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It turned preponderantly to commercial and economic aims. A secular view of the purpose of God in history began to prevail in all classes of society. The Grand Monarque was ready to proclaim the divine right of the State which was himself. Still, not until the period of his dotage did that claim bear any relation to what even he would have called religion.
When his will was opened, the astonishment and dismay of his relations may be! easily imagined, as well as the bitterness of their disappointment. The bequeathal of the bulk of his property to a stranger, who I could urge no claim of consanguinity upon him, absolutely astonished them; and their resentment at his caprice or rather what they termed his dotage was not only deep, but loud.
He shook his head in mock melancholy over his supposed intellectual dotage. Unorna turned away, this time with the determination to leave him. "I am sorry if I have offended you," he said, very meekly. "Was what I said so very unpardonable?"
They looked as if they had never known what youth or pleasure was, but had been the offspring of Nature's dotage, and always the gray, decrepit, sapless, miserable creatures, who now sat stooping round the doctor's table, without life enough in their souls or bodies to be animated even by the prospect of growing young again. They drank off the water, and replaced their glasses on the table.
"That's all you get " Roy was beginning, when Mollie interrupted him, speaking dreamily. "Wasn't he a funny old man, Roy?" she said "the one who sold us the candies, I mean." "Yes, I guess he must have been in his dotage," Roy agreed. "In five minutes he told us all his life's history and then some."
The young man thought that the older was in his dotage, and waited in bewilderment without venturing to reply. "Turn round," said the merchant, suddenly catching up the lamp in order to light up the opposite wall; "look at that leathern skin," he went on. The young man rose abruptly, and showed some surprise at the sight of a piece of shagreen which hung on the wall behind his chair.
"Ah, Will! dear Will, do not think lightly of me," she said. "My father " "Is as all of them have been since Father Adam's dotage," I ended; "and therefore is keeping fools and honest horses from their rest." My cousin said, angrily, "You have been spying!" "Because I know that there are horses yonder?" said I. "And fools here and everywhere?
There is no need to do more than suggest that those who were young when Shakespeare, or when Byron, died, would not have been exactly in their dotage if, forty years later, they had extolled the literature of their nonage.
It was a consolation to him, while his adversaries were breaking Priscian's head as fast as the Duke, their master, was breaking his oaths, that his own syntax was as clear as his conscience. The feeblest commissioner was James-a-Croft, who had already exhibited himself with very anile characteristics, and whose subsequent manifestations were to seem like dotage.
"I know more than I want to know, Betty. Joseph has bought the Warren lots, and that means he's got 'em for his own price. Old man Warren is in his dotage and these lots have been surveyed and cut up into building plots on the stone road over t'other side of Laurel Grove where the trolley's coming through this spring. Joseph will probably sell 'em for three times what he's paid for 'em.
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