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Contact with truth hurts and frightens you: you escape from it into an imaginary vacuum in which you can indulge your desires and hopes and loves and hates without any obstruction from the solid facts of life. You love to throw dust in your own eyes. THE ELDERLY GENTLEMAN. It is my turn now, madam, to inform you that I do not understand a single word you are saying.
The señorita has something better to do than bask in the glory of so gorgeous a señor while he indulges his vanity and frightens the poor cattle so that, if they yield their hides at killing time, there will be little tallow for the ships to carry away!"
We ourselves; with our coarse skin, in comparison with that of the maggot, can distinguish between sunshine and shadow without the help of the eyes. But, in the present case, the problem becomes singularly complicated. The subjects of my experiment receive only the diffused light of the sky, entering my study through an open window; yet this tempered light frightens them out of their senses.
It frightens me just to think of it it is," and the girl lowered her voice as though she feared to say the thing she dreaded most, "it is that you may have loved another that that you may even be married." Bulan was about to laugh away any such fears when the gravity and importance of the possibility impressed him quite as fully as it had Virginia.
Not content with this, he offered royal crowns to Bavaria and Wurtemberg, and the German emperor had to assent to this measure in the treaty of Presburg. "Oh, I implore you, do not read any further," exclaimed Anna, suddenly interrupting her husband. "It frightens me to hear you repeat those threatening and angry words; they fall upon my heart like a terrible accusation against you!
He is a little spare creature who flies his kite over steeples when there is anything to do to them, and lodging a cord on the apex, contrives by its means to reach the top without the trouble of scaffolding. No fragility, no displacement of stones, no leaning from the perpendicular, frightens Steeple Jack. He is as bold as his namesake Jack-the-Giant-Killer, and does as wonderful things.
"Very well, darling; but don't you want to dig any more?" "No," she said. "Yaya doesn't yike digging." Now was that fair? digging, indeed, when it was the poor aunt who had been digging all the time. When I told Diana of this she shook her head and said, "Betty, it frightens me. Do you think Sara will grow up that sort of woman?" "What sort of woman?"
She was still weeping, but more gently, like a wearied and powerless child. "The Church frightens you," he continued. "For a time I thought you had yielded your heart to God. But it has been willed otherwise. Heaven has its own purposes. Well, since you mistrust the priest, why should you refuse to confide in the friend?" "You are right," she faltered.
"Oh, Sarah!" cried he, "if the Nile were in thy bosom Thou wouldst weep it all away." "I will not weep any longer," said she; but a more abundant stream flowed from her eyes. "What is this?" asked the prince; "or hast Thou brought in some witch again who frightens thee with Phoenician women?"
"In my day, young men were not so shy of looking at a pretty woman. As for him, he drops his eyes whenever he sees you. That young man frightens me because I am really interested in him. Tell him not to intrigue with the Bonapartists, as he is now doing about that theatre.
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