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With this Mr Prothero walked away, leaving his brother very much perplexed and distressed, but comforting himself with hoping that time would soften even his choleric relative. Owen returned about ten o'clock.
"Passionate!" repeated Ned. "Well, I am a little choleric, I own it; but that is not so great a fault on the road as it would be in housebreaking. I don't know a thing that requires so much coolness and self-possession as cleaning out a house from top to bottom, quietly and civilly, mind you!" "That is the reason, I suppose, then," said Augustus, "that you altogether renounced that career.
It is impossible to know otherwise than by revelation, if God is offended by the empty things men say of Him. Without a thought, philosophers fall almost always into the ideas of the common herd, in supposing God to be jealous of His glory, to be choleric, to love vengeance, and in taking rhetorical figures for real ideas.
Suppose he turned out to be some awful, choleric person who would listen to no explanations. "Oh, see those starched-up collars! Hark how their captain hollers 'Keep time! Keep time! It's worth a thousand dollars To see those tip-collectors . . ." Very near now. Almost at the door. "Those upper-berth inspectors, Those Pullman porters on parade!"
The child is a poet, in fact, when he first plays at Hide-and-seek, or repeats the story of Jack the Giant-killer; the shepherd-boy is a poet when he first crowns his mistress with a garland of flowers; the countryman, when he stops to look at the rainbow; the city apprentice, when he gazes after the Lord Mayor's show; the miser, when he hugs his gold; the courtier, who builds his hopes upon a smile; the savage, who paints his idol with blood; the slave, who worships a tyrant; or the tyrant, who fancies himself a god; the vain, the ambitious, the proud, the choleric man, the hero and the coward, the beggar and the king, the rich and the poor, the young and the old, all live in a world of their own making; and the poet does no more than describe what all the others think and act.
They spoke with indulgent affection, as a nurse might persuade a bashful child to show off before company. He of the choleric blue eye was still sitting at the table with one of his hosts. He turned in his chair, smiling grimly. "What's that about me? I don't want to start scrapping in a strange mess, Snatcher, but if you really are looking for trouble !"
Here, then, was substantial choleric phraseology, as good plain speaking as her Majesty had just been employing, and with quite as sufficient cause. Here was no pleasant diplomatic fencing, but straightforward vigorous thrusts.
Q. Why do the tongues of such as are sick of agues judge all things bitter? A. Because the stomachs of such persons are filled with choleric humours; and choler is very bitter, as appeareth by the gall; therefore this bitter fume doth infect their tongues; and so the tongue, being full of these tastes, doth judge everything bitter.
"Why, we shall be detained, of course; arrested, probably certainly detained. Examined, cross-examined, bully-ragged I know something of the French police and their ways." "If they stop us, I shall write to the Times" cried his brother, by profession a man of peace, but with a choleric eye that told of an angry temperament. "By all means, my dear Silas, when you get the chance.
I, therefore, resolved to make my choleric disposition give way to reason; so that now, though born choleric, I never suffer anger intirely to overcome me.
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