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Don't move, I tell you.... Wipe that blood off and go and set the silly girl's heart at rest.... And keep away from her afterward. Do you hear?" He set his teeth and shook him so wickedly that Dysart's head rolled and his wig fell off. "I know something of your sloppy record," he continued, still shaking him; "I know about your lap-dog fawning around Miss Seagrave.
I have seen also an eye glanced coldly over a most exquisite picture, rest, sparkling with pleasure, on a caricature rudely sketched; and whilst some terrific feature in nature has spread a sublime stillness through my soul, I have been desired to observe the pretty tricks of a lap-dog, that my perverse fate forced me to travel with.
There was something else I missed in these beautiful chambers the usual obtrusive, caressed and pampered pet animal of a great lady. No paroquet, no monkey, no little, silken-haired lap-dog, no St. Bernard or Newfoundland dog, no cat, not even a little canary bird, was to be met with; and not a single flower, real or artificial, greeted the eye.
"Ah, these females!... The devil always follows after petticoats like a lap-dog.... They are the ruination of our life." And the wrathful chastity of the cook continued hurling against womankind insults and curses equal to those of the first fathers of the church. One morning the men washing down the deck sent a cry passing from stem to stern, "The captain!"
I should have to nurse an arm or a leg at a time." "You could make room," said Susie. "She would be like the donkey that wanted to be a lap-dog, wouldn't she, mother?" said Tom. "It sat upon its master's lap." Every one laughed, except Susie. "Well, I'm not a donkey," she said, "and I'm not a lap-dog; and, besides, you want to yourself." "No, I don't," said Tom stoutly.
"How stupid it is!" he thought, rolling with laughter. "Have I gone out of my mind?" The laugh grew shriller and shriller, and became something like the bark of a lap-dog. Laevsky tried to get up from the table, but his legs would not obey him and his right hand was strangely, without his volition, dancing on the table, convulsively clutching and crumpling up the bits of paper.
The freedom-loving girl of to-day, who can enjoy a walk by herself without losing her reputation, who can ride down the street on her "bike" without being hooted at, who can play a mixed double at tennis without being compelled by public opinion to marry her partner, who can, in short, lead a human creature's life, and not that of a lap-dog led about at the end of a string, might pause to think what she owes to the "unsexed creatures" who fought her battle for her fifty years ago.
If I had been a yapping miniature lap-dog, with teeth only pour faire rire, I could not have been treated with greater disdain by the crowd. I glanced hastily round to see if Sir Samuel had not taken alarm; but, sitting beside his wife in the big crystal cage, he seemed blissfully unconscious of danger to his splendid Aigle.
It is an open question whether the policeman is not demoralising us; and that in proportion as he does his duty well; whether the perfection of justice and safety, the complete "preservation of body and goods," may not reduce the educated and comfortable classes into that lap-dog condition in which not conscience, but comfort, doth make cowards of us all.
When you thought that you were impressing us most by your smart sayings and doings, you were reminding us most of the fable about the donkey trying to play lap-dog. And it wasn't even an honest, straightforward donkey at that!" She uttered these last words sorrowfully, her hands clasped in her lap, and her eyes sinking to the floor. A silence ensued.
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