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It was the strangest attempt ever made to gibe and flout a wandering sheep back into the fold. Robert's resentment was roused at last. The squire's temper seemed to him totally inexplicable, his arguments contradictory, the conversation useless and irritating. He got up to take his leave. 'What you are about to do, Elsmere, the squire wound up with saturnine emphasis, 'is a piece of cowardice!
But he won't need shoes this winter; he's better off without 'em. If a bunglin' mechanic over thar will leave his feet alone he'll be all right till spring." Landy regarded the gibe as irrelevant. The saddle invited. Once aboard and before they reached the Ranty he was detailing answers to some of Davy's questions.
'Ay, ay, I used to think; 'gibe awa, gibe awa; but I hae a freend in my breist that'll end it some day. I likit to keep it to mysell. When it bit me it seemed to whisper I had a freend that nane o' them kenned o' a freend that would deliver me! The mair he badgered me, the closer I hugged it; and when my he'rt was br'akin I enjoyed the pain o't."
When he wished them to enjoy some gross British satire or clumsy German gibe at Bonaparte's expense, and put his face close to begin the laugh, he was something so terrible that March left the place with a profound if not a reasoned regret that the French had not won the battle of Leipsic.
His nephew at that stepped in, and, with a little disdainful laugh at me, made some galling gibe at my 'distinguished learning. I might have known better than to let it pique me, but I spoke up again, though respectfully enough, that I was not wrong. It appeared to me all at once as if some principle were at stake, as if I were the champion of our Shakespeare; so will vanity delude us.
It is not the incredibleness of a metaphysical belief, but a laxity or cowardice of the practice connected with it, which can point the reformer's gibe and wing his sarcasm. Theodore Parker virtually told the Christian minister that he must reprove profitable and popular sins, or else stand at great disadvantage in the trial between Rationalism and Supernaturalism which is vexing the age.
Hard on the cow, I think. Of course no such mishap could happen to such a superior person as yourself," he added, chuckling. I sat somewhat uneasy under this dry gibe. Indeed, his manner of treating this latter part of the question seemed to me a little disrespectful.
"We never was in where it was right warm, since I can remember," said Al. "Except when we made it warm ourselves." "Sam Pretty Cow was saying yesterday " and Duke repeated a bit of gossip that had a gibe at the Lorrigans for its point. "He got it over to Hitchcocks. It come from the Douglases. I guess Mary Hope don't want nothing of us except what she can get out of us.
'So I will, so I command. Let my will suffice for a reason, was what he meant. He had written his gibe, and not all the Jews in Jewry should make him change. Possibly the Evangelist had some thought of that sort in recording this saying; but, at all events, I venture to take a liberty with it which I should not do if it were a word of God's, or if it were given for our instruction.
He was a slow-witted man, and he could devise no ready answer, no such cutting gibe as it would have pleasured him to administer. He walked leisurely to the fire-place, and leant his elbow on the overmantel. "Your humour led you into saying some things for which I should be merciful if I had you whipped."
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