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He was always a scholar. So he hath sent thee here with his commendations. What should I do with all the idle country lads that come up to choke London and feed the plague? Yet stay that lurdane Bolt is getting intolerably lazy and insolent, and methinks he robs me! What canst do, thou stripling?" "I can read Latin, sir, and know the Greek alphabeta." "Tush!
If the people of Ireland are not to be trusted with real power over their own affairs, it would be a hundred times more just to England, and more merciful to Ireland, to take away from her that semblance of free government which torments and paralyzes one country, while it robs the other of national self-respect and of all the strongest motives and best opportunities of self-help.
It does not bless to-morrow, but it robs to-day. For every day has its own burden. Sufficient for each day is the evil which properly belongs to it. Do not add to-morrow's to to-day's. Do not drag the future into the present. The present has enough to do with its own proper concerns. We have always strength to bear the evil when it comes. We have not strength to bear the foreboding of it.
It was not Coleridge who found out that 'He prayeth best who loveth best' but this old proverb-maker; and he could speak the thought without the poet's exaggeration, which robs his expression of it of half its value.
In other words, the money I do not owe it, and of which it robs me, pays for the persecution which it inflicts upon me; I am reduced to paying out of my own purse the wages of my inquisitors, my jailer and my executioner. A more glaring oppression could not be imagined! Let us watch out for the encroachments of the State and not allow it to become anything more than a watch-dog.
Urquhart considered the point. James could have seen it working in his poor, wicked, silly mind, but kept his face away. "Yes," Urquhart said, "you might; but you didn't." Then he laughed again not a pleasant sound. "Man," said James indignant, "don't you see? What robs me of utterance is that I have benefited by what you have done."
But his misery only seemed to goad Bessie to fresh fury. She turned upon him, arms akimbo. "Oh! an' of course it must be me as robs yer! It couldn't be nobody else, could it? There isn't tramps, an' thieves, an' rogues 'undreds of 'em going about o' nights? Nary one, I believe yer! There isn't another thief in Clinton Magna, nobbut Bessie Costrell, is ther?
Grown-up people have no manners at all; whereas they certainly have a very keen taste for the intrinsic charm of children. They wish children to be perfectly natural. My complaint against these grown-up people is, that they themselves, whom time has robbed of their natural grace as surely as it robs the other animals, are content to be perfectly natural.
And when I think, mama darling, of all the cold, hungry, unhappy children in this great town to-night, of all the suffering children, such as those that Jack and I have been trying to help, I can't but feel that your petted little dog there robs some one." Mrs. Upton, looking down at her dog, now asleep in a profound content, continued to stroke him in silence.
But just as she gained the entrance proper, and was about to enter the dark and dusky place before her, behold! here was a great smiling throng coming along the aisle, headed by a bridegroom and a white-clothed bride. The music that was gaily pealing through the building was the 'Wedding March' that no familiarity robs of its majestic swing and melody.
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