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Oh! how have I wasted in childish amusements, and frivolous vanities, the precious moments of that girlhood which can never be recalled, and left myself scarcely worthy to be an associate of Eve Effingham!"
"I will content myself with nothing less I promise you that." "Oh, no doubt you will believe that the woman you marry is all that you dream or wish; but some fine morning you will present me with a sister as full of foibles and vanities and frailties as any other spoiled and cunning daughter of Eve.
For a coxcomb there is no mercy for a coquet no pardon. They are, as it were, the dissenters of society no crime is too bad to be imputed to them; they do not believe the religion of others they set up a deity of their own vanity all the orthodox vanities of others are offended. Then comes the bigotry the stake the auto-da-fe of scandal. What, alas! is so implacable as the rage of vanity?
And it is worth remarking, that they both made the disqualifying observation after attainments almost incredible. As there was no being a hero by any idler way, so there is no being a Christian by any easier road. The necessity of pursuit is the same in both cases, though the objects pursued differ as widely as the vanities of time from the riches of eternity.
He did so on one occasion. Add to this perfect knowledge of his craft, that he had a self-control which never permitted him to anticipate his gains or spread too wide his sails; that his industry knew no pause; that he was a close, hard bargainer, keeping his word to the letter, but exacting his rights to the letter; that he had no vices and no vanities; that he had no toleration for those calamities which result from vices and vanities; that his charities, though frequent, were bestowed only upon unquestionably legitimate objects, and were never profuse; that he was as wise in investing as skilful in gaining money; that he made his very pleasures profitable to himself in money gained, to his neighborhood in improved fruits and vegetables; that he had no family to maintain and indulge; that he held in utter aversion and contempt the costly and burdensome ostentation of a great establishment, fine equipages, and a retinue of servants; that he reduced himself to a money-making machine, run at the minimum of expense; and we have an explanation of his rapidly acquired wealth, He used to boast, after he was a millionaire, of wearing the same overcoat for fourteen winters; and one of his clerks, who saw him every day for twenty years, declares that he never remembered having seen him wear a new-looking garment but once.
But let us not laugh; there may be creatures in existence to whom we and our vanities and profundities may seem as ludicrous." Near the margin of the great river the scientists presently found a huge, shapely stone, with this inscription: "In 1847, in the spring, the river overflowed its banks and covered the whole township. The depth was from two to six feet.
"If the place be as much changed as the road that leads to it," returned la belle Barbérie, glancing her dark eye, in vain, in the direction of the bay they had quitted, "I should scarcely venture an opinion on a subject of which I am obliged to confess utter ignorance." "Ah, woman is nought but vanities! To see and to be seen, is the delight of the sex.
Then Sylvia put on her hat, and, looking up at Foster's windows, caught Hester's face of interest, and smiled and blushed at the consciousness of having been watched over her little vanities, and Hester smiled back, but rather sadly. Then a customer came in, and she had to attend to her business, which, on this as on all market days, was great.
I understand everything, even the vanities of wealth. "I find myself shedding all the pearls of the Indies at your feet; I fancy you reclining either on the rarest flowers, or on the softest tissues, and all the splendor of the world seems hardly worthy of you, for whom I would I could command the harmony and the light that are given out by the harps of seraphs and the stars of heaven!
Charles touched his cap to him. "Welcome, brother," said the jester; "do you raise your hat to me because you are no longer emperor?" "No," answered Charles, "but because this sorry courtesy is all I have left to give you." On quitting Valladolid Charles seemed to turn his back finally on the world, with all its pomps and vanities.
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