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Being sequent to the settlement of Monsieur Fromagin's monthly bill always a matter of nettling dispute it naturally tended to develop its own asperities. "They say," observed Monsieur Fromagin, "that the cat it was among his many tricks had the habitude to jump on Madame Jolicoeur's head when, for that purpose, she covered it with a night-cap.
"And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show; All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree" SOUTHEY. "Even Power itself hath not one-half the might of Gentleness" LEIGH HUNT. It has been said that men succeed in life quite as much by their temper as by their talents.
"I am now sensible that there were needless asperities in my review of 'Marmion, and from the hurry in which I have been forced to write, I dare say there may be some here also.... I am sincerely proud both of your genius and of your glory, and I value your friendship more highly than most either of my literary or political opinions."
What rounded off his natural asperities, and moulded up his virtues? Love mainly. It permeated every pore, and seasoned every fibre of his being, as could nothing else. Mark that matronly woman. In the bosom of her family she is more than a queen and goddess combined. All her looks and actions express the outflowing of some or all of the human virtues. To know her is to love her.
God knows, it is better to grow giddy on a ladder than to think that this majestic earth is such an universal pestilence. The Asperities of the Early British Reviewers On a rare occasion they assail an unprofitable book, but even this is often but a bit of practice. They swish a bludgeon to try their hand.
In all this he was so diligently humble and self-denying that in the third year he was admitted fully to the order and given the honourable office of sweeping and cleansing the sacred places. In this duty Angelo showed an extraordinary devotion. Not content with this, he soon began to practise upon himself particular and extreme asperities and macerations.
At the distance of three hundred yards from his house, on the top of a rock whose sides were steep, rugged, and encumbered with dwarf cedars and stony asperities, he built what to a common eye would have seemed a summer-house. The eastern verge of this precipice was sixty feet above the river which flowed at its foot.
"He's no gentleman!" "Why ma'am," says I, "he's a plain incumbent of the mountains, with asperities and the usual failings of a spendthrift and a liar, but I never on the most momentous occasion had the heart to deny that he was a gentleman.
The electric light was here intensified a hundredfold by reflection. The only difficulty in proceeding lay in not sliding too fast down an incline of about forty-five degrees; happily certain asperities and a few blisterings here and there formed steps, and we descended, letting our baggage slip before us from the end of a long rope.
He saw himself an alert man of forty-five, a good citizen, always on the side of civic honor; a good captain of industry, quick to see and reward merit; a good husband who loved and cherished his wife as on the day he married her, and protected her from all the asperities of reality; a good father he had almost an actual vision of the children who would carry on his work in life girls of Lydia's beauty and sweetness, boys with his energy and uprightness and there was Lydia, too, the Lydia of twenty years from now in the full bloom of physical allurement still, a gracious hostess, a public-spirited matron, lending the luster of his name to all worthy charities indorsed by the best people, laying down with a firm good taste dictates as to the worthy social development of the town.
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