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The young beauties were beginning to look down on Beatrix as an old maid, and sneer, and call her one of Charles II.'s ladies, and ask whether her portrait was not in the Hampton Court Gallery? But still she reigned, at least in one man's opinion, superior over all the little misses that were the toasts of the young lads; and in Esmond's eyes was ever perfectly lovely and young.
"A man who may try to carry out the Ford idea," he qualified; adding, "The desert will get hold of him and eat him alive, as it has the others." "Maybe," said Hallock thoughtfully. Then, with sudden heat, "It's hell, Gridley! I've hung on and waited and done the work for their figure-heads, one after another. The job belongs to me!" This time Gridley's smile was a thinly veiled sneer.
A sceptical writer has observed, with something like a sneer, that the noblest utterances of Gospel morality may be paralleled from the writings of heathen philosophers. The sneer is pointless, and Christian moralists have spontaneously drawn attention to the fact.
'Do they teach you to hate me, eh? 'No, no. For shame. Oh, no! cried the child. 'To love me, perhaps? pursued her brother with a sneer. 'To do neither, she returned. 'They never speak to me about you. Indeed they never do. 'I dare be bound for that, he said, darting a bitter look at the grandfather. 'I dare be bound for that Nell. Oh! I believe you there!
"I've a right to walk here if I choose," replied Gilks, sulkily; "what are you here for?" "To find you. I want to speak to you," replied Silk. "I don't want to speak to you," replied Gilks, moving on. "Don't you?" replied Silk, with a sneer. "You'll have to do it whether you want or not, my boy."
'How very charming! said he, with something between a smile and a sneer. 'David and Jonathan or, to be more classical and less scriptural, Damon and Pythias eh? These papers, then, are from the faithful abroad, the exiles in Holland, ye understand, who are thinking of making a move and of coming over to see King James in his own country with their swords strapped on their thighs.
"Your highness is very particular," observed Captain Hawkesford with a scarcely suppressed sneer. "No man can be too particular in doing what is right," said Reginald, turning away from his guest, to whom he had hitherto paid just as much attention as etiquette required.
Still, it would have been an act of pretty politeness to you." "Oh, I think the less pretty politeness European women have from these Orientals the better!" she said, almost with a sneer. "You're thinking of that horrible German woman in the Fayyūm. But Baroudi's very well looked on by the English in Egypt. I found that out in Cairo, when I left you to go to the Fayyūm.
I am forced to make these remarks to show that the Mediaeval peasant was not necessarily miserable because he was ignorant, or isolated, or poor. In so doing I may excite the wrath of some who think a little knowledge is not a dangerous thing, and may appear to be throwing cold water on one of the noblest endeavors of modern times. But I do not sneer at education.
Our impulse to sneer, to forget, is at root a good one. We recognise that emotion is not enough, and that men and women are personalities capable of sustained relations, not mere opportunities for an electrical discharge. Yet we rate the impulse too highly. We do not admit that by collisions of this trivial sort the doors of heaven may be shaken open.
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