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Dick had never seen him before in such a state. 'The position is growing confoundedly awkward, he said drily. Then Alec burst out. 'They lick my boots till I loathe them, and then they turn against me like a pack of curs. Oh, I despise them, these silly boys who stay at home wallowing in their ease, while men work work and conquer. Thank God, I've done with them now.
To a taste intuitively fine and noble the essential vulgarities the fierceness to-day, the cringing to-morrow; the veneration for power; the indifference to virtue, which characterised the framers and rulers of "society" could not but bring contempt as well as anger; and amidst the brilliant circles, to which so many aspirers looked up with hopeless ambition, Constance moved only to ridicule, to loathe, to despise.
"I know I'm not. I've been in Harmouth. Lucy, there are moments when I loathe my fellow-creatures." "Poor things. Whatever have they been doing now?" "Oh, I don't know. The same old thing. They make my life a burden to me?" "But how?" "They're always bothering me, always trying to get at you through me. They're always asking me to tea to meet people in the hope that I'll ask them back to meet you.
Why, if I were an angel of light, and as innocent before you as a babe, you would still loathe me if you believed that SHE loved me, instead of loving yourself. That's jealousy that is the real jealousy. "But do you know what I have been thinking out during this last week, Parfen? I'll tell you. What if she loves you now better than anyone?
You talk as if I were a blessed brat. One must do something to amuse oneself. I'm fed-up sick to death of this infernal life. It's just a question of killing time from hour to hour. I loathe getting up in the morning, I hate going to bed at night, I'm sick to death of the club and the fools you meet there. I wish to God I could end it once and for all." "Humph!
"Father is rather trying," she said. "I wish George would marry." Cecil Tharp raised his bullet head; his blunt, honest face was extremely red from stooping. "Clean as a whistle," he said; "she's all right, Bee. I expect George has too good a time." Bee turned her face away and murmured: "I should loathe living in London." And she, too, stooped and felt the mare's shin. To Mrs.
'One sees that you have been breathed upon by democracy. 'I loathe the word and the thing even more than I did, which is saying a good deal. 'Be it so. You say you are going to work? 'Yes, I have come back to work. Even now, it's difficult to realise that I must work or starve. I understand how fellows who have unexpectedly lost their income go through life sponging on relatives and friends.
And Mother and Father, on the Prussian side, were driven to despair and pretty nearly to delirium by it; and our poor young Fritz got tormented, scourged, and throttled in body and in soul by it, till he grew to loathe the light of the sun, and in fact looked soon to have quitted said light at one stage of the business.
But yet, though Seneca had every reason to loathe her character and to detest her memory, though he could not have rendered to his patrons a more welcome service than by blackening her reputation, he never so much as mentions her name. And this honourable silence gives us a favourable insight into his character.
And if a common man, by any chance, caught a glimpse of royalty changing its shirt, he felt as if he had looked into heaven and beheld Divinity creating worlds. Oh, it is enough to make a man loathe his species." "Come, come," said Maximilian, "you grow bitter.
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