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There was just the bare trace of brutality in Bobby as he said this, and he suddenly recognized it in himself with dismay.
To place nude male figures indiscriminately about the great Fair buildings, where they must be seen by modest maids, whether they will or no, and that while insolent strangers enjoy their confusion, is the very apotheosis of brutality. The idea that such an outrage upon divine modesty will "cultivate and refine" people sounds like one of Satan's satires.
Of these evils none pressed more cruelly on the honest citizens than the prevalence and brutality of street robberies. To the well-protected Englishman of to-day the London of 1750 would seem a nightmare of lawlessness.
The Rover faced his companion, and there was a ghastly smile on his speaking features, as he answered "He never repeated the offence! 'Twas his blood or mine; and dearly did he pay the forfeit of his brutality!" "You fought like men, and fortune favoured the injured party?" "We fought, sir. But I had dared to raise my hand against a native of the holy isle!
Sassin' the govermunt, she wuz nothin' more nor less. But she went on worse than ever. "You say that it wuz to give freedom to the people of Cuba. Look at the millions of your own wimmen enslaved in legal fetters! You say it wuz to protect the wimmen and children of Cuba from the cruelty and brutality of unscrupulous rulers.
Thornburgh was well aware of it. Should William be informed? Mrs. Thornburgh had a rooted belief in the brutality of husbands in all domestic crises, and would have preferred not to inform him. But she had also a dismal certainty that the secret would burn a hole in her till it was confessed bill and all. Besides frightful thought! would they have to eat up all those meringues next day?
But he was so conscious of how vital to himself was the necessity for being a successful, even a 'strong, husband, that he never spoke of a distaste born perhaps by the perverse processes of Nature out of a secret fund of brutality in himself. But Irene's silence this evening was exceptional. He had never before seen such an expression on her face.
Even at the last moment, when standing before the implement of death, he was made to feel the brutality of men in power. He looked complacently upon the vast multitude who came to see him die, and was about to say a few words, when the officer in charge, with ferocious emphasis, said, "No speeches! come, no speeches!" and ordered the drums to be beaten and the trumpets to be sounded.
Tyrrel consulted his old confident respecting the plan he should pursue; who, sympathising as he did in the brutality and insolence of his friend, had no idea that an insignificant girl, without either wealth or beauty, ought to be allowed for a moment to stand in the way of the gratifications of a man of Mr. Tyrrel's importance.
They replied, that they had no conveniences for sleeping, and that Osmore had acted like a villain, in depriving them unnecessarily of their hammocks, for which brutality, they were determined that he should not sleep more than they.
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