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His studies led him to detest war as much as did Lord Aberdeen, and he was the invariable advocate of peace. He was, like Thiers, an aristocrat at heart, although sprung from the middle classes. He was simple in his habits and style of life, and was greater as a philosopher than as a practical statesman amid popular discontents.
"It always makes me feel like a fighting-cock. "Rubbish! You detest the sea-air. It makes you feel like fighting, I grant, but not like a fighting-cock." "There you go, trying to tell me how I feel. I've never known any one like you, Lou. I can't say a word that " "Have you had any news from Maud?" she broke in suspiciously. "Not a word," said he.
Bro and I were studying German together all last summer with Henry, before he left us to become a German, and I believe this is the last of my languages, for I have begun absolutely to detest the sight of a dictionary or grammar, which I never liked except as a means, and love poetry with an intenser love, if that be possible, than I ever did.
You can now ride to the wars when the king's banner is spread to the winds, and do your duty to your country, but there will be no occasion for you to become a mere knight adventurer a class I detest, ever ready to sell their swords to the highest bidder, and to kill men, against whom they have no cause of complaint, as indifferently as a butcher would strike down a bullock with a pole-axe.
I think the Doctor is right. I feel quite a different creature. I would give my life to please him." One day, the King came in very much heated. I withdrew to my post, where I listened. "What is the matter?" said Madame de Pompadour. "The long robes and the clergy," replied he, "are always at drawn daggers, they distract me by their quarrels. But I detest the long robes the most.
"You're a little tease, THAT'S what you are!" "And you're a big tease, that's what YOU are! I've heard you're even fond of practical jokes! Now, I detest practical jokes." "That's an awful pity, for I mean to play one on you the very first chance I get." "You can't do it?" "Why can't I?" "Because I'd discover it, and foil you." "There's no such word as foil in my bright lexicon.
"Oh, God! my father! my dear, dear father!" broke from Constance's lips; "do not speak thus do not I will go to Doctor " "No, child, no! I loathe I detest the thought of help. They denied it me while it was yet time. They left me to starve or to rot in gaol, or to hang myself! They left me like a dog, and like a dog I will die!
"That's a good brother," said Elsie. "Go down and merely tell Tom I have been very sick, and that Bessie has gone to New York anywhere not a word more." "But he will wonder at her absence during your illness." "No, he never wonders; it doesn't make any difference." "I detest these white lies, Elsie."
We find, however, that pleasure suffuses certain states of mind and pain others; which is another way of saying that, for no reason, we love the first and detest the second.
"The long robes and the clergy are always at daggers drawn," he would say to Madame de Pompadour "they drive me distracted with their quarrels, but I detest the long robes by far the most.
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