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It was inevitable that such thoughts should arise after the more palpably indefensible doctrines of Christianity had been discarded. Once encourage the human mind to think, and bounds to the thinking can never again be set by authority. Once challenge traditional beliefs, and the challenge will ring on every shield which is hanging in the intellectual arena.
Although the eldest of the group, he was still young, twenty-five, perhaps. He was tall, strong, alert, with a narrow, long face; dark, slow eyes, that had a serious, steadfast expression; dark brown hair, braided in the queue often discarded by the hunters of this day.
Such is the fatalism of the country-folk that if drugs and injections do not work like magic they are quietly discarded. Meanwhile my friendly offer caused so great a joy in the mother's heart that I became quite embarrassed. She likened me, among other things, to her favourite Saint. All comparisons being odious, I turned the conversation by asking: "And that last one?"
He soon discarded the wooden leg made for him by the doctor, because "it had no feeling in it." It must have had as much as the one he burnt off, I should think. So much for the Aboriginals. It is difficult for me to let them alone. They are marvelously interesting creatures.
But an instant's recollection recalled him to himself, and he discarded the idea as unworthy of his character. "Your services shall not be forgotten. Here is gold," he said, offering a handful of the metal to the negro, as the one nearest his own person. "You will divide it, like honest shipmates; and you may ever rely on my protection." Scipio drew back, and, with a motion of his elbow, replied,
The Briton should have done one thing or the other: discarded British methods and fought the Boer with Boer methods, or augmented his own force until using British methods it should be large enough to equalize results with the Boer. To retain the British method requires certain things, determinable by arithmetic.
Upon the whole, it is not religion or virtue, but the want of them, which is here exposed. Had not Thwackum too much neglected virtue, and Square, religion, in the composition of their several systems, and had not both utterly discarded all natural goodness of heart, they had never been represented as the objects of derision in this history; in which we will now proceed.
The smug satisfaction, the unctuous sweetness of the expansive blue eyes were gone; a murderous gleam shone there instead. His lips were set and rigid, the strong hand seemed to be strangling the bedclothes. It wanted no effort of imagination to picture Henson as the murderer stooping over his prey. The man had discarded his mask altogether.
Such instances, however, are rare; more often the man regarded his 'Njai' merely as a temporary helpmate, and if he saw a chance would marry some rich European girl, when the Indian wife would be set aside 'sent into the bush, as the phrase was. That such behaviour should have roused the wrath and hatred of the discarded wives and their relatives was but natural.
But he was grateful to her for not letting him see it too clearly. She answered him regularly once a fortnight. Affectionate, composed letters, like her gestures. When she told him of her life she never discarded her tender, proud reserve. She knew the violence with which her words went resounding through Christophe's heart.
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