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"Thus, Monsieur: a person came to Aix who was very kind to me, for I am the dressmaker of his daughters, having previously been a servant in his mother's country-house. The family has always been kind and attentive, because in Provence, the nobles do not despise the peasants. Ah! it is far otherwise some are lofty and others humble, but their hearts are all alike.
I think, Calvinist though he was, that word was his religion. Men have had worse. Perhaps the Doctor thought this; for he rose abruptly, and, leaning on the old man's chair, said, gently, "It is better, even here. Yet you poison this child's mind. You make her despise To-Day; make honor live for her now." "It does not," the schoolmaster said, bitterly. "The world's a failure.
"But I must throw somebody, or else I shall not be qualified. The women of that wonderful country of yours would look down on me." "Throw me!" The Prince opened his arms, smiling. "I will let you!" he said. "And despise me afterwards! No, Mr. Schnapp-dragon, I shall choose my own man, and throw him in my own way." "And if you succeed?" "Then yes, then I will marry you." "And if you fail?"
May it be found in the hearts of my people, the despised! and who shall then despise them again? The past is all guilt and groans. Into the future open a better way " "Toussaint L'Ouverture!" he heard again from afar, and bowed his head, overpowered with hope. "Toussaint L'Ouverture!" repeated some light gay voices close at hand.
My mother, I know, looks on it so. Why did she trust me to be with you here, but that she thinks me engaged to him, and has such faith in me? Oh, help me! be my guide. Think whether you would trust me hereafter! I should despise myself. Not if you marry him! said Evan, bitterly.
Joseph was to be King of Naples, if he accepted the honour quickly. If not, the Emperor would adopt a son, as in the case of Eugène, and make him King. "I don't need a wife to have an heir. It is by my pen that I get children." But Joseph must also show himself worthy of the honour. Let him despise fatigue, get wounded, break a leg. "Look at me.
Marian gained a first glimpse of the selfishness of refined exclusiveness, and doubted whether it had not been getting a hold of herself, when she had learnt of Selina to despise and neglect all that was unpleasing. O the joy of knowing that she should turn her back on the great wicked world again, and measure herself by the old standard of home!
"'At any cost, your ladyship? rejoined I, fixing my eyes steadily upon hers, for her despair rendered me bold, and I was not one to suffer an opportunity to slip by unimproved. "'I understand you, fellow! she replied, with a hysterical laugh and a glance of scorn, 'and much as I despise you, I answer yes! at any cost. But, gracious Heavens, what do I say? you, a menial, a base-born servitor!
"Where does the honesty come in? Of course I understand your position. In a way, it is identical with mine subservience to a principle that you despise, acquiescence in methods that you know to be utterly false and wrong! How sick I am of it all! It's the old experience, all over again, which I used to have as a child with the Tom Smith paper crackers.
But, since you have this theory of life, you may not despise any one or any thing, not even a skittle-alley, for they are all threaded to you, and to despise them would be to blaspheme against continuity, and to blaspheme against continuity would be to deny Eternity. Love you cannot help, and hate you cannot help; but contempt is for you the sovereign idiocy, the irreligious fancy!"
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