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I trust you will not falsify your instincts; let me beseech you to follow the career of an artist." "Thank you," returned Stubbs, with a chuckle. "I'm going to be a banker." "No," said Léon, "do not say so. Not that. A man with such a nature as yours should not derogate so far. What are a few privations here and there, so long as you are working for a high and noble goal?"
"For," pursued the President, "by the ancient laws, customs, manners, and observances of the Duchy, no decree or law shall in any way whatsoever impair, alter, lessen, or derogate from the high rights, powers, and prerogatives of Your Highness, whom may Heaven long preserve.
He was perfectly serious and did not add to his words the sort of smile by which servants usually comment on the actions of a superior who seems to them to derogate from his position. "Ah! he was grooming Cora." "Madame la comtesse intends to ride out this morning?" said the footman, leaving the room without further answer.
The Baron resumed his favourite topic 'However it may please you to derogate from the honour of your burgonet, Colonel Talbot, which is doubtless your humour, as I have seen in other gentlemen of birth and honour in your country, I must again repeat it as a most ancient and distinguished bearing, as well as that of my young friend Francis Stanley, which is the eagle and child.
"Will the gallant champions of the cross," she said, "think of leaving their native land, while the wail of women and of orphans is in their ears? it were to convert their pious purpose into mortal sin, and to derogate from the high fame they have so well won.
The best of women." "The best of women, and the best of mothers. But, if you recollect, she was a great Low-Church saint." "Why 'but'? How does that derogate in any wise from her excellence?"
"What! how! prospects! pulled down!" cried Harley. "Yes, to be sure, sir; and the green, where the children used to play, he has ploughed up, because, he said, they hurt his fence on the other side of it." "Curses on his narrow heart," cried Harley, "that could violate a right so sacred! Heaven blast the wretch! "And from his derogate body never spring A babe to honour him!"
The original was well known in the art circles of London at one time, and was probably known to Meredith, but this does not in any way derogate from the splendour of the imaginative achievement of painting in a few touches a Romany girl who must, one would think, live for ever.
What results from all this to a rational man? It will be natural for him to conclude, that neither inconstant gods, nor vacillating priests, whose opinions are more fluctuating than the seasons, can be the proper models of a moral system, which should be as regular, as determinate, as invariable as the laws of nature herself; as that eternal march, from which we never see her derogate. No!
The duke, though old, was his own master; he much affected the company of Madame Goesler, and that lady's kindness to him was considerate and incessant; but there might still be danger, and Lady Glencora felt that she was responsible that the old nobleman should do nothing, in the feebleness of age, to derogate from the splendour of his past life.
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