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"You have said nothing to his vanity; when shall I be a knight of the king's orders?" "Does that interest you?" "Why, yes, sire. My friend Athos is quite covered with orders, and that dazzles me." "You shall be a knight of my order a month after you have taken your commission of captain." "Ah! ah!" said the officer, thoughtfully, "after the expedition." "Precisely."
The higher their standard rises, the lower falls their estimate of themselves; till, in utter humiliation and self-distrust, they seek comfort ere alone it can be found in FAITH in utter faith and trust in that very moral perfection of Christ which shames and dazzles them, and yet is their only hope. To trust in Him for themselves and all they love.
Elena gave her a tender, appealing look and said: "When it is so bright you want everything to be as clear as it is around us now." "Is everything really clear now?" exclaimed Elisaveta. "The sun blinds your eyes, the water flashes and dazzles, and in this ragingly bright world we do not even know whether there isn't some one a couple of paces away peeping at us."
But you replied to me with the touching words: 'I understand your refusal, my friend; it is not occasioned by false modesty, but by a sentiment of dignity that I love and respect. Who told you," continued the workgirl, with increasing animation, "that I should be so happy to find a little solitary retreat in this magnificent house, which dazzles me with its splendor?
The temple in the midst raised on a high platform, and approached by steps, was decorated with exquisite paintings, some of which we saw in the museum at Portici. It is small, of the same materials as the chapel, with a pavement of mosaic, and fluted Ionic columns of white stucco, so white that it dazzles you to look at it.
But it was not from originality, which really made his predominant merit, that Maltravers derived his reputation, for his originality was not of that species which generally dazzles the vulgar it was not extravagant nor bizarre he affected no system and no school. Many authors of his day seemed more novel and unique to the superficial.
Yet, though calumny has done its bitterest against him, Hannibal not only dazzles the imagination, but takes captive the heart. He stands out as the incarnation of magnanimity and patriotism and self-sacrificing heroism, no less than of incomparable military genius.
Every new situation and employment dazzles till we find out the trick of it. The boy longs to escape from a farm to college, from college to the city and practical life. Then he looks up from his desk, or from the pit in the theatre, to the gay world of fashion, harder to conquer than even the world of thought.
If I should sign a contract, which I suppose, as a business man, you would want, to live up to the letter of your specifications, even then I could not do it. I should make life a torture for you, Humphrey. You see, I am honest with you, too much as your offer dazzles me." And she shook her head again. "That," exclaimed Mr. Crewe, impatiently, "is sheer nonsense.
I am fain to believe that they can procure with it whatever they most desire, and yet that it cankers their hearts and dazzles their eyes; that it is their nature and their duty to gather it; and yet that, when once gathered, the best thing they can do is to scatter it!" The next morning, when he awoke, the old man was gone. He had taken with him the golden cup.
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