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A married priest with whom he was acquainted filled him with disgust. All this, no doubt, was but a survival of his long religious training. He retained the notion that a priest cannot, must not, weaken; the idea that when one has dedicated oneself to God one cannot take possession of oneself again.
The grave of this brave woman is still decorated with flowers by the people of the district; and incense is burned before her tomb. To kill oneself at command a duty which no loyal samurai would have dreamed of calling in question appears to us much less difficult than another duty, also fully accepted: the sacrifice of children, wife, and household for the sake of the lord.
When circumstances of fear arise, he becomes freed from fear who frees others from situations of fear. There has never been, nor will there ever be, a gift that is superior to the gift of life. It is certain that there is nothing dearer to oneself than one's life. Death, O Bharata, is a calamity or evil unto all creatures.
One may think oneself master, married, rich, a kammer-junker, as much as one likes, and at the same time not know what it means. After supper some one downstairs began singing in a tenor voice. "Why, nothing special has happened," I tried to persuade myself. "Why am I so upset? I won't go downstairs tomorrow, that's all; and that will be the end of our quarrel."
If a comedy writer should ever be inclined to amuse the public by depicting my foibles I would readily give my assent if he agreed to let me join him in the work, as I could relate things far more amusing than any which he could invent. But I find that I am transgressing the first rule which my excellent masters laid down, viz., never to speak of oneself.
All women are not capable of it.... And time passes, the years go by, youth fades: and yet there were lovely things and good things in us all useless, for day by day they die, and one has to surrender them to the fools and people whom one despises, people who will despise oneself!... And nobody understands! One would think that we were sphinxes.
A moment later he was exchanging the most cordial of greetings with his old friend. "You have the knack, my dear de Grost," he remarked, "of turning up in the most surprising places. I certainly did not know that amongst your many accomplishments was included a love for field sports." Peter smiled quietly. He was a very fine shot, and knew it. "One must amuse oneself these days," he said.
These two acid tongues had taken possession of the Dauphine, a character naturally prone to jealousy, and they permitted themselves against the lady in waiting all the mockery and all the depreciation that one can permit oneself against the absent.
It is certainly very sweet to be at home again; to find oneself in familiar scenes, with all the pretty homely comfortable things waiting patiently for us to return pictures, books, rooms, tree, kindly people.
Just send the money whether by express order or by bank draft or cheque, they left that entirely to oneself, as a matter between Cuban gentlemen. And they were quite frank about their enterprise bananas and tobacco in the plantation district reclaimed from the insurrectos. You could see it all there in the pictures tobacco plants and the insurrectos everything.
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