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"The fault's his own; he tried to ride over everybody here, and upset everything; and the government will just say to him, 'Hush up." "The government never says anything else; it can't, poor government!" said Fourchon, seized with a sudden tenderness for the government.
"And you think then that with envy, malice, and all uncharitableness at your heart, you are certain of Heaven? For shame! Pluck the mote from your own eye!" "What sinnifies praching? Did not the Blessed Saviour come for the poor? Them as has rags and dry bread here will be ixalted in the nixt world; an' if we poor folk have malice as ye calls it, whose fault's that? What do ye tache us?
Get ye away to them, sir, and if they be not content with this order, tell them the fault's none of mine; for if the devil come, you must not disturb my sleep."
"The fault is not in my ideas," thought he; "THEY'RE all right. The fault's in me damned snob that I am!" Clearly, if he was to be what he wished, if he was to become what he had thought he was, he must get away from this sinister influence, from this temptation that had made him, at first onset, not merely stumble, but fall flat and begin to grovel.
"I can't do it, old man; or I would, I presume, if I'd been made that way." "Then I'd have remembered it to the last day I lived and never forgiven you," said Harvey, his chin on his doubled fists. "Exactly. That's about what I'd do. You see?" "I see. The fault's with me and no one else. All the same, something's got to be done about it."
"I'm afraid our young friend" he indicated Crestwick "is not a diplomatist, but on the whole his fault's a good one; he's more or less honest. You'll forgive us for surprising you; it was quite impossible to send you a warning."
I merely speak of certain facts, and if the allusion's an injury to you the fault's not mine. It's surely a fact that you have kept all this matter quite in your own hands." "Are you going back to Lord Warburton?" Isabel asked. "I'm very tired of his name." "You shall hear it again before we've done with it."
"''Twas that way I thought, mesilf, at first, Halloran says, with a big sigh, 'until I got to be a lettuce-eater. The fault's wid these tropics. They rejuices a man's system. 'Tis a land, as the poet says, "Where it always seems to be after dinner." I does me work and smokes me pipe and sleeps. There's little else in life, anyway. Ye'll get that way yersilf, mighty soon.
And it is a thousand pities." "So you think all the fault's on Lady Henry's side?" The Minister gave a shrug. "At any rate, I have never myself seen anything to justify Lady Henry's state of feeling. On the famous Wednesdays, Mademoiselle Julie always appears to make Lady Henry her first thought. And in other ways she has really worn herself to death for the old lady.
Luria withdraws from life, but not until he has made every provision for the victory of Florence over her enemy; nor does he die a defeated man; his moral greatness has subdued all envies and all distrusts; at the close everyone is true to him: The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow.
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