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The Infinite Power has endowed us with reasoning faculties, and evidently expects us to use them to their full capacity else the gift were a mockery. And in the absence of information from higher sources than the Reason, we must use the Reason in thinking of this matter, or else refuse to think of it at all.
He stared at Maxime, seeming happy to find him already wrinkled at thirty-two, with his hair and beard sprinkled with snow. "Ah, well!" he added, "we are all growing old. But I, at least, have no great reason to complain. I am solid." And he planted himself firmly on his legs with his air of ferocious mockery, while his fiery red face seemed to flame and burn.
She took the communion in the open air, before their eyes; and a company of priests, headed by her chaplain, Pasquerel, led the way whilst chanting sacred hymns. Great was the surprise amongst the men-at-arms, many had words of mockery on their lips. It was the time when La Hire used to say, "If God were a soldier, He would turn robber."
It was the merest monochrome roughing in of a head, but it presented the dumb waiting, the longing, and, above all, the hopeless enslavement of the man, in a spirit of bitter mockery. 'I'll buy it, said Dick, promptly, 'at your own price. 'My price is too high, but I dare say you'll be as grateful if The wet sketch, fluttered from the girl's hand and fell into the ashes of the studio stove.
His voice changed from mockery to savage determination. "I want that diagram, an' I want it right now, or I'll tear you to pieces. Do you understand? I'll beat you up so's your own mother wouldn't know you." His grip tightened on her arms, they were twisted until she screamed with agony.
It seemed to smile in mockery of my dismay. 'I might have consoled myself by imagining the little people had put the mechanism in some shelter for me, had I not felt assured of their physical and intellectual inadequacy. That is what dismayed me: the sense of some hitherto unsuspected power, through whose intervention my invention had vanished.
Look at Rembrandt's old woman in our National Gallery; had she died before she was eighty-three years old she would not have been living now. Then, when she was eighty-three, immortality perched upon her as a bird on a withered bough. I seem to hear some one say that this is a mockery, a piece of special pleading, a giving of stones to those that ask for bread.
Passengers carry all sorts of luxuries on board, in the firm faith that they shall be able to profit by them all. Friends send them various indigestibles. To many all these well-meant preparations soon become a mockery, almost an insult.
But her eyes showed a certain mockery. "I wonder why you undertook it!" "So do I. But well, I couldn't help it. We won't discuss that. But what I had very little idea of was the modern girl!" Cynthia laughed out. "And now you have discovered her in one day?" He laughed too, but rather dismally. "Oh, I am only on the first step. What I shall come to presently, I don't know.
I will here say nothing of the fact that some fast in such a way that they none the less drink themselves full; some fast by eating fish and other foods so lavishly that they would come much nearer to fasting if they ate meat, eggs and butter, and by so doing would obtain far better results from their fasting. For such fasting is not fasting, but a mockery of fasting and of God.
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