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It was all very well in old-fashioned times, when fathers and mothers had some authority and were treated with respect, to be tutored and made to obey, but she is far too fast and flourishing to be stopped in mid-career by these slow old morals; and as she dresses to please herself, she does not care if she displeases every one else.
What most displeases me is, that the French gentlemen have only so far improved their taste as to be able to endure good things; but as for any perception that their music is bad Heaven help them! and the singing oimè!" Again he writes
"Of course, if you wish," said Stuart, looking down at her as she walked by his side and wondering what he would do when he had to stand up in Court, look at Miska in the felon's dock and speak words which would help to condemn her perhaps to death, at least to penal servitude! He shuddered. "Have I said something that displeases you?" she asked, resting a white-gloved hand on his arm.
"Why not, if you please, monsieur?" "Because the chief huntsman of France must hold receptions must keep valets and equipages. Let him have a palace for his dogs, if he likes, but not a dog-kennel for himself." "It is true, but " "But I am the doctor of the mind as of the body; it is not your residence here that displeases you." "What then?" "That of madame; therefore send her away."
Observe carefully, then, what displeases or pleases you in others, and be persuaded, that in general; the same things will please or displease them in you. Having mentioned laughing, I must particularly warn you against it: and I could heartily wish, that you may often be seen to smile, but never heard to laugh while you live.
To these is added, thirdly, that while desire seeks for that which is to come, taste possesses in the present that which it judges. That which pleases or displeases is always the form, never the matter; and further, is always a relation, for that which is entirely simple is indifferent.
The Irishman raised his brows. "Truth, eh?" "Yes. It is only possible to live when we know life truly, see it and value it truly." "There may be perverted truth." "You say that because this truth we speak of displeases you; yet this is no more a perversion of the truth than" he glanced round the walls "than that, for example; yet you would approve of that."
"You have the air of wanting something," she remarked. "Is there anything that displeases you?" "Displeases me! If you knew how strange that sounded!" he exclaimed. "I do not think that any one ever lived with such luxury, or was treated with so much kindness, as I during the last few days. You make every second perfect." Madame Christophor sighed.
"Doubtless," urged Passepartout, "we can pass, but perhaps it would be more prudent " "What! Prudent!" cried Colonel Proctor, whom this word seemed to excite prodigiously. "At full speed, don't you see, at full speed!" "I know I see," repeated Passepartout; "but it would be, if not more prudent, since that word displeases you, at least more natural " "Who! What!
Which does him a world o' good, sir, and noways displeases Miss Priscilla, because why? because she don't know nothing whatever about it."
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