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It may wear the guise of a lazy piety that would leave everything with God, accepting social ills as manifestations of his will, and interference as a sort of arrogant presumption! It may be a mere mental apathy, an inertia of habit, that sees no call for a better water supply or bothersome laws about the purity of milk.
We fell again into silence; her eyes grew more calm, and seemed to look forward in patient hope to the time when her happiness should come to her. I felt like a man suddenly robbed of the exaltation of wine and sunk to dull apathy. "I don't see how he can go," I said sullenly. She did not answer me. A moment later the door again opened. Rudolf came in, followed by Bernenstein.
Why is that clergymen alone should indulge themselves in such unrestrained liberty of abuse against each other?" and so you go on reviling us for our ungodly quarrels, our sectarian propensities, and scandalous differences. It will, however, give you no trouble to write another article next week in which we, or some of us, shall be twitted with an unseemly apathy in matters of our vocation.
For none of you shall live to rue it, save those who now smile grimly, conscious of their own desperate resolve, expectant of your apathy. "Nor is his villainy all told, even now; for so securely and so wisely has he laid his plans, that, had not the great Gods interfered and granted it to me to discover all, he must needs have succeeded!
"You hear," said Ambrose. "Is that all right?" "I got go Moultrie," the little man said stolidly. "You can't!" cried Ambrose. Alexander merely sat like an image. This was highly exasperating to the white man. "You've got to go home, I tell you," he cried. "I not go home," the native said with strange apathy. "Gaviller kill me now." "Nonsense!" cried Ambrose. "He has got to respect the law."
He saw double; his legs shook; his tongue clung to the roof of his mouth, and he could not utter a word. And yet, in the midst of his stupefaction and apathy, his heart was pierced by a cruel thorn the thought that he would pass under the windows of the good Fairy's house between the soldiers. He would rather have died.
There are some minds upon which great excitement produces the singular effect of uniting two utterly inconsistent faculties a sort of cold apathy, and a sharp sensitiveness to all that is going on at the same time.
She rose from her seat, and with a composure far greater than could have been augured from her demeanour during some parts of the trial, abode the conclusion of the awful scene. So nearly does the mental portion of our feelings resemble those which are corporeal, that the first severe blows which we receive bring with them a stunning apathy, which renders us indifferent to those that follow them.
And that is why, on the following market day, Herbert Trotter, journalist, erstwhile gentleman, and Secretary of the Dale Trials, found himself trying to swim in the public horse-trough. "What? What be sayin', mon?" cried old Jonas, startled out of his usual apathy. M'Adam turned sharply on the old man. "I said the wumman wears a muckle hat!" he snapped.
He who refuses even to open his eyes upon that bleeding Lamb of God, what must not he expect from the Lion of the tribe of Judah, in the day of judgment? He who by a life of apathy, and indifference to sin, puts himself out of all relations to the Divine pity, what must he experience in eternity, but the operations of stark, unmitigated law? Find out your sin, then.
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