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Cannot you tell them this, and make them see?" The old man shook his white head. "They would never believe. It is too hard for them. Where the river runs, there it will always be. So they think." "They are dolts, they are mules, they are swine!" said Adone. "Nay, may the poor beasts forgive me! The beasts cannot help themselves, but men can if they choose." "Humph!" said Trizio doubtfully.
Why, then, should the people have been expected to prepare for a catastrophe from fog, such as there had never been any experience of in the world's history? The people of London were far from being the sluggish dolts present-day writers would have us believe.
"A vast concourse of people assembled before the river when he embarked on the 'Natchez' for St. Louis." Muttering something about "bourgeoisie! épicier!" the nobleman partook of the liquid consolation before him, which seemed to brighten his spirits. "If my doctors could see me now! Dolts! Quacks!" "It's a good joke on them," said Mauville, ironically. "Isn't it?
This goes too deep," and he had almost taken her hand, when with a start she drew it back, saying, "But you know what they say!" "Have they been stupid enough to tell you?" he exclaimed. "Confute them then, Rachel dolts that can't believe in self-devotion! Laugh at their beards. This is the way to put an end to it!" "Oh no, they would only detest you for my sake.
She could not get the languor out of her voice. "When people listen to music it always reminds me we are descended from fish. God, what dolts! Minds like soft-bodied sea growths. I can actually see them sometimes." "You always dislike my friends." She would argue with him, and in his anger his strangeness would go away. "Your friends?" He seemed pleased at the chance of growing angry.
Then for a moment he listened while Maurice railed against the government, against the army, raking up old sores and recalling all their sufferings, telling how at last they were going to be masters, punish dolts and cowards and preserve the Republic.
"The most gross and senseless proud dolts are the Danes, who stand so much upon their unwieldy burly-boned soldiery, that they account of no man that hath not a battle-axe at his girdle to hough dogs with, or wears not a cock's feather in a thrummed hat like a cavalier. Briefly, he is the best fool braggart under heaven.
"And we are such dolts! such asses! such brute beasts! such stocks! such stones! that here we go on from day to day, enjoying the life he gives us, eating the bread and meat he gives us, drinking his good refreshments, resting upon his warm beds, and so on.... Every day, and every day, and every day and who among us, I, most especially for one, ever thinks, except may be by scuttling through a few rigmarole words ever thinks, I say, of thanking Him for it of lifting up a warm, honest heart, of true real thanking, I mean?
In looking about us, we often see men of success and reputation, who are simply dolts, without any merit except their perfect insignificance. That stupid propriety which offends no one, that uniform politeness which shocks no one's vanity, have peculiarly the gift of pleasing and of succeeding.
Shall I take from their hands wages for those administrations, which their deliberately formed opinions will not allow them to accept from my hands? And yet, though he thus pleaded against himself, he knew that the two men of whom he was speaking were thick-headed dolts who were always tipsy on Saturday nights, and who came to church perhaps once in three weeks.
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