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These 'charitable' people went into the wretched homes of the poor and in effect said: 'Abandon every particle of self-respect: cringe and fawn: come to church: bow down and grovel to us, and in return we'll give you a ticket that you can take to a certain shop and exchange for a shillingsworth of groceries. And, if you're very servile and humble we may give you another one next week.
Sarah Maitland, tramping back and forth, the ball of pink worsted dragging behind her in a grimy tangle, thought these things with a sledge-hammer directness that spared herself nothing. She wanted the truth, no matter how it made her cringe to find it! She would hammer out her very heart to find the truth.
Daylight dispels the hideous visions of the night. I offer you a fresh lease of life; will you become a new man?" Paul heaved a deep sigh. "Rose," he murmured; "I cannot forget her." Mascarin frowned. "What," said he, "do you still let your thoughts dwell on that woman? There are people who cringe to the hand that strikes them, and the more they are duped and deceived, the more they love.
But there was also another reason why he did not breathe a word to her of his suspicions, and that was the slow dread that was laming him the dread of her contempt. She made no further attempt to drape it; and he had learned to writhe before it, to cringe and go softly. Weeks had passed now, since the night on which he had made his last stand against her weeks of increasing torture.
And he levelled at his father one of those double-barrelled pistols, full-cock. "Julian, my son, I forgive you, Julian; take my hand, boy." "What coward? now you can cringe, and fawn, eh? back with you! the girl, I say." For poor Emily, wild with fear, was clinging to that weak old man.
"There is the Grand Cordon of the Mejidieh; there is a way to it, Excellency." "The man's blood!" "There is a high office to be vacant soon, near to the person of the Khedive, with divers moneys and loans " "To see Donovan Pasha cringe and beg is better." "There is that mercy which one day you may have to ask for yourself or for your own " "The fool shall die. And who shall save him?"
The boy flushed and glared at his mother, who seldom spoke in this vein. "If you wasn't my mother, I'd hit you down for that," he said, clenching his fists. "What do you know about things to talk to me like that? Who are you to take his side and cringe to him?
"You may cringe and bow and bear it if you choose; you may humble yourself to such a piece of insolence; but rest assured there are plenty of men and women in the Riflers who won't bear it, Mr. Foster; and for one I won't." She had risen to her full height now, and her eyes were blazing. "For his own sake I trust the colonel will omit our names from the next entertainment he gives. Nellie shan't "
His natural discernment set all his own failings before him in the clearest light; also their consequences. He knew that he was vulgar and brutal, and that as a result all persons of real gentility looked down upon him, however much they might seem to cringe before his money and power, yes, though they chanced to be but labouring men.
He knows that men cringe lower to Brown than they do to him. He must have a million half a million is nothing. And Brown feels that he is overshadowed by Smith, with his ten millions; and so the childish emulation continues. Men are valued, not for themselves, but for their bank account. In the meantime these vast concentrations of capital are made at the expense of mankind.
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