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Through their roots the small trickle of the spring percolated, stealing its way to the parched sands outside. It made a continuous murmuring, as if nature was lifting a voice of low, insistent protest against the desecration of her peace. The man standing with stilled breath and rigid muscles listened for other sounds.
The poet may devote his genius to animalism, like Byron, or to teach immoral license, like Swinburne; the painter may crowd his canvas with degrading ideas and vulgar representations, and the artificer may be ingenious in the production of forms of ugliness and degrading grotesqueness. Such desecration of great endowments is alike displeasing to God and ruinous to the man.
He said he had to think of his public, which would resent this hideous desecration. He thought up a bully way to get out of it.
Adkin's thoughts flowed on again in the old channel, and when full consciousness came, he found himself busy with questions of profit and loss. Self-accusation and humiliation followed. He "wrote bitter things against himself," for this involuntary desecration of the Sabbath.
"Yes; and she is supplied with a huge apron full of what do you think?" "Indulgences?" said Ralph. "No, sir!" "What then?" "Potatoes again." "Potatoes! Sheeley with her apron full of " "Excellent Irish potatoes." "Would anybody have imagined such a desecration!" "They do it, sir; and having thus laughed at the Irish, the Dutch go parading through the streets; and in consequence " "The Irish ?"
But is it not more than that, when on every occasion I must feel it a fresh desecration to tell you everything about Edward, just as it happened? To be sure you have done nothing, have not even said anything aloud; but I know and see very well how you think about it.
"Don't you care a bit whether your friends get married or not?" "Not a bit," said I. Barbara lifted the Macan's Firdusi, still suffering the desecration of the forgotten cage of white mice, onto my manuscript and hoisted herself on the cleared corner of the table. "Doria is my dearest friend. She did my sums for me at school, although I was three years older.
This business occupied several hours. Nilus, who wrote while Orion dictated, giving the document a legal form, was deeply touched by the young man's fore thought and kindness; for in truth, since his desecration of the judgment-seat, he had given him up for a lost soul.
Neither the high social position of parties nor sex was any barrier to this desecration of graves, and the public mind was often shocked by accounts of the young and beautiful being disinterred, to be cut up by medical students. In the city there was, a few years ago and perhaps there is now a regular commercial price for bodies.
If he were not now to return to his home, people would say that he had run away in order to evade his creditors, and such talk concerning a man of piety would have been desecration of the Divine Name.
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