite mistaken, Matilda, in supposing that Harry Meltham admires you: I assure you he does nothing of the kind.
And so we crossed field after field on our gentle steeds and no one admires gentleness in a horse more than I stopping only to watch another tragedy of the air, or to look across the river to Delhi and see the Fort under new conditions.
And yet, if you should exclude me, there's no man but would be so far from enduring another that he would stink in his own nostrils, be nauseated with his own actions, and himself become odious to himself; forasmuch as Nature, in too many things rather a stepdame than a parent to us, has imprinted that evil in men, especially such as have least judgment, that everyone repents him of his own condition and admires that of others.
Under a steady fire of compliments and questions and artful glances I saw that he began to grow uneasy. "That was a beautiful portrait you painted!" exclaimed Miss Paddington, looking sentimental. "Thank you," said he; "my cousin also admires it, but I must own that it does not quite suit me." "Perhaps you are an admirer of the lady it represents," said she, peering shyly into his eyes.
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