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Its natural advantages are fully equal to those of Guadalajara, but here pulque grows and man is more torpid. All the place has a hopeless, or at least ambitionless, air, though in this splendid climate poverty has less tinge of misery and the appearance of a greater contentment with its lot.
For a father to start a son in any calling but his own, or a vocation that is similar, would be "against his caste." Caste is social as well as religious, and includes the occupation as well as the creed. For a Hindu to rise from his inherited caste is next to impossible, and this tends to make the Hindus an ambitionless race.
Kaikilani became the wife of the heir-apparent, who cared so little for government, however, that the young woman was made chief. Her marriage to this easy-going, ambitionless, though generous prince had been a failure. As it was a state marriage, she cared little for him. His stalwart brother, Lono, was the object of her love and admiration.
The mission grapes, olives, and oranges have died out by reason of fourteen years' neglect. The mechanic arts are absent. What shall the harvest of this idle land be? Valois knows the interior Indians will never bear the strain of development. Lazy and ambitionless, they are incapable of uniting their tribal forces. Alas for them! They merely cumber the ground.
I stood alone, ironical, ambitionless, still questioning the utility of human effort, yet determined to play the game of life to its bitter end. What could I do?
Have the goodness to look at me, will you?" "With pleasure, sir!" "Well, what do I look like?" "The very hacme of a gentleman, sir!" "Kind of you, Brimberly, but I know myself for an absolutely useless thing a purposeless, ambitionless wretch, drifting on to God knows what.
As if it were not enough, had I been a fool, an ambitionless, soulless fool,-the mere thought that I had linked my name to that of a tradesman, I beg pardon, a retired tradesman! as if that knowledge a knowledge I would strangle my whole race, every one who has ever met, seen me, rather than they should penetrate were not enough, when she talks of 'comparing, to make me gnaw the very flesh from my bones!
But I do ask you to believe that I have them, that they are real, and that my being what you termed ambitionless and a country loafer is not my condition from choice. It is my right to insist upon your believing that. Do you believe it?" At last I had made an impression. My earnestness seemed to have shaken her contemptuous indifference.
A clogging lassitude had descended upon her, the reaction of cumulative nervous stress, anesthetizing her will, her desires, her very limbs. She was purposeless, ambitionless, except to lie and rest and seek for some resolution of peace out of the tangled web wherein her own willfulness had involved her. "The best possible thing," said Camilla Van Arsdale.
In their haunts of crime the criminals live a lazy ambitionless life and regard work as an evil to be avoided; the reformatory system, however, captures his interest on behalf of industry by making his liberty depend upon his having reached the status of an honest and enthusiastic tradesman.
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