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Thus he spent his latter years, in imitation of his great Lord and Master, the ever-blessed Jesus; he went about doing good, so that the most prying critic, or even malice herself, is defied to find, even upon the narrowest search or observation, any sully or stain upon his reputation with which he may be justly charged; and this we note as a challenge to those that have had the least regard for him, or them of his persuasion, and have, one way or other, appeared in the front of those that oppressed him, and for the turning whose hearts, in obedience to the commission and commandment given him of God, he frequently prayed, and sometimes sought a blessing for them, even with tears, the effects of which they may, peradventure, though undeservedly, have found in their persons, friends, relations, or estates; for God will hear the prayers of the faithful, and answer them, even for those that vex them, as it happened in the case of Job's praying for the three persons that had been grievous in their reproach against him, even in the day of his sorrow.
'Do not vex yourself, said the horse, when he had heard the story; 'jump up, and we will go and look for the things. And Jose mounted at once. They rode on till they came to the ant-hill, and then the horse asked: 'Would you like to have the bran? 'What is the use of liking? answered Jose.
Since he took a pleasure in spending his money partly to vex Basche, partly to see those catchpoles banged, good lusty thumps would have done well on his shaved crown, considering the horrid concussions nowadays among those puny judges. What harm had done those poor devils the catchpoles? This puts me in mind, said Pantagruel, of an ancient Roman named L. Neratius.
"You all mistake me. It's not for the place that I work, but because I want to know, to learn; not to grow up quite stupid and empty-headed as I otherwise should do." "What a love for work you have, Daubeny." "Yes, I have now; but do you know it really wasn't natural to me. As a child, I used to be idle and get on very badly, and it used to vex my poor father, who was then living, very much.
I see by the anger in your eye an' the whiteness of your cheeks, barrin' the little red spot in the middle, that something out o' the way all out has happened to vex you."
"Good God, Sue don't be so awfully merciless! ... There, dear one, I didn't mean it!" "Ah you are vexed!" she said regretfully, as she blinked away an access of eye moisture. "And I promised never to vex you! ... I suppose I ought not to have asked you to bring me in here. Oh, I oughtn't! I see it now. My curiosity to hunt up a new sensation always leads me into these scrapes.
Ridiculous convictions! ridiculous fears! Men with morbid minds are their own tormentors. It doesn't matter how I suffer, so long as you are at ease. I shall never thwart you or vex you again. Have you a better opinion of me now?" She made the best of all answers she gave him her hand. "May I kiss it?" he asked, as timidly as if he had been a boy addressing his first sweetheart.
"You wear a lynx-skin for a saddle-cloth," he said, "yet that lynx never squalled within a thousand miles of these hills." "Do you mean to say there are no lynxes here?" I asked. "Plenty, sir, but their ears bear no black-and-white marks. Pardon, I do not mean to vex you; I read as I run, sir; it is my habit."
"Carl has no right to vex Mrs. Crawford. Besides, he can't agree with Peter." "Is that his fault or Peter's?" asked Gilbert, significantly. "I am not acquainted with the circumstances, but Mrs. Crawford says that Carl is always bullying Peter." "He never bullied anyone at school." "Is there anything, else you want?" "Yes, sir; Carl only took away a little underclothing in a gripsack.
'All a man can do in this matter of judgment, said Richard, 'is to lead his fellow man, if so be he can, up to the judgment of God. He must never dare judge him for himself. An' thou cannot tell whether thou did well or ill in what thou didst, thou shouldst not vex thy soul. God is thy refuge even from the wrongs of thine own judgment.
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