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Updated: May 16, 2025
Not only because they were old-fashioned some of the most old-fashioned people on earth are in San Francisco but because it would mean separation from their idol. They surrounded her like a flaming belt, not even a man could get at her. They worshipped her as if she was a being of another world, devoured her; all the treasures of life were centred in her.
The image of that handsome idol of love clasped in the painter's arms, plunged in the abyss of intoxication which her ardent letters described, was presented to the mind of the jealous wife. What irony to perceive thus those two lovers, whom she had wished to strike, with the ecstacy of bliss in their eyes!
De Wardes looked round him, to see if he could find support from any one; but, at the idea that De Wardes had insulted, either directly or indirectly, the idol of the day, every one shook his head; and De Wardes saw that he was in the wrong.
This god appeared on a second night and told him that if the king would make an idol of a certain wood growing near she would breathe power into it, and would make the gambler her priest. So the king ordered a tree to be cut. As the chips flew into the faces of the choppers they fell dead.
It required extraordinary circumstances to awaken a proper sense of her situation, and to stimulate the better feelings of this beautiful, but misguided girl, and those circumstances had not yet occurred in her brief existence. "Elephant, or no elephant, 'tis an idol," returned the hunter, "and not fit to remain in Christian keeping."
He concludes his letter with an old song, beginning, "Fol de dol, dol de dol, di dol, I'll never make money my idol." In the New Hampshire of 1805 there was no such thing possible as leaping at once into a lucrative practice, nor even of slowly acquiring it.
"Ay!" he cried, exultantly, for he seemed always exultant when he spoke of her Grace, who was plainly his idol.
The arch-idolater who made idols of his own rebuked Pombo in the name of Man for having broken his idols "for hath not Man made them?" the arch-idolater said; and concerning the idols themselves he spoke long and learnedly, explaining divine etiquette, and how Pombo had offended, and how no idol in the world would listen to Pombo's prayer.
Shenston, in his 'Plea for the Seventh-day, charges those who keep the Lord's day 'that they yield to the tide keep their friends riches comforts; they believe that the seventh-day is the sabbath, and would greatly prefer keeping it, if the rulers of the nation would alter the day; they imagine that their God is some dumb idol!+ Language most unseemly and insulting charging all who observe the Lord's day with being hypocrites and the worst of fools.
I could not, upon my honor, see that there was any place for me, and I went my own way, not that there was much comfort in it. And then I would rather have had charge of a hospital ward than take care of that uncle. Such coddling as he needed, such humoring of whims. And I am bound to say that Polly could n't have been more dutiful to him if he had been a Hindoo idol.
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