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Then we proffered him all the delicacies of bachelors' quarters, and filled and refilled his bowl with soup, and did not stop pouring out our lye-black tea till he had drained the dregs of it. Having satisfied his inner-man, we gave him the best stump-tree seat in the cabin and sat back to listen.
Posthorses, "two hundred and eighty-seven at every station," he has from the Community; but the rest of his expenses, from Memel all the way to Wesel? But what a window into the artless inner-man of his Majesty, even that GRAY fib; not done by oneself, but ordered to be done by the servant, as if that were cheaper!
Under good guidance, especially if bred to strict silence, he might have been in some measure a luminous object, not as now a phosphorescent one, shining by its mere rottenness! A sad "Calamity of Authors" indeed, when it overtakes a man! Poor Gundling probably had lucid intervals now and then; tragic fits of discernment, in the inner-man of him.
But in the present glad hour of restored security his head no longer in danger of plopping, hideously bodiless, into la veuve's basket, his inner-man, moreover, so recently and rackingly evacuated by that abominable Channel passage, now comfortably relined with Tandy's meat and drink he went further in the way of acknowledgment.
Marchmont," said Blanche. "When you will sigh, fish of sea, fowl of air versus Rose Cottage," said Tedril. "Though following Sir Peter's lead from the depths to the heights, 'tis only to feed the inner-man, therefore as we grow prosaic we had best descend to the level of Rose Cottage," said Trevalyon.
"Swedenborg," resumed the pastor, "was particularly attached to the Baron de Seraphitz, whose name, according to an old Swedish custom, had taken from time immemorial the Latin termination of 'us. The baron was an ardent disciple of the Swedish prophet, who had opened the eyes of his Inner-Man and brought him to a life in conformity with the decrees from On-High.
Let us try to select, and extricate into coherence and visibility out of those Historical dust-heaps, a few of the symptomatic phenomena, or physiognomic procedures of Friedrich in his first weeks of Kingship, by way of contribution to some Portraiture of his then inner-man.
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