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It instantly provokes the offended person to enquire 'What kind of being is it, that takes upon him to brave, insult, and despise me? Has he more strength, more activity, more understanding than myself? In numerous instances, he is imbecile in body, more imbecile still in mind, and contemptible in person. Nay he is often little better than a driveller.
The old woman was "Driveller" Juan's mother. People had told Juan's mother that the only obstacle to her son's salvation from death was Caesar, and she had come to implore him not to let them condemn Juan to death. "My poor son is a good boy," moaned the old creature; "a woman made him commit the crime." Caesar listened, silent and gloomy, without speaking, and then left the room.
Julian on the floor: but I took the young lady to Sir Abraham's immediately, general, at her own desire." The father arose sternly; his first feeling was to kill Julian; but the second, a far better one, predominated he must go and see Emily at once. "Kind neighbour, thank you, thank you; where's Emmy? take me to my Emmy;" and the iron-hearted veteran wept like a driveller.
'But, Hatteraick, my good friend, do but rise and speak to me, said Glossin. 'I will not! answered the savage, doggedly. 'You have caused all the mischief; you would not let Meg keep the boy; she would have returned him after he had forgot all. 'Why, Hatteraick, you are turned driveller!
"From Marlborough's eyes the tears of dotage flow, And Swift expire, a driveller and a show." If you deal with Napoleon, for instance, it is perfectly clear that he must dominate the stage. As soon as you bring in the name, the idea, of Napoleon Bonaparte, men have eyes and ears for nothing else; and they demand to see him, in a general way, acting up to their general conception of him.
When Maimoune ceased laughing, she cried, Good, good, very good; you would have me then believe all that you have told me: I thought you designed to entertain me with something surprising and extraordinary, and you have been talking all this while like a driveller! Ah! fie, fie!
"Driveller" Juan was tall, red-headed, with high cheek bones, knotty hands, and a pendulous lip; his father, like him, had been bony and strong, and for that reason had been called "Big Bones."
"You jest pleasantly enough on your low spirits," said Clifford; "but I have a cause for mine." "What then?" cried Tomlinson. "So much the easier is it to cure them. The mind can cure the evils that spring from the mind. It is only a fool and a quack and a driveller when it professes to heal the evils that spring from the body.
"How should that be?" asked the surly villain. "Well for all that," said the other. "I think we should be down upon the fellow one of these darkmans, and let him get it well." "But old Meg's asleep now," said another; "she grows a driveller, and is afraid of her shadow.
Spenlow told me this day week was Dora's birthday, and he would be glad if I would come down and join a little picnic on the occasion. I went out of my senses immediately; became a mere driveller next day, on receipt of a little lace-edged sheet of note-paper, 'Favoured by papa. To remind'; and passed the intervening period in a state of dotage.
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