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We remember Pepys, who well, never mind what he does. We call to mind Cellini; he runs behind a fellow-creature, and with 'admirable address' sticks a dagger in the nape of his neck, and long afterwards records the fact, almost with reverence, in his life's story. Can anything be more revolting than some portions of the revelation Benjamin Franklin was pleased to make of himself in writing?
But it was no use trying to still the voice which spoke loudly within them, which told them that they had acted with heartless cruelty, and that their conduct had, perhaps, cost a fellow-creature his life. "Will you wait with him whilst I run to L for papa?" said Fred. "What alone?" they cried. "Alone! why there are four of you, will be at least when Riches comes back."
"No human being is perfect, nor within a thousand miles of perfection. What right then have we to condemn any fellow-creature for his sins, when we break just as important laws in some other direction? It's common hypocrisy to say, 'We never could have done this terrible thing! and draw our mantle of self-righteousness closely about us lest it become contaminated. Perhaps we couldn't! Why?
I haint been made a scholard, like swell Tim, as was lagged for a forgery." "You go to church on a Sunday?" "Yes; I 'as a weekly hingagement at the New Road." "What do you mean?" "To see arter the gig of a gemman vot comes from 'Igate." Percival lifted his brilliant eyes, and they were moistened with a heavenly dew, on the dull face of his fellow-creature.
He found it still levelled steadily. To jump would be only to fall halfway, and yet his throat was beginning to ache with the strain. He felt within him some new-born instinct impelling him to her side. She stood somehow for something more than merely a fellow-creature in danger. He took a quicker interest in her an interest expressing itself now in a sense of infinite tenderness.
The first chance their clever stepmother had given them of asserting their importance against hers was now in their hands. Their jealous hatred of Lady Winwood assumed the mask of Duty duty toward an outraged and deceived fellow-creature. Could any earthly motive be purer than that?
They were these: RULES Every member is to be as good as possible. There is to be no more jaw than necessary about being good. No day must pass without our doing some kind action to a suffering fellow-creature. We are to meet every day, or as often as we like. We are to do good to people we don't like as often as we can. No one is to leave the Society without the consent of all the rest of us.
The "River-God," a good-hearted man, who in his daily life could never have let a fellow-creature drown under his very eyes, forgot his part, released Paula, and sprang after Katharina, as did Anubis and a few boatmen; but they could not reach her, and the boy, who found swimming difficult with his crippled leg followed the girl to whom his young heart was wholly devoted to a watery death.
One sits on court-martial, for instance, and decides on the life of a fellow-creature, without being asked any inconvenient questions as to previous knowledge of Blackstone; and after such an experience, shall one shrink from wrecking a steamer or two in the cause of the nation?
And so it came to pass that Matilda burst into the room just as the hairdresser was preparing to pronounce the inevitable words that would complete the goddess's power. He stood there, pale and dishevelled, with eyes that were wild and bordered with red. Opposite to him was the being she had once mistaken for a fellow-creature.
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