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It is not so much a matter of learning a craft for the sake of knowing one, as for the sake of conquering the prejudices which despise it. Labour for glory, if you have not to labour from necessity. Lower yourself to the condition of the artisan, so as to be above your own. In order to reign in opinion, begin by reigning over it.
But the thought kep a naggin' me stiddy, and then here is the curious part of it the thought nagged me, and I nagged Josiah, or not exactly nagged; not a clear nag; I despise them, and always did. But I kinder kep' it before his mind from day to day, and from hour to hour. And the idee would keep a tellin' me things and I would keep a tellin' 'em to my companion.
He was handsome, and he knew that he was handsome; but he affected to despise the beauty of his proud dark face, as he affected to despise all the brightest and most beautiful things upon earth: and yet there was a vagabondish kind of foppery in his costume that contrasted sharply with the gentlemanly dandyism of the shabby gamester sitting at the table.
"Are you not afire with shame, Captain Ireton?" she said, bitterly; and then: "How you must despise me!" I knew not what she meant; but being most anxious for her safety, I begged her not to talk, putting it all upon the risk we ran in passing the outlet of the sunken valley.
We could not understand. I said at all hazards "Be firm." The sound of my voice seemed to steady him into a sudden rigidity, but otherwise he took no notice. He seemed to listen, to expect something for a moment, then went on "He cannot come here therefore I sought you. You men with white faces who despise the invisible voices. He cannot abide your unbelief and your strength."
For a considerable period this poor woman had suffered a mental torture, the severest, perhaps, to which her sex can be subjected. She had seen the man she loved and, though she was only a drudge, and not by any means a tidy one, she could love very dearly she had seen, I say, the man she loved gradually learning to despise her affection, and to estrange himself from her society.
Is it comprehensible to you? She flies from one dungeon into another. These are the acts which astonish men at our conduct, and cause them to ridicule and, I dare say, despise us." "But, Miss Middleton, for Sir Willoughby to grant such a request, if it was made . . ." "It was made, and by me, and will be made again. I throw it all on my unworthiness, Miss Dale.
How will he despise what he can grasp, for the sake of the dim glory that eludes him! So talk we of graves and goblins. But, what have ghosts to do with graves? Mortal man, wearing the dust which shall require a sepulchre, might deem it more a home and resting-place than a spirit can, whose earthly clod has returned to earth. Thus philosophers have reasoned.
Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes?
She repaid their neglect with contempt, and the silent neutralist soon became regarded by them as the secret foe. But Constance was sufficiently the woman to feel mortified and wounded by that which she affected to despise. No post at court had been offered to her by her former friends; the confidant of George the Fourth had ceased to be the confidant of Lord Grey.
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