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He became a pleasure-lover; but more than that, he needed one who could understand his moods and match them, one who could please his tastes, and one who could give him that admiration which he felt to be his due; for he was always anxious to be praised, and his letters are full of anecdotes relating to his love of praise. One does not wish to follow out these clues too closely.
This is a heavenly surprise to any passer-by; but the price paid, to keep so many ardent and winged creatures from their liberty, will make the luxury too dear for any thoughtful pleasure-lover. There is only one sort of bird that I can tolerate caged, though even then I think it hard, and that is what is called in France the Bec- d'Argent.
A typical young-man-about-town, an indolent pleasure-lover, always dressed to perfection and flush with money such was Victor Nevill in the opinion of the world. For aught men knew to the contrary, he thrived like the proverbial lily of the field, without the need of toiling or spinning. He lived in expensive rooms, dined at the best restaurants, and belonged to a couple of good clubs.
It was not very explicit; on the contrary, it was rather incoherent. "You would better come on as fast as you can if you want to save your friend's life. He has been tried and found guilty of just what, I don't know and will be hanged pretty soon within a few days, I think." "Now that's a nice way to stir a fellow up, isn't it?" soliloquized the pleasure-lover.
"As long as I steer clear of the law and avoid breaking my neck, what other consequences are there that I need to keep worrying about? "Why shouldn't I be a pleasure-seeker and a pleasure-lover? Why shouldn't I follow my inclinations and do what I like, whenever and wherever I get the chance?" Why not?
He was a pleasure-lover, alas! he laid up no treasure of work accomplished; and so it was meet that he should die as he lived, in a moment of ease. And already he is forgotten. It is the custom here.
He who lives to eat, drink, sleep, dress, take his walk, in short, pamper himself all that he can be it the courtier basking in the sun, the drunken laborer, the commoner serving his belly, the woman absorbed in her toilettes, the profligate of low estate or high, or simply the ordinary pleasure-lover, a "good fellow," but too obedient to material needs that man or woman is on the downward way of desire, and the descent is fatal.
This is a heavenly surprise to any passer-by; but the price paid, to keep so many ardent and winged creatures from their liberty, will make the luxury too dear for any thoughtful pleasure-lover. There is only one sort of bird that I can tolerate caged, though even then I think it hard, and that is what is called in France the Bec-d'Argent.
It was a new enthusiasm that changed Augustine the epicurean into Augustine the church father. It was a new enthusiasm that turned Howard the pleasure-lover into Howard the prison-reformer. It was a glowing heart that lent power to Mazzini and Garibaldi and gave Italy her new hope and liberty. Indeed, the history of each life is the history of its new loves.
"And you, are you quite well?" she asked. "Quite well," he answered; and as she sat down near him he instinctively pushed his chair back. He did not seem at all pleased at having met her. He had been on familiar terms with her during his earlier days at the Beauchene works. She was a frantic pleasure-lover, and destitute of both conscience and moral principles.
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