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And the thing which mocked him most of all was that the year had been attended with the greatest professional successes of his life. He never heard his plaudits sounded without a curse in his heart. "It went mighty hard with Parkman not to be able to save Hubers," medical men said with growing frequency as the year advanced.
The lady's name was Febilla, and her family was noble, and her face fairer than any in Rome, but she only mocked Virgilius, and was always playing tricks upon him. To this end, she bade him one day come to visit her in the tower where she lived, promising to let down a basket to draw him up as far as the roof.
The words mocked him, dancing in great red letters on the pale green distemper, and he shook his feet at them childishly. "It's not fair," he raved. "It's simply not fair." And the god in charge took a glance into the room, though to the man in bed it was merely a ray from a watery sun with the little specks of dust dancing and floating in it.
Heine mocked at his countrymen and at the world in general, and deified Napoleon, from his French mattress, on which he died, in 1856, only fifty-seven years old. Fichte ended a course of lectures on Duty, with the words: "This course of lectures is suspended till the end of the campaign. We shall resume if our country become free, or we shall have died to regain our liberty."
And the people laughed and said, 'It is the King's fool who is riding by, and they mocked him. And he drew rein and said, 'Nay, but I am the King. And he told them his three dreams. And a man came out of the crowd and spake bitterly to him, and said, 'Sir, knowest thou not that out of the luxury of the rich cometh the life of the poor? By your pomp we are nurtured, and your vices give us bread.
The silence returned like a heavy blanket; even the little birds listened in fear. He called again. Again there was the echo; then the heavy silence. "Funny," grumbled Phil. "She's either mighty badly hurt or she's deliberately hiding on me. Where are you, Miss Wil Miss Lawson, I mean?" he shouted. " awson, I mean mean," mocked the double echo.
But there were also throngs of well-dressed citizens and women, who loudly and fearlessly mocked at the gay music and exulting simpletons, who allowed themselves to be cajoled by empty promises. Where was the relief? What could the handful of Beggars which at the utmost were all the troops the Prince could bring do against King Philip's terrible military power, that surrounded Leyden?
The little wretch! She deserted me and flew to that pretty mother of hers in her long, cool white trailing things, and sat in her arms and mocked at me. It was easy enough to begin talking. I told her a tale about being a newspaper woman out on a story; how I'd run across the baby and all the rest of it.
No man told me, yet was I sure and certain that she was saying somewhat which concerned me, and presently I discerned in the dim back-ground the feathered plume which Ursula had worn at the dance. My heart beat with fears; every word spoken by the old Dame would of a surety do us a mischief. Hans mocked at my alarms and at a maid's folly in ever taking to herself matters which concern her not.
"I want to learn I want to be of use in the world. I want to have some kind of a real life." "Really?" mocked he good-humoredly. "Really," said she with all her power of sweet earnestness. "Then cut your nails and go to work. And when you have become a genuine laborer, you'll begin to try to improve not the condition of others, but your own.
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