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Cobra de Capello. The cobra de capello is the only one exhibited by the itinerant snake-charmers: and the truth of Davy's conjecture, that they control it, not by extracting its fangs, but by courageously availing themselves of its well-known timidity and extreme reluctance to use its fatal weapons, received a painful confirmation during my residence in Ceylon, by the death of one of these performers, whom his audience had provoked to attempt some unaccustomed familiarity with the cobra; it bit him on the wrist, and he expired the same evening.
These humble, old-fashioned illustrations occur to me as I apply myself to the consideration of the question provoked by the lightning over-production of modern fiction and modern literature generally: the question of the flourishing longevity of the fiction of the past as compared with the swift oblivion which seems almost invariably to over-take the much-advertised "masterpieces" of the present.
"He that would be great among you," said Christ, "let him serve." He that would be happy, let him remember that there is but one way "it is more blessed, it is more happy, to give than to receive." The next ingredient is a very remarkable one: Good temper. "Love is not provoked." Nothing could be more striking than to find this here.
This provoked Galileo, and led him to attack authority with still greater vehemence, adding mockery to sarcasm; which again exasperated his opponents, and doubtless laid the foundation of that personal hostility which afterwards pursued him to the prison of the Inquisition.
Their stopping of the wells was a common act of hostility, and an effectual one in that land, where everything lives where water comes, and dies if it is cut off. Abimelech's reason for 'extraditing' Isaac might have provoked a more pugnacious person to stay and defy the Philistines to expel him.
From James' standpoint his own boat was not visible and it was not surprising that he should suspect our hero of having appropriated his boat. "I won't undeceive him" he thought. "What do you want?" he asked, resting on his oars, and looking back at James. "You know what I want," said James, provoked. "How should I know?" "I want you to come right back, at once." "What's happened?
"I'm as obliged to you as if you'd paid for my board and lodging, Mallow," he said; "and that's saying a good deal in these days. I'll never have a bigger fight. You're a greater swordsman than your reputation. I must have provoked you beyond reason," he went on gallantly. "I think we'd better forget the whole thing." "I'm a Loyalist," Mallow replied.
These, and various other causes, had provoked the Parliament to use expressions of the highest indignation at the measures of the court, and to a peremptory refusal of further supplies for the war unless the Dutch, by their obstinacy in rejecting terms of peace, should render its continuance unavoidable.
He flourished his stick and the tramp hurried away. "It's no use," he whined. "Grab and bluff! Him what can do it best always wins. That's the way the world goes!" "When I took these clothes off the back of my vanishing friend I felt that they would make a change in my life," stated Farr, with a smile which provoked more laughter.
'Halloo, Hamilton, where did you spring from? going to the carriage door to speak to my fellow-passenger. I was so provoked at this, fearing an introduction, for Max was such a friendly soul, that I went to the luggage-van and began counting my boxes, and Max did not hurry himself to look after me. 'Now, then, he observed cheerily, when he condescended to join me, 'is your luggage all right?
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