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'I just dash them off like that. I I dash them off, he added with a gesture. 'Quite so, said Dick, who was appalled by the feebleness of the production. 'Understand me, continued Van Tromp; 'I am a man of the world. And yet once an artist always an artist.
It is one, however, which the opium-eater will find, in the end, as oppressive and tormenting as any other, from the sense of incapacity and feebleness, from the direct embarrassments incident to the neglect or procrastination of each day's appropriate duties, and from the remorse which must often exasperate the stings of these evils to a reflective and conscientious mind.
De Marsan, the nominal head of the establishment, was a peaceful Pennsylvanian, who was wont to move as slowly as if he were one of those processions that take a certain number of hours to pass a given point. This Madam Delia understood and expected; he was an innocent who was to be fed, clothed, and directed; but his languor was no excuse for the manifest feebleness of the out-of-door man.
Then nothing is too much to give; no sacrifice of herself or others too great to grant or demand. The irritability and feebleness of convalescence makes claims upon her love of self-sacrifice, and her prodigality of tenderness as positive and yet more baneful.
I applied it to myself, knowing a feebleness like her father's will come to me also nay, it is not far off. But you, Esther, will never say of me no, never 'It were better he were dead. No, your mother was a daughter of Judah." With half-formed tears, she kissed him, and said, "I am my mother's child." "Yes, and my daughter my daughter, who is to me all the Temple was to Solomon."
The influence of Puritanism to inspire with unconquerable principle, to infuse public spirit, to purify the character from frivolity and feebleness, to lift the soul to an all-enduring heroism and to exalt it to a lofty standard of Christian excellence, is grandly illustrated by the life of Margaret Winthrop, one of the pioneer-matrons of the Massachusetts colony.
On the stairs of the hotel, while going up to his room, the strong smell of cooking onions came suddenly to his nostrils. It was delicious. Vandover breathed in the warm savour with long sighs, closing his eyes; a great feebleness overcame him. He asked himself how he could get through the next twelve hours. An hour later he went to bed, hiccoughing from the water he had been drinking all day.
'After you first came to me to get your precious grandson packed off to sea? said Quilp. 'Shortly after that, replied the old man. 'I thought of it a long time, and had it in my sleep for months. Then I began. I found no pleasure in it, I expected none. What has it ever brought me but anxious days and sleepless nights; but loss of health and peace of mind, and gain of feebleness and sorrow!
Brook Farm, however, was not conceived in any spirit of cruelty or of contempt of the weaker members of humanity; the very contrary was the case. Sin and feebleness were capable, thought its founders, of elimination by the force of natural virtue.
"I hear, Constance," the boy said to the elder, "there has been no news from our grandfather and uncles since we have been away." "No word whatever, Ned. Our mother does not say much, but I know she is greatly troubled and anxious about it." "That she may well be, Constance, seeing that neither quiet conduct nor feebleness nor aught else avail to protect any from the rage of the Spaniards.
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