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Pshaw! You have spoiled, with your worldliness, your greed for progress, your thirst for gain, a pleasant fancy, a glorious dream, as if everything in the heavens, on the earth, or in the waters, were to be measured by the dollar and cent standard, and unless reducible to a representative of moneyed value, to be thrown, as utterly worthless, away. Let us row back to the Lake House.
Inverawe was filled with disgust at this cowardly conduct, and already almost repented having plighted his word to save such a worthless creature. On Inverawe's return home he found a man in a state of great excitement waiting to see him. "We have," said he, "tracked the murderer to within a short distance of this place, and I am here to warn you in case he should seek your protection."
His East India dredge did not dissent to this verdict. My friend John thought the acquisition well approved. But the people, he said, were worthless; they added superstition to ignorance and fierceness, and obstinately opposed the bettering their condition.
The lawyer's face, however, became still more good-humored and sympathizing. "The case is simply this. If in the opinion of judge and jury Don Jose is declared insane, the document is worthless except as a proof of that fact or a possible indication of the undue influence of his relations, which might compel the court to select his guardians and trustees elsewhere than among them."
Children are great imitators, and adults are only children grown up. Imitation, of course, is a necessary thing. Without it no use could be made of past experience. When it conserves and propagates the good it is to be commended; but the worthless and the bad are often imitated also.
Her letters, written in the unformed hand of a child for her husband had himself taught her to read and write were filled with a riot of self-abnegation, the martyr's joy as he feels the iron enter the flesh. Thus had an illiterate, neglected girl through sheer devotion to a worthless sort of young fellow inclined to drink, entered into that noble company of martyrs.
And the stock which you sold to poor Garvin was so hopelessly watered that it never could have been anything but worthless. If, in spite of these facts, you do not deem yourself responsible for the misery which has been caused, if your conscience is now clear, it is my duty to tell you that there is a higher bar of justice."
I forced myself to write at intervals; but, as usual, the forced work was worthless, and I destroyed it when it was done. No, it was no use. I could merely shrug my shoulders and smoke and wait.
"A rare specimen like you is never safe when unscrupulous naturalists are about." "But no microscope is needed to demonstrate Mr. Kilroy's position in the scale of being," Beth put in. "It is writ large all over him." "Good and true, Beth!" said Angelica, smiling. "You can go and gloat over your worthless specimen as a reward, if you like.
Trust, then, more to my spirit than to my feeble body, and you will find that I am not as worthless as I fear you fancy." Mr. Effingham passed his arm round the slender waist of his child, and folded her almost frantically to his bosom.
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