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At the same moment my flesh and bones forbade me to enjoy them. My body had caught my mind like a rat in a trap! Day followed day, week, week, and year, year. It was a weary monotony of manual labor, poverty, restless travel, on foot, and hopeless attempts to recover my birthright the privileges of excess which had gone from me forever. Cities and their bright lights laughed at me.
Which looked ugly, said a few of the rasher spirits in the village, cherishing suspicion of their betters as the birthright which had never had a chance of being bartered for a mess of pottage; while the more contemptuous, critical after the event, gave it as their opinion that the major had a bee in his bonnet somewhere, for what gentleman in his seven sane senses would have looked for such a mare's nest as Miss Leam Dundas lying among the bulrushes of the Broad?
"So the squirrels' birthright is to want for naught, Have no grief or thought, know not 'must' or 'ought. Yet upon their gold there lingers Shades of care, that Great Râm's fingers For their blessing wrought." "Wah! Wah!" cried the Queen, delighted. "He can stop if he likes."
Equality before the law is necessary and just; liberty is the birthright of every man and woman; free individual development will elevate and glorify the race.
The decisions affecting matters of general interest come to by an assembly of men of distinction, but specialists in different walks of life, are not sensibly superior to the decisions that would be adopted by a gathering of imbeciles. The truth is, they can only bring to bear in common on the work in hand those mediocre qualities which are the birthright of every average individual.
Now, flanked by its dozen or more cottages, which were always filled with exclusive visitors from the "Quartier Francais," it enabled Madame Lebrun to maintain the easy and comfortable existence which appeared to be her birthright. Mrs. Pontellier talked about her father's Mississippi plantation and her girlhood home in the old Kentucky bluegrass country.
'Twas disagreeable to owe such a thing to a mere actress, and one, too, whose reputation was a trifle flyblown. The stage she might have swallowed being the lady's province and she a queen on the boards. But an entry to the world where she and her daughters had a birthright Fie! 'twas a very different pair of shoes.
Perpetual warfare is the pastime of the Moro; it is his sport, his vocation; and the Mother Jungle hurls a livelihood at his feet. Food, clothing, shelter are his birthright. Far up in the hills dwells this powerful clan, arrogant and superior in its power.
There are who by birthright are with us, but not of us not of us." This strange speech startled me into fuller self-command. I remembered his strange dislike to hear her mentioned. As he spoke his fingers opened and shut on the arms of the chair in which he sat, and here and there on his large-featured face the muscles twitched. "I will not hear her named again," he added.
It was not through disillusion or injustice, or wounded pride, that he walked aloof; but loneliness was his birthright, and from the hills and headlands to which solitude allured his steps he saw the dust of mad encounters rise to heaven, and the rent sails of foundering galleys.
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