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And I may add that in this opinion Mr. Whistler himself entirely concurs." Whistler retorted in "The World" and Oscar replied, but Whistler had the best of the argument. . . . . "Oscar the amiable, irresponsible, esurient Oscar with no more sense of a picture than of the fit of a coat, has the courage of the opinions . . . . of others!"
Tolpatches fire on the walking straw sentry; straw sentry falls flat; Tolpatches rush in, esurient, triumphant; are exploded in a sharp blast of musketry from the bushes all round, every wounded man made prisoner; and come no more back to that post."
There might, for example, be a lowest stage which would include as the English knighthood once included almost every citizen capable of initiative, all the university graduates, all the men qualified to practice the responsible professions, all qualified teachers, all the men in the Army and Navy promoted to a certain rank, all seamen qualified to navigate a vessel, all the ministers recognized by properly organized religious bodies, all public officials exercising command; quasi-public organizations might nominate a certain proportion of their staffs, and organized trade-unions with any claim to skill, a certain proportion of their men, their "decent" men, and every artist or writer who could submit a passable diploma work; it would be, in fact, a mark set upon every man or woman who was qualified to do something or who had done something, as distinguished from the man who had done nothing in the world, the mere common unenterprising esurient man.
"True!" said Mauleverer; "a religious rogue would have had some bowels for the state of the church esurient." "Is it really true, Mauleverer," asked the Earl of , "that Brandon is to succeed?" "So I hear," said Mauleverer. "Heavens, how hungry I am!" A groan from the bishop echoed the complaint. "I suppose it would be against all decorum to sit down to dinner without him?" said Lord .
This is to expect a gentleman to give a treat without partaking of it; to sit esurient at his own table, and commend the flavour of his venison upon the absurd strength of his never touching it himself. On the contrary, we love to see a wag taste his own joke to his party; to watch a quirk, or a merry conceit, flickering upon the lips some seconds before the tongue is delivered of it.
Mark them well Danton and Robespierre: today, merely "esurient advocates," petty men of law come up from the provinces to win their fortunes in Paris; tomorrow, leaders of faction; some months or years later, the rulers of France! Danton "the huge, brawny figure, through whose black brows and rude flattened face there looks a waste energy as of Hercules not yet furibund."
And I may add that in this opinion Mr. Whistler himself entirely concurs." Whistler retorted in The World and Oscar replied, but Whistler had the best of the argument.... "Oscar the amiable, irresponsible, esurient Oscar with no more sense of a picture than of the fit of a coat, has the courage of the opinions ... of others!"
"True!" said Mauleverer; "a religious rogue would have had some bowels for the state of the church esurient." "Is it really true, Mauleverer," asked the Earl of , "that Brandon is to succeed?" "So I hear," said Mauleverer. "Heavens, how hungry I am!" A groan from the bishop echoed the complaint. "I suppose it would be against all decorum to sit down to dinner without him?" said Lord .
He will be living on a great flat earth unless some officious person has tried to muddle his wits by telling him the earth is round; amidst trees, animals, men, houses, engines, utensils, that are all capable of being good or naughty, all fond of nice things and hostile to nasty ones, all thumpable and perishable, and all conceivably esurient. And the child should know of Fairy Land.
He drew tears from them with the pathos of his picture of the bereaved widow Mabey and her three starving, destitute children "orphaned to avenge the death of a pheasant" and the bereaved mother of that M. de Vilmorin, a student of Rennes, known here to many of them, who had met his death in a noble endeavour to champion the cause of an esurient member of their afflicted order.
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