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"And she left me waiting at home for half an hour. It's outrageous." Harry strode across the floor just as the music ceased, and Baskinelli arose, bowing to the applause of his feminine admirers. "May I ask the honor to show to you Madame Courtelyou's portrait of myself? It is called 'The Glorification of Imbecility," he said as he proffered his arm to Pauline.
In the sharp crack of the voluptuary's pistol, putting an end to his earthly misery, I hear the confirmation that in a hollow, fastidious life there is no peace. Again: Excessive devotion to fashion is productive of physical disease, mental imbecility, and spiritual withering.
Nor was it till her child was near a year old that Hitty discovered her husband's old and rewakened propensity, that Abner Dimock came home drunk, not drunk as many men are, foolish and helpless, mere beasts of the field, who know nothing and care for nothing but the filling of their insatiable appetite; this man's nature was too hard, too iron in its moulding, to give way to temporary imbecility; liquor made him savage, fierce, brutal, excited his fiendish temper to its height, nerved his muscular system, inflamed his brain, and gave him the aspect of a devil; and in such guise he entered his wife's peaceful Eden, where she brooded and cooed over her child's slumbers, with one gripe of his hard hand lifted her from her chair, kicked the cradle before him, and, with an awful though muttered oath, thrust mother and child into the entry, locked the door upon them, and fell upon the bed to sleep away his carouse.
I strove to speak, however; the eyes of the judge met mine, and they looked the language of encouragement of pity. But this expression only increased my confusion. I stammered out nothing but broken syllables and incoherent sentences. What I was saying, I know not how long I presented this melancholy spectacle of imbecility to the eyes of my audience, I know not.
Round about the piano they were still busy with their little game, for they were suffering from a fit of stupid imbecility, which caused each man to jostle his fellow in his frantic desire to empty his bottle into the instrument. It was a simple process and a charming one. "Now then, old boy, drink a glass! Devil take it, he's a thirsty piano! Hi! 'Tenshun! Here's another bottle!
It is difficult to conceive that any man, in such a state of voluntarily-induced imbecility, too drunk to hold intelligent converse with men, can be competent to transact business with God, to receive and answer those calls from the Holy Spirit that decide the eternal destinies of the soul."
It is to be hoped that by expressing a national disapprobation of this trade, we may destroy it, and save ourselves from reproaches, and our posterity the imbecility ever attendant on a country filled with slaves.
There were already great numbers of actively intelligent men and much private and commercial civilisation, but the community, as a whole, was aimless, untrained and unorganised to the pitch of imbecility. Collective civilisation, the 'Modern State, was still in the womb of the future.... Section 6
Why persistent happiness here, and yonder, though merits be equal, nought but unceasing disaster? Why is this house for ever beset with the storm, while over that other there shines the peace of unvarying stars? Why genius, and riches, and health on this side, and yonder disease, imbecility, poverty?
Some imbecility, such as: 'Watching the human form divine in motion, 'Catching sidelights on Nell for the statuette' some cant; it did not matter! The wine was drawn, and he must drink! It was still early when he left the restaurant a dry night, very calm, not cold. When had he danced last? With Olive Cramier, before he knew he loved her.
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