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Now the social order more exactly, the social organism in which Spirit is really to triumph, can only be built up of individuals who do with a greater or less perfection and intensity exhibit these characters, some upon independent levels of creative freedom, some on those of discipleship: for here all men are not equal, and it is humbug to pretend that they are.
One medium to whom I have already alluded, after a sojourn of several years in California whither he went from Boston, seeking whom he might humbug has now returned to the East, and is operating in this city. Besides answering sealed letters, he furnishes written "communications" to parties visiting him at his rooms a "sitting," however, being granted to but one person at a time.
We have plenty of time. We'll rest here till you are better." There was nothing for it but to obey. He dismounted, feeling himself a humbug and a scoundrel. He sat down on a mossy rock, his back against another, while she trailed the reins and joined him. "You are better now, aren't you?" she asked, as she seated herself on an adjacent bowlder. Gruffly he answered: "I'm all right."
At least you ought to hold your own anywhere, in any society, the very best." "And yet I'm not 'your sort. Am I a humbug, an impostor, an adventuress, a puppet and play-actress? Or is it that I have forfeited my right, my rank of gentlewoman, my position in the world, your world?" I was silent, moodily, obstinately silent. She had hit the blot, and could put but one interpretation upon it.
Richard groaned under it; he longed to leap forward and denounce the humbug. And the humbug himself? Do you fancy he was easier in his mind?
For the Lord's sake! You'll repent it bitterly by-and-by! Oh! It can't be our dear, kind Jim, as God sent to help and comfort us! We'd give you meat and drink, if we had them, but the last crumb's gone, and mother's never bitten to-day!" "Nonsense! Don't tell me! None of your humbug and cant with me! If I can't get supper where I ought, I'll get it where I can!
"Not a bad attempt for a dull mind at all," the girl said laughingly, "don't forget it, and I'll give you a chance to use it again, when there's more appreciation in the room than there is just now." "Come, come, you little humbug, take off that gigantic sacque, and sit down here; upun my word I won't make any more of those nasty jeu de mots."
There seemed to be "no humbug," as the saying goes, among these men; no pretence, and all was kindly good-fellowship, for those who were on the Lord's side showed it if need were, said it while those who were not, felt perhaps, that they were in a minority and kept quiet. "Come along, Joe, what cheer!" "Here you are, Bill how goes it, my hearty!" "All well, praise the Lord."
And didn't I grin when I saw the pieces fly? No humbug, now, about my boyhood! "His personal appearance was not singularly prepossessing. Inconspicuous in stature and unattractive in features" Haven't I been sleeping for this many a year in quiet, and don't the dandelions and buttercups look as yellow over me as over the best-looking neighbor I have in the dormitory?
You laugh with him when he derides the humbug in religion, the humbug in politics, the humbug in love, the humbug in the plausibilities of the world; but you may cry, my dear pupils, when he derides what is often the safest of all practically to deride, the humbug in common honesty!
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