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"Ah, my friend, how this sacrament displeases me," he said; "I know not why it is, but my heart tells me that some misfortune is to befall me. By God I shall die in this city, I shall never go out of it; I see very well that they are finding their last resource in my death. Ah, accursed coronation! thou wilt be the, cause of my death."
"I don't find fault with you," said he, "for writing to your friends, although in disgrace, for I know you will write nothing improper; but what displeases me is, that you should fail in the respect you owe to a duke and peer, in that, because he is exiled, you should omit to address him as Monseigneur;" and then tearing the letter in two, he added, "Write it again after the hunt, and put, Monseigneur, as you ought."
I'll say no more about her, since I see it displeases you; but I am thankful to God that you see the error of your ways." She sat silent, thinking for a little while, and then sent for her writing-case, and began to write. Her son became restless, and nervously irritated. "Mother," he said, "this affair worries me to death. I cannot shake off the thoughts of it."
"Well, I won't if it displeases you. But I was downright mad with him." "You said yes to his question. What then, Mary?" "Oh, then he wanted to know who he was." "Did you tell him?" "No." "Why? And what did you answer?" "I wasn't going to gratify him; and I said that I didn't know." "Well?" "'Was he a stranger? said he. 'I didn't see him, said I. 'You let him in? said he.
"Perhaps a month. Solitude, reflection, a proper regimen, my attentive care, may do much. You will be allowed everything that is compatible with your situation. Every attention will be paid you. If this room displeases you, I will see you have another." "No this or another it is of little consequence," answered Adrienne, with an air of the deepest dejection. "Come, come! be of good courage.
On 28 March 1519 Luther addressed himself personally to Erasmus for the first time. 'I speak with you so often, and you with me, Erasmus, our ornament and our hope; and we do not know each other as yet. He rejoices to find that Erasmus displeases many, for this he regards as a sign that God has blessed him.
"And sprinkled all through with doubtful jests, which of course pleased the people. One despicable one about the Entry into Jerusalem, which I believe he must have got from Strauss. I'm sure Strauss quotes it." "You see what displeases an educated mind, wins a rough, uncultured one. We may not altogether like it, but we must put up with it.
Who can promise that their temper will be the same hereafter, if the war is suspended? when, if you suffer any relaxation, more respectable and more frequent embassies will go; when that which now displeases the Etrurians, the establishment of a king at Veii, may, after an interval, be done away with, either by the joint determination of the state that they may recover the good will of the Etrurians, or by a voluntary act of the king, who may be unwilling that his reign should stand in the way of the welfare of his countrymen.
But when seated on the thwart she again turned to him, and asked: "Does it need a long time to bring your ship, with brave men on board, to this place?" "We can be here in four hours, and with favourable winds still sooner," was the reply. "Even if it displeases your father?" "Even then, and though the gods, many as there are, should forbid if only your gratitude will be gained."
Favours involve obligations; and whatever influence, talent, or means of any kind we possess, ought to be conscientiously appropriated to the great Bestower. Every being in the universe has duties arising out of his condition by doing which he glorifies, and by omitting which he displeases, his Creator.
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