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For, in truth, if only we loved in humbleness of spirit and forgetfulness of self, or merely with a simple heart, we should be content with what is vouchsafed us and should not straightway cry treason when some slight is put on us.

'If Endymion serves me for a pioneer, perhaps I ought to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths; and I have, I am sure, many friends who if I fail will attribute any change in my life to humbleness rather than pride, to a cowering under the wings of great poets rather than to bitterness that I am not appreciated. And for evidence of any especial bitterness because of the lashing he received one will search the letters in vain.

An artistic eye or an eye that discriminates in and responds to feminine loveliness would have been captivated, as it searched in vain for flaw. If Norman anticipated that she would be nervous before the task of receiving in her humbleness so distinguished a visitor, he must have been straightway disappointed.

It is only because we are not yet wise enough that this indifference seems strange; for the first duty of wisdom is to throw into light the humbleness of the place in the universe that is filled by man.

Her figure is never slender enough, nor her carriage sufficiently erect to satisfy. But the "frump" will let herself and all her surroundings go to seed, not from humbleness of mind or an overwhelming sense of her own unworthiness, but in pure complacent conceit.

Wherever I turned, it was there, His eyes wet with pity, His countenance shining with love. Whence came He? What did He in that place, where love is not, where pity comes not? 'Friend, she cried, 'to seek you there! Her companion bowed his head in deep humbleness and joy. And again he lifted his great voice and intoned his song of praise.

I would address My spirit to this theme in humbleness No tongue nor pen hath uttered or made known This mystery, and thus I do but guess At clearer types through lowlier patterns shown; Yet when did Love on earth forsake its own?

Neighbours' gossip I find pretty well the worst thing a man has to bear, who's unfortunate enough to own children." The farmer bowed his head with that bitter humbleness which characterized his reception of the dealings of Providence toward him. "My neighbours 'll soon be none at all," he said. "Let 'em talk. I'm not abusing you, Mr. Blancove.

Sore and desolate was my heart; but with infinite gratitude to the great controller of all events, I recognised in it a change which nothing but the spirit of all good can effect. The love and fear of God had grown strong within me in humbleness I bowed to his awful will with a sincere trust I relied upon the goodness, the wisdom, and the mercy of him who had sent this great affliction.

I mean what I say." She looked as if she did. Cousin Percy evidently thought so. His humbleness disappeared. "So?" he snarled angrily. "So that's it, eh? What do you think I am?" Gertrude's eyes flashed. She bit her lip. When she spoke it was with deliberate distinctness. Every word was as sharp and cold as an icicle. "Do you wish to know what I think you are?" she asked.