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He understood perfectly, and expressed both his understanding and his gratitude by bending over and kissing the little hand that lay in his. When he had gone, Carmen sat a long time by the fire reflecting. It would be sweet to humiliate the Delancy and Schuyler Blunt set, as Henderson could. But what would she gain by that?
He was now entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He felt now that his surroundings explained him. Nobody questioned the purple; he had only to wear it passively. He had only to glance down at his attire to reassure himself that here it would be impossible for anyone to humiliate him.
"But I give you back this one unbroken, not even cracked," said I. "So that's different." "I don't choose to take it back," said he. "You'll humiliate me if you refuse to go to Edinburgh in my car with a competent chaperon, of course." "A chaperon! My gracious!" I couldn't help laughing. "Aren't you chaperon enough a great big, grown-up man?"
Even when she scolded me which she did, now and then, very tartly it was in such a way as did not humiliate, and left no sting; it was rather like an irascible mother rating her daughter, than a harsh mistress lecturing a dependant: lecture, indeed, she could not, though she could occasionally storm. Moreover, a vein of reason ever ran through her passion: she was logical even when fierce.
Protestation would only humiliate him. He turned slowly and walked into his own room, where he stood erect before his desk. "Miss Frazer," he said in a level, timbreless voice, "the labor leader Dulac lives in your house. You come of a family of labor agitators. Therefore you are discharged." "WHAT?" she exclaimed, the unexpectedness of it upsetting her poise.
Her two hands went behind her, swiftly. I may have made a motion to grip her by the wrists; I cannot tell. My next words surprised myself, and the tone of my voice speaking and the passion in it. "You have killed my friend," said I, "who desired only your good. You have chosen to humiliate me, who willed you no harm.
A man of your transcendent virtue would be a moral scourge in our corrupt society. He would, by contrast, humiliate his neighbors. In these degenerate days such a combination of gifts is antagonistic to nature. Do relieve our anxiety by accepting the title of comedian. Acknowledge yourself to be an actor, and our anxious fears are quieted. I would have my mind set at rest upon one more point.
Sejanus had dared to do what Tiberius had never succeeded in doing; he had destroyed that center of opposition which gathered about Agrippina in the house of Germanicus. It is therefore scarcely necessary to say that the ruin of Agrippina still further increased the power of Sejanus. All bowed trembling before the man who had dared humiliate the very family of the Julio-Claudii.
At the same terrible words which had smitten George, she also cried, "Papa, did you say you would rather bury me?" "Yes," said the veteran sternly, "and I would rather be buried myself. You must remember that I am at heart a soldier and not a trader. I could not survive dishonor to you or myself; and any relation except that of enmity to these Houghtons would humiliate me into the very mire.
He knew enough to be conscious of what this meant; but he felt at the same time disinclined to humiliate himself by a too facile compliance. A proud American, in the midst of a people he had learned to despise their idolatrous observances along with them no wonder he should feel a little defiant and a good deal exasperated.
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