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Amidst the stupidity of a formal circle, and the inanity of triflers, however such men may conceal their impatience, one of them has forcibly described the reaction of this suppressed feeling: "The force with which it burst out when the pressure was taken off, gave the measure of the constraint which had been endured."
All these he speaks of with the coolness of a theatrical critic; and I question whether he has not been gratified by each in its turn; not from any inherent love of tumult, but from that insatiable appetite for spectacle which prevails among the inhabitants of this metropolis. I have been amused with a farce, in which one of these systematic old triflers is represented.
What pursuits, too, had this one-eyed philosopher? "You have a definite pursuit, sir?" "I alas! when a man moralizes, it is a sign that he has known error: it is because I have been a trifler that I rail against triflers. And talking of that, time flies, and we must be off and away." Sophy re-tied the bundle.
We would not have the day made tedious, and it can only be so to triflers; to the true Christian it will ever be characterized by thoughtfulness and repose. The Parisian flies from the church to the railway station to join some picnic excursion, or to assist at the race-course, or he passes with a careless levity from St. Geneviève to the dance booths of the Champs Elysées.
Yet, no doubt, it is by the memory of that remark that Wolfe will live the longest, aided by the stray line of another poet, still reminding us, not needlessly, that "Wolfe's great name's cotemporal with our own." Once the poets and the sages were held to be pleasing triflers, fit for hours of relaxation in the lulls of war.
If Captain Lee is with the regiment, I know he would take care of it for her." So they plunged into another regiment, and Rachel decided that nothing was so wearisome as to hear triflers talk shop.
and give me good, strong muscles, and put tan and colour into my cheek, I need not mind the cold and the wet, nor care for the whistling of the wind in my face, nor the dash of the spray over the bows. Summer sailing in fair weather, amidst land-locked bays, in blue seas, and under calm skies, may be all very well for triflers, but 'Blown seas and storming showers'
Those poor, light-hearted people in the dreadful days of the French Revolution, used to keep up some ghastly mockery of society and cheerfulness in their prisons; and festooned the bars with flowers, and made believe to be carrying on their life freely as they used to do; but for all that, day after day the tumbrils came to the gates, and morning after morning the jailer stood at the door of the dungeons with the fatal list in his hand, and one after another of the triflers was dragged away to death.
These dainty triflers made sulking as impossible amongst them as philosophy in a ballroom.
And oh! could these triflers with sacred love these wanderers on the brink of a fearful abyss have seen the look of her face then, they would have fled from each other for ever, rather than to have dared the desperation of her roused soul. But they saw nothing, knew nothing, suspected nothing!
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