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"But I know," interrupted the girl, rising so hastily that her roses fell unheeded on the ground "but I know he is a sensible man, his father's right-hand, a man who would disdain to riot all night with flute-playing women, and to woo girls only because they are rich." "I don't do that either," replied Phaon. "Your flowers have dropped on the ground "
If I had been lonely.... I must have caught a certain cheer in the look of the station and in the magnificent, cosmic leisure of the idlers: in Photographer Jimmy Sturgis, in his leather coat, with one eye shut, stamping a foot and waiting for the mail-bag; in old Tillie, known up and down the world for her waffles, and perpetually peering out between shelves of plants and wax fruit set across the window of the "eating-house"; in Peleg Bemus, wood-cutter, stumping about the platform on his wooden leg, wearing modestly the prestige he had won by his flute-playing and by his advantage of New York experience "a janitor in the far east, he was," Timothy Toplady had once told me; in Timothy Toplady himself, who always meets the trains, but for no reason unless to say an amazed and reproachful "Blisterin' Benson! not a soul wants off here"; and in Abel Halsey, that itinerant preacher, of whom Doctor June had spoken.
Did ever any man believe in horsemanship, and not in horses? or in flute-playing, and not in flute-players? No, my friend; I will answer to you and to the court, as you refuse to answer for yourself. There is no man who ever did. But now please to answer the next question: Can a man believe in spiritual and divine agencies, and not in spirits or demigods? He cannot.
The sun would soon reach its meridian height, and there he lay asleep. At first it had startled her to find him here, but she soon felt nothing but indignation, and again the image of the flute-playing women, with whom he must have revelled until thus exhausted, rose before her mind.
He got close to his man, and took his pick of the pelts at fair prices. He expended all of his money, and even bought on credit, for there are men who always have credit. Young Astor found Indian nature to be simply human nature. The savage was a man, and courtesy, gentleness and fairly good flute-playing soothed his savage breast. Astor had beads and blankets, a flute and a smile.
And many a time I wish that he were dead, and yet I know that I should be much more sorry than glad if he were to die; so that I am at my wit's end. "And this is what I and many others have suffered from the flute-playing of this satyr. Yet hear me once more while I show you how exact the image is, and how marvelous his power.
"With a bow from Majesty, dinner ends; guests gently, with a little saunter of talk to some of them, all vanish; and the King is in his own Apartment again. Generally flute-playing for about half an hour; till Eichel and the others come with their day's work: tray-loads of Cabinet-Orders, I can fancy; which are to be 'executed, that is, to be glanced through, and signed.
Just as the raven follows an army to batten on the dead, so that fellow there stalks on in front of strangers in order to empty their pockets and you, who call yourself an interpreter, and in learning Greek have forgotten the little Egyptian you ever knew, mark this: When you have to guide strangers take them to see the Sphinx, or to consult the Apis in the temple of Ptah, or lead them to the king's beast-garden at Alexandria, or the taverns at Hanopus, but don't bring them here, for we are neither pheasants, nor flute-playing women, nor miraculous beasts, who take a pleasure in being stared at.
His Fame His Autobiography Its Value for the Student of History, Manners, and Character, in the Renaissance Birth, Parentage, and Boyhood Flute-playing Apprenticeship to Marcone Wanderjahr The Goldsmith's Trade at Florence Torrigiani and England Cellini leaves Florence for Rome Quarrel with the Guasconti Homicidal Fury Cellini a Law to Himself Three Periods in his Manhood Life in Rome Diego at the Banquet Renaissance Feeling for Physical Beauty Sack of Rome Miracles in Cellini's Life His Affections Murder of his Brother's Assassin Sanctuary Pardon and Absolution Incantation in the Colosseum First Visit to France Adventures on the Way Accused of Stealing Crown Jewels in Rome Imprisonment in the Castle of S. Angelo The Governor Cellini's Escape His Visions The Nature of his Religion Second Visit to France The Wandering Court Le Petit Nesle Cellini in the French Law Courts Scene at Fontainebleau Return to Florence Cosimo de' Medici as a Patron Intrigues of a petty Court Bandinelli The Duchess Statue of Perseus End of Cellini's Life Cellini and Machiavelli.
"But I know," interrupted the girl, rising so hastily that her roses fell unheeded on the ground "but I know he is a sensible man, his father's right-hand, a man who would disdain to riot all night with flute-playing women, and to woo girls only because they are rich." "I don't do that either," replied Phaon. "Your flowers have dropped on the ground "
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