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But he is very pasty and tough and misshapen now, and hardly ever interests himself about anything. As to his present size well, he sleeps in a cigar-box." "Likely enough. There are few smaller, meaner men in this region than Hugh Thompson. Do you know Robinson's conscience?" "Yes. He is a shade under four and a half feet high; used to be a blond; is a brunette now, but still shapely and comely."
I should find it smaller and meaner; I should search about for the flowers and nests, and listen for the music that I knew sixty-five years ago, and remember; and they would not be discoverable. Also every face would stare at me, for all the faces I know are dead. To be sure, there would be my parents' headstones in the churchyard. But what are they, if the churchyard itself is changed?
My father had an original nobility of nature; and his life had not been such as to debase it, but rather such as to cherish and heighten that self-esteem which at least keeps the possessor of it from many meaner vices.
Is it not rightly said: 'Discretion is the handmaiden of Truth'? and in that spacious and well-appointed palace there is every kind of vessel, but the meaner are not to be seen in the more ceremonial halls. Thus he who tells a story prudently suits his furnishing to the condition of his hearers." "Wisdom directs your course," replied Shan Tien, "and propriety sits beneath your supple tongue.
That's what I paid my good money for 'em to do. "He had two daughters an' two sons. Them an' his poor wife had all the work in the house to do, 'cause he wouldn' waste no Nigger to help 'em out. His family was as scared o' him as we was. They lived all their lives under his whip. No Sir! No Sir! There warnt no meaner man in the world than old man Jim Rankin.
Our Laura had that rich brunette beauty before which the mere snow and roses of the blonde must always seem wan and unimpassioned. In the superb suffusions of her cheek there seemed to flow a tide of passions and powers that might have been tumultuous in a meaner woman, but over which, in her, the clear and brilliant eyes and the sweet, proud mouth presided in unbroken calm.
What he allows me would not be granted by a meaner master. If he does not hold himself bound to prove his own truth, he returns thanks for my trust. It is as though he used his countrymen's courteous hyperbole and called his house my own. In a sense of the most noble hostship he does me the honours of his picture. Because Impressionism is so free, therefore is it doubly bound.
"But when they shrug their shoulders at the same time," persisted Georgina. "A shrug can stand for almost anything," answered Barby. "Sometimes it says meaner things than words can convey." Then came the inevitable question which made Georgina wish that she had not spoken. "But why do you ask, dear? Tell me how the expression was used, and I can explain better."
Old Mistress see to that. She was meaner than old Marster, she was. She would sit by the spinning wheel and count the turns the slave women made. And they couldn't fool her none neither. My mother worked until ten o'clock almost every night because her part was to 'spend so many cuts' a day, and she couldnt get through no sooner.
Inasmuch as those people usually had recourse to the father with all their affairs, it always happened at the end of mass that he remained to answer and console his Indians, with untiring patience, without touching food until past midday, or even two or three hours later. His soul went out toward some one of those poor creatures, and the meaner the Indian, the greater was his love.
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