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"I do indeed," he replied, "since it is a certain proof that the world does not understand you. To achieve something that is above human comprehension, THAT is greatness. To have the serene sublimity of the God-man Christ, and consent to be crucified by a gibing world that was fated to be afterwards civilized and dominated by His teachings, what can be more glorious?
That as much as anything has driven our genteel bluebirds away from our homes into the woods and other out-of-the-way places. How would you feel, my friend, if, as you were going along the street, a lot of hoodlums should take to gibing and hooting at you? Were there ever such pesky, ill-mannered citizens as the English sparrows?
Is it strange, therefore, that in this challenge flung at me with such insistence, a business that at first I disliked grew presently to beckon me with its novelty and its promise of new sensations? "Is your spirit dead, Monsieur de Bardelys?" Chatellerault was gibing, when my silence had endured some moments. "Is the cock that lately crowed so lustily now dumb?
This man cheated, and you won my money. You must pay or fight." "With a dead man?" St. Germain replied, gibing at him. "No, with me." "Barradas will spit you!" The other scoffed. "Go and order your coffin, and do not trouble me." "I shall trouble you. If you did not know that he cheated, pay; and if you did know, fight." "I know?" St. Germain retorted fiercely. "You madman!
Some years ago Francis Wilson made a mock complaint to the effect that whenever he met Eugene Field in the "Saints and Sinners Corner" for a half-hour's chat, any good thing he might voice was duly printed next day in the "Sharps and Flats" column as Field's very own, and thus did the genial Eugene acquire his reputation as a genius. All of which gentle gibing contains more fact than fiction.
Then shall we see if she can work miracles or not," and so he went on gibing, while they grinned horribly upon me. Never saw I so many vile faces of the basest people come together, from their filthy dens in Paris.
Standing there, still reading and re-reading those gibing words, she asked herself dully if ever peace could return to her the thoughtless, happy peace of her childhood that she had valued so lightly the careless security of a mind at rest. Had it gone from her for ever? Was that also buried among the rocks at Valpré? She wondered she wondered!
He spoke a good deal, and never without a taunt. "Whig" was the best name he had to give me. "Here," he would say, "here's a dub for ye to jump, my Whiggie! I ken you're a fine jumper!" And so on; all the time with a gibing voice and face. I knew it was my own doing, and no one else's; but I was too miserable to repent.
It's not my fancy to give him up. I wouldn't turn out a badger to you, let alone a man." You see, he took the high moral ground now. "Then we'll have him out in spite of yez," two or three voices cried out together. "Try it," Ralph said. "Meantime I am going to dine; good-night." A voice that had not spoken yet was heard, with a shrill, gibing accent.
We are tearing at each other's throats; it has got to be done. It is not a time for yelping. Jack Johnson as a boxer I respect. The thing I do not like about him is his habit of gibing and jeering at his opponent while he is fighting him. It isn't gentlemanly, and it isn't sporting. The soldiers are fighting in grim silence.
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