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One afternoon, her sister, the milliner, came to see me according to her promise, and though she, too, said nothing, I saw that, while the old colonel and the old clergyman were disputing on the hearthrug about some disappearance which occurred thousands of years ago, she was looking fixedly at the fingers with which, in my nervousness, I was ruckling up the discoloured chintz of my chair.
Bent as I was on disputing the degrading conclusions at which he had arrived, I really had not fire enough in me, at the moment, to feed my own indignation.
What tedious training, day after day, year after year, never ending, to form the common sense; what continual reproduction of annoyances, inconveniences, dilemmas; what rejoicing over us of little men, what disputing of prices, what reckoning of interest and all to form the hand of the mind! The exercise of will or the lesson of power is taught in every event. Nature is thoroughly mediate.
Then rose up certain men of the synagogue of the freed-men, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen. And they could not resist the wisdom and the spirit with which he spoke. Then they suborned men to say, We heard him speak blasphemous things against Moses, and against God.
It is a very difficult thing to say what humour is, and probably it is a thing that is not worth trying to define. It resides in the incongruity of speech and behaviour with the surrounding circumstances. I remember once seeing two tramps disputing by the roadside, with the gravity which is given to human beings by being slightly overcome with drink.
You will recollect, that I have not attempted to affect the authority of the Old Testament which you acknowledge to contain a Divine revelation. I never shall because, I would never quarrel with any thing merely for the sake of disputing.
Then she did take advantage of it, and argue, and dispute, but now 'She has her own way without disputing, said Lady Merton. 'O Mamma, do you think so? said Anne, as if she thought it a terrible accusation. 'Yes, I really think that she has, but then her way is generally right. 'Yes, said Lady Merton, 'she is in some respects more fit to govern herself than most girls of sixteen.
She knows I shall win," says the stout young man; and, whilst disputing with him at every step, Tita disappears. "What a girl! No style, no manners," says Lady Rylton; "and yet I must receive her as a daughter. Fancy living with that girl! A silly child, with her hair always untidy, and a laugh that one can hear a mile off. Yet it must be done."
There were the dancers, all gaiety and good-humour; a little further off were the tables at which sat the card-players, some plying their vocation with deep and silent anxiety for in those days gaming often ran very high in such places and others disputing with all the vociferous pertinacity of undisguised ill-temper.
We have only our policy of peace and renunciation to thank for the fact that we are placed in this difficult position, and are confronted by the momentous choice between resigning all claim to world power or disputing this claim against numerically superior enemies.
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