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For a dramatist all is grist that makes revolve the sails of his advertising mill, and as there is nothing as lucrative as notoriety, Wedekind must have been happy. He is a hard hitter and dearly loves a fight a Hibernian trait and his pen was soon transformed into a club, with which he rained blows on the ribs of his adversaries.
But, still, no trait of original nobility of character, no struggle against temptation, no iron necessity of will, on the one hand, nor extenuating circumstance to be derived from passion and despair, on the other, no remorse that might coexist with error, even if powerless to prevent it, no proud repentance that should claim retribution as a meed, would go unappreciated.
This incident developed a strange, and to me a very sad, trait of human nature, other illustrations of which I have observed repeatedly since, an unusual disposition to witticisms in the most solemn circumstances, when it might be supposed that even the most hardened would reflect upon the fearful fate sure to seize upon some of them.
For it is a royal trait to thank with the same graciousness and warmth the donors of the humblest and the greatest offerings. There was a paper-knife for Uncle Tom, and a workbasket for Aunt Mary, and a dress apiece for Catherine, Bridget, and Mary Ann, none of whom Peter ever forgot.
In Germany he is called the nine-killer, from the belief that he kills and sticks upon thorns nine grasshoppers a day. To make my portrait of the shrike more complete, I will add another trait of his described by an acute observer who writes me from western New York.
Thus too, there was a Louis XI. I have remembered his name, for one remembers what is bad a trait of him often comes into my thoughts, and I wish one could say the story is not true.
There were certain offences, such as rape, the robbery of a friend, or murder under circumstances of cowardice and treachery, which were never forgiven; but the fact that when the country was wild a young fellow had gone on the road that is, become a highwayman, or had been chief of a gang of desperadoes, horse-thieves, and cattle-killers, was scarcely held to weigh against him, being treated as a regrettable, but certainly not shameful, trait of youth.
It is impossible to part from the noble king of the Arverni without a feeling of historical and human sympathy; but it is a significant trait of the Celtic nation, that its greatest man was after all merely a knight. The Last Conflicts With the Bituriges and Carnutes
These powers answer to an acquired bias, not to an underlying trait of human nature; a matter of habit, not of heredity. Such an historical instance is the so-called Republic, or Commonwealth, of Iceland tenth to thirteenth centuries. Its case is looked on by students of history as a spectacular anomaly, because it admitted none of these primary powers of government in its constituted authorities.
No! they rambled unrestrained upon the souvenir of an object of woman's preference and princess's caprice, who for some time past had no more crossed her path. It was on that account her brow was clouded, and that a trait of sadness shaded her smiling mouth.
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