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There he goes again. BLOOM: The stye I dislike. Argumentum ad feminam, as we said in old Rome and ancient Greece in the consulship of Diplodocus and Ichthyosauros. For the rest Eve's sovereign remedy. Not for sale. Hire only. Huguenot. I presume you shall have remembered what I will have taught you on that head? Wheatenmeal with honey and nutmeg. This searching ordeal.
Moved by an impulse he made no effort to dissect, he stepped back to Eve's side and slipped his arm through hers successfully concealing his left hand. The warmth of her skin through her long glove thrilled him unexpectedly. His impulse had been one of self-defence, but the result was of a different character.
It was a picture of Eve's temptation; and he recollected her saying that Eve was a good woman, and she'd have done just so, if she'd been there. A very sad child, very sad; bad from infancy. He had talked himself bold, and said all at once, "Doctor, do you know I am almost ready to accept your doctrine of the congenital sinfulness of human nature?
"That they do, sir," put in Captain Truck; "and it was never my good fortune to have a more agreeable set of passengers. Mr. Effingham, the Honourable Captain Ducie; the Honourable Captain Ducie, Mr. Effingham; Mr. John Effingham, Mam'selle V.A.V." endeavouring always to imitate Eve's pronunciation of the name; "Mr. Dodge, the Honourable Captain Ducie; the Honourable Captain Ducie, Mr. Dodge."
The bliss referred to was Georges' approaching marriage with Eve's daughter Anna, which was celebrated very unostentatiously at Wiesbaden in October, owing to the recent death of the Count's father. Balzac went to the wedding, and stayed with the family for four days.
Eve's heart had been pretty well schooled out of her, and yet, before dinner came to an end, she found herself wishing that among the high bidders might be one very young, like the man at her side, with eyes as honest, and who, to express admiration, beat about no bushes. Later, when they said good-by, Fitz said: "It would be good for me to see you to-morrow."
When Susan was in trouble the child was a tender little angel to her. Lord! what a pure little heart it was!" "As pure as young Eve's in the Garden of Eden as pure as young Eve's," murmured Baird. "Just that!" said Miss Amory, rather sharply. "How do you know it?" And she turned and looked at him. "You have heard her brother say a good deal of her." "Yes, yes," Baird answered.
Whereupon he threw down his knife and fork and made for the door, exclaiming "What a dreadful fuss about a little bit of pork." Eve's transgression, according to the learned Lightfoot, occurred "about high noone, the time of eating." The same authority informs us that she and Adam "did lie comfortlesse, till towards the cool of the day, or three o'clock afternoon."
He probably disliked the boy all the more for it, because one day he would be his brother, and he knew that Elia came before all else in the world in Eve's thoughts. His jealousy and hatred were well blended, and, in a man of his mind, this was a dangerous combination. He released his hold on his captive and looked at his bleeding arm.
They were wholly under his dominion, and their food they took out of his hand and out of Eve's. In all respects, the animal world had a different relation to Adam from their relation to his descendants. Not only did they know the language of man, but they respected the image of God, and they feared the first human couple, all of which changed into the opposite after the fall of man.
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