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Updated: May 25, 2025
If it is our duty to say to the poor, 'Learn how to be poor; that is, how to work, to endure, to strive, it is equally our duty to say to the rich, 'Learn your duty as prosperous men, that is to say, 'Be wise, be intelligent in your benevolence; pious and virtuous in the place to which God has called you. Ah! madame, you are only the steward of Him who grants you wealth; if you do not obey His behests you will never transmit to your children the prosperity He gives you.
The countess had claimed her prey, in order that she might carry him off to Miss Dunstable's golden embrace. The prey, not yet old enough and wise enough to connect the worship of Plutus with that of Venus, had made sundry futile feints and dodges in the vain hope of escape. Then the anxious mother had enforced the de Courcy behests with all a mother's authority.
When the flow of my tears had ceased, I did not want to tarry a moment in the accomplishment of his last behests. I ran to his bed-chamber, opened his desk, and found the two portraits. One, a valuable miniature, represents a woman of twenty-five, the other is a photograph of Anna Campbell at the age of fifteen.
It must be something of a more than common nature which induces Marchdale not only to obey the behests of his mysterious companion, but to supply him so readily with money as we perceive he promises to do.
The work will never be perfected or finished except on condition of continual fulfilment, moment by moment, of the separate behests of that divine will.
Methought he felt his bondage bitterly, and would fain have dared to be a true king. Even at the last, he bade me to his garde-robe, and all there were unhurt. 'And wherefore obeyed you not? 'The carouse would have kept me too late for our flight. 'King's behests may not lightly be disregarded, said the old courtier, with a smile.
She had for some time naturally thought that Charley Blount would be the proper person to perform her behests, and she felt certain that he would very gladly undertake the task she might assign him. She put the matter before him, and to her great delight he at once undertook her mission.
His father's brow got blacker and blacker from day to day, as the old man looked at his hopeless son. And as for Madeline poor Madeline, whom of all of them he liked the best she had enough to do to shift for herself. No; come what might, he must cling to his sister and obey her behests, let them be ever so stern or at the very least seem to obey them.
They will find me at work as usual early to-morrow morning, and if it is still your wish to rob me of my property you must use violence to attain your purpose." "Calm yourself," replied Apollonius. "Every one beneath the moon must submit to a higher power; the gods bow to destiny, we mortals to the sovereign. You are a sage; I, merely mindful of the behests of duty, administer my office.
I have never wondered since that the Chinese women allow their daughters' feet to be encased in iron shoes, nor that the Hindoo widows walk calmly to the funeral pyre; for great are the penalties of those who dare resist the behests of the tyrant Custom. Nevertheless the agitation has been kept up, in a mild form, both in England and America.
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