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Ministers are examined as to their loyalty to the government, their sermons are read to private judges of their orthodoxy, the confessional is established, and the alter-service is restored. It is a time when earnest men and women cannot be trifled with on soul concerns.
I recalled my misfortunes and scrutinized my conduct; and was not long in concluding that all I had suffered was through my own fault, and that when fortune would have crowned me with happiness I had persistently trifled that happiness away. I had just succeeded in escaping from a trap where I might have perished, or at least have been overwhelmed with shame, and I shuddered at the thought.
From this person I met with a very cold reception; the letter was thought to be of too old a date to deserve notice: indeed, my ragged appearance might have rendered any one cautious how he committed himself with his correspondents, in paying me a large sum of money on their account; bills and letters of credit are, besides, often trifled with in the mutual dealings of Eastern merchants; and I thus experienced a flat refusal, accompanied, however, with an offer of lodgings in the man's house.
She felt indignantly that she had been trifled with that he had asked her to be his wife without caring to make her so, and that he might perhaps have trifled in the same manner with Cynthia West. If that were the case, Enid Vane said to herself that she could never forgive him.
Soon afterwards we parted. As she passed out she told me I might at any hour expect a visit from the Governor. The Governor visited me. His attitude was marked by nothing so much as a supercilious courtesy, a manner which said, You must see I am not to be trifled with; and though I have you here in my chateau, it is that I may make a fine scorching of you in the end.
He continued, 'Jane, you must not think me unkind, your father desired me to talk to you, and, indeed, the time of recovery from sickness is too precious to be trifled away. Jane wept bitterly. Presently he said, 'It grieves me to have been obliged to speak harshly to you, you must forgive me if I have talked too much to you, Jane.
I had long suspected her secret, but when I touched upon it last night she made my blood tingle by her magnificent resentment. I would sooner have trifled with an enraged empress. Look at her now, smiling, serene, and, although not in the least artful, keeping all her secrets with consummate art. Who would imagine that she was capable of such a volcanic outburst?
And although I am willing to be as considerate as any man ought to be in giving you time to think over the question, there is a limit to my patience. Any necessary delay I will put up with, but I won't be trifled with. I hate all nonsense, and can't stand it. 'Indeed. Good morning. 'But Mrs. Petherwin just one word. 'I have nothing to say. 'I will meet you at Rouen for an answer.
How else can I free myself from the self-reproach of having trifled with her, of " Dunham shook his head compassionately. "You can't do it that way. Your only safety is to fight it to the death, to run from it." "But if I don't choose to fight it?" shouted Staniford, "if I don't choose to run from it? If I " "For Heaven's sake, hush!
In the meantime the monkeys climbed to the bear's head and began a little dance of their own. "Now for a little sport," whispered Tom, and started for the hotel. "Be careful of yourself!" warned Dick; "That bear looks as if he wasn't to be trifled with." But Tom did not heed him, his whole mind being bent on having a laugh at the expense of the Italian and his animals.
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