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All hunchbacks walk with their heads held high, all stutterers harangue, all deaf people speak low. As for him, he believed, at the most, that his ear was a little refractory. It was the sole concession which he made on this point to public opinion, in his moments of frankness and examination of his conscience.
But there were no lepers, there were no hunchbacks; there were only Zia and the light. He knelt and turned himself toward the cave and prayed, and as he so knelt and prayed the man Joseph rolled open the heavy wooden door. Then Zia, still kneeling, beat himself softly upon the breast and prayed again, not as before to Jehovah, but to that which he beheld.
He was probably the one really efficient person in the house. After about four days of the informal council, March had come to feel a sort of grotesque sublimity about these dubious figures, defiant in the twilight of danger, as if they were hunchbacks and cripples left alone to defend a town.
Suppose, then, we intensify ugliness to the point of deformity, and study the transition from the deformed to the ridiculous. Now, certain deformities undoubtedly possess over others the sorry privilege of causing some persons to laugh; some hunchbacks, for instance, will excite laughter.
Was it possible that she, with her sovereign beauty, that beauty which she herself had ever adored and nursed, making it her one care, her one religion was it possible that she had given birth to such a graceless creature, with a dark, goatish profile, one shoulder higher than the other, and a pair of endless arms such as hunchbacks often have?
Philip, being a melancholy man, had his court full of jesters, poor misshapen creatures dwarfs and hunchbacks who were supposed to appear "funny," and Velasquez, as court painter, painted those whom he continually saw about him, who formed the court family.
"And so," rejoined Helen, "because they are unhappy already, you would heap unhappiness upon them?" "Now, Helen, you must not be unfair to me any more than to your hunchbacks. It is the good of the many I seek, and surely that is better than the good of the few." "What I object to is, that it should be at the expense of the few who are least able to bear it."
That's not religion it's being irreligious. Good gracious, think of the cripples and lepers and hunchbacks!" "And the idea is that God made them all by way of entertaining himself?" he put it to her quietly. "Well, who else did?" said Feather cheerfully. "I don't know," he said. "Certain things I heard Mrs. Muir say suggested to one that it might be interesting to think it out."
"A beautiful woman may feel as distrustful as the ugliest," said Butscha, as if speaking to himself; "Modeste is clever enough to fear she may be loved only for her beauty." Hunchbacks are extraordinary creations, due entirely to society for, according to Nature's plan, feeble or aborted beings ought to perish.
There was no lock to the other door either, and I went out into the garden. There were a few winter vegetables in the beds still, and the fruit trees were all in flower. Most of them were very old. Some of them looked like hunchbacks, and their branches bent towards the ground, as though they found that even the flowers were too heavy for them to carry.
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