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If such men acknowledge God it is with the lips only, and if they acknowledge the divine things of the church, it is for fear of losing standing. This love hides hatred of the Lord deeply within it because deep in it is the desire to be God, for it worships and adores itself alone.
"Oh, mother, how wise you are and how blind I am! I realize now how Elise must have suffered and all for nothing. I just know Mr. Kinsella adores her. I see it all. He went off just because he thought Elise was serious about Philippe and he could not stay to see it.
"It's no laughing matter, I tell you, Jack," I said. "The boy is completely bewitched. He thinks he adores her. He doesn't. I know." And bit by bit, while his expression grew interested, I told him all that I had heard. "It's animal, purely animal," I concluded. "And he doesn't know it." "By George! He's awakening, you think?" "I'm sure of it. She's leading him on, for the mere sport of the thing.
Sophia Antonovna preserved a mysterious silence for a while, then made a statement. "He just simply adores her." "Does he? Well, then, I hope that she won't hesitate to beat him." Sophia Antonovna got up and wished me good-bye, as though she had not heard a word of my impious hope; but, in the very doorway, where I attended her, she turned round for an instant, and declared in a firm voice
Why will you still preserve this obstinate silence, which chills me, and whence proceeds the seriousness, or rather sorrow, that torments me to the soul? Do you mourn for your country, your friends or your relations? Alas! Is not the king of Persia, who loves and adores you, capable of comforting you, and making you amends for every loss?"
But I think she would be so bored where I am going to stay, for there are no other children there; and besides, she positively adores the sea. So I shall have to leave her to her father's tender mercies, poor dear." "I hope Effie will survive it, I am sure," said Geoffrey laughing. "I suppose that your husband is going to stay on at Mrs. Jones's," said the clergyman. "Really, I don't know.
"Was she educated abroad?" "Bless you! no: she is altogether American in training." "Isn't she rather peculiar?" ventured Maurice. "If by peculiar you mean the sweetest girl in the world, she is that," replied the old man enthusiastically. "Is she generally liked?" "Not by dandies and coxcombs: my little girl over there adores her. But let me introduce you." "Willingly," ejaculated the other.
Virtue goes rather too far when it prevents a girl giving the man who adores her a single kiss." "Indeed, I would not have believed that of her." "Nevertheless it is the fact, and I must make an end of it. Your sister cannot understand the danger she runs in treating a lover in this fashion. Tell her all that, my dear Menicuccio, but don't give her any advice of your own."
He sees approach with impatience, and at the same time with terror, the moment of his departure. With impatience for he suffers an absolute martyrdom, he longs to escape from it; with terror for to pass twenty days without seeing her, without speaking to her, without her in a word what will become of him? Her! It is Bettina; he adores her! Since when?
His work had been much admired in the ateliers, but his personal unpopularity with, the majority of the students had prevented their admiration changing to a friendship whose demands would have drained his small resources. "Ninety-nine per cent of the Quarter dislikes Stefan Byrd," an Englishman had said, "but one per cent adores him."
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