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Updated: May 26, 2025
Some seer of genius perceives in a flash the essential likeness of things hitherto kept apart in men's minds the impulse which leads to anger with one's brother, and that which leads to murder, the charity of the widow's mite and of the rich man's gold, the intemperance of the debauchee and of the party leader. But when the master dies the vision too often dies with him.
The janitor had no sooner obeyed his instructions, than in rushed a young libertine, who had been for some time upon the town, together with his tutor, who was a worn-out debauchee, well known to the magician.
He was desperate now. "What would your saintly, crop-eared friends say if they knew as much of your past history as I do?" "Tis a matter for conjecture," said Hogan, humouring him. "How think you would they welcome the story of the roystering rake and debauchee who deserted the army of King Charles because they were about to hang him for murder?" "Ah! how, indeed?" sighed Hogan.
Rochester, in the full tide of dissipation, glories in his sensuality, and writes the "Maimed Debauchee." But Hervey represents the time when dissipation had run a long course, and disgust, sanctity, and misanthropy were succeeding.
A man entered, with something the manners of a gentleman, and more those of a rakebelly debauchee his eyes swelled and inflamed his gait disordered and stumbling, partly through lack of sleep, partly through the means he had taken to support his fatigue.
How singular are the monstrosities of experience! At the head of the council of finance, a place was found for the Duke of Noailles, active in mind and restless in character, without any fixed principles, an adroit and a shameless courtier, strict in all religious observances under Louis XIV., and a notorious debauchee under the Regency, but intelligent, insolent, ambitious, hungering and thirsting to do good if he could, but evil if need were, and in order to arrive at his ends.
For his life Count Victor could make no reply, so troubled was his mind with warring thoughts of Olivia betrayed, perhaps, to a debauchee sans heart and common pot-house decency; of whether in truth this was the debauchee to such depths as he suggested, or a man in a false position through the stress of things around him. The Chamberlain went on as in a meditation. "Poor Kate! poor Kate!
"My lord," he replied, disregarding the rebuke he had received, "for Heaven's sake conceal that disgraceful fact. Remember, I am a young nobleman; call me profligate spendthrift debauchee anything you will but an Irishman. Don't the Irish refuse beef and mutton, and take to eating each other?
Love, for them, is another thing; it is to go out veiled, to write in secret, to make trembling advances, to heave chaste sighs under a starched and unnatural robe, then to draw bolts and throw it aside, to humiliate a rival, to deceive a husband, to render a lover desolate; to love, for our women, is to play at lying, as children play at hide and seek, the hideous debauchee of a heart, worse than all the lubricity of the Romans, or the Saturnalia of Priapus; bastard parody of vice itself as well as of virtue; loathsome comedy where all is whispering and oblique glances, where all is small, elegant and deformed like the porcelain monsters brought from China; lamentable derision of all that is beautiful and ugly, divine and infernal; a shadow without a body, a skeleton of all that God has made."
Some elation his shallow nature felt at realizing this, but that elation was short-lived, and dashed by the thought that this ruler, this debauchee, this drunken, swearing, roaring tavern knight was his father; dashed by the knowledge that meanwhile the Parliament was master, and that whilst matters stood so, the Ashburns could defy could even destroy him, did they learn how much he knew; dashed by the memory that Cynthia, whom in his selfish way out of his love for himself he loved, vas lost to him for all time.
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