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Magnificent!" cried Percival, with the automatic and ready hypocrisy of a sympathetic nature. "That certainly is great." "Notice the size of it?" queried Higbee, when they had flitted by. "Did I!" exclaimed the young man, reproachfully. "We went by pretty fast you couldn't see it well. I tell you the way they're allowed to run trains so fast right here in this crowded city is an outrage.
It is as if for him the veil were lifted, and he alone saw, like omniscience, into the bosoms of all. Suspicion, arising from his own contact with evil, though he escaped, has imparted the look of hypocrisy to all life; this is his bedevilment.
That he was not altogether free from literary hypocrisy, and that he sometimes spoke one thing and wrote another, cannot be denied, because he himself confessed that, when he lived with great familiarity with Dennis, he wrote an epigram against him. Mr. Savage, however, set all the malice of all the pigmy writers at defiance, and thought the friendship of Mr.
Soon Agnes began to draw a terrible comparison between these two men between the husband who had all she had of heart, and the friend whom she now acknowledged to herself for hypocrisy had fallen away from her had lived only for her, and for the hours they were able to spend together, during two long years, and yet who had never told her of his love, or tried to disturb her trust in Frank.
There was no room, in her case, for the ordinary doubts, censures, and sneers about the misapplication of bounty. Her taste did not lie in the "Charity Ball" direction; her funds were not lavished in encouraging hypocrisy and improvidence among the idle and worthless; and the quality of her charity was, in fact, as admirable as its quantity.
It's the age we live in. One of my friends, a most worthy man, and, I assure you, a man of no mean position, used to say, that nowadays the very hens can't pick up a grain of corn without hypocrisy they always approach it from one side. But when I look at you, dear lady your character is so truly angelic; let me kiss your little snow-white hand!"
'He said, papa, that honestly active men in a country, who decline to practise hypocrisy, show that the blood runs, and are a sign of health. 'You misunderstood him, my dear. 'I think I thoroughly understood him. He did not call them wise. He said they might be dangerous if they were not met in debate.
As to the charge of hypocrisy this too has been taught or forced upon the Indians by the conduct of the whites. Missionaries have been constantly going among them, teaching dogmas and doctrines, far beyond the comprehension of some learned white-men, and to the savage totally unintelligible.
Burbank'll do himself up through that I'd have to be in a saloon to feel free to use the language that describes him." "I fear he will," I said. And it was not a hypocrisy for I did not, and could not, feel anger toward him. Had I not cut this staff deliberately because it was crooked? What more natural than that it should give way under me as soon as I leaned upon it?
But he was now a timid old man, and perhaps did not care to prolong his reign by massacre of his people. He preferred dethronement and exile rather than see his capital deluged in blood. Nor did he know whom to trust. Treachery and treason finished what selfishness and hypocrisy had begun. Still, it is wonderful that he preserved his power for eighteen years.
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