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He ill-uses the French, who are willing to die for him; he turns a deaf ear to the liberal counsels of Napoleon III.; he designedly prolongs the exile of his master; he draws up the promises of the Motu Proprio, while devising means to elude them.
"It must be very terrible to be thus ashamed of oneself, to have that longing for kisses which console the most wretched in their misery, which satisfy hunger and thirst, and assuage pain; that illusion of delicious, intoxicating kisses, the delight and the balm of which such a person can never know; the horror of that dishonor of being pointed at, made fun of, driven away like unclean creatures that prostitute their sex, and make love vile by unmentionable rites; oh! the constant bitterness of seeing that the person we love makes fun of us, ill-uses us, and does not show us even the slightest friendship!"
"'Any person subject to military law," read Hamilton impressively, "'who strikes or ill-uses his superior officer shall, if an officer, suffer death or such less punishment as in this Act mentioned. Which means," said Hamilton, wisely, "that if you and I are in action and you call me a liar, and I give you a whack on the jaw "
'You forget yourself! Here you have another proof that I count for nothing in this house, nothing! 'Anna Vassilyevna ill-uses you... poor fellow! said Shubin, stretching. 'Ah, Nikolai Artemyevitch, we're a pair of sinners!
He ill-uses this female most shockingly not for any cause or motive whatever; indeed, his own practical interests should prompt him to treat her well and keep friends with her but from the natural cussedness to which we have just alluded. When he speaks to her he seizes her by the wrist and breathes what he's got to say into her ear, and it tickles and revolts her.
Picotee recovered from the snubbing which she felt that she deserved, and charged gallantly by saying, with delicate showings of indifference, 'Do you love this Mr. What's-his-name of yours? 'Mr. Julian? O, he's a very gentlemanly man. That is, except when he is rude, and ill-uses me, and will not come and apologize! 'If I had him a lover, I would ask him to come if I wanted him to.
"You speak very affectionately of your husband," observed Holberg, "and yet the people say that he ill-uses you every day." "That's no one's business but mine," she replied. "The blows might have done me good when I was a child; now, I suppose, I get them for my sins. But I know what good he has done me," and she rose up.
They were full of old-fashioned compliments and good wishes; one speech of theirs came up to her memory in future years: 'Now, Sylvia Hepburn, said Jeremiah, 'I've known thy husband long, and I don't say but what thou hast done well in choosing him; but if he ever neglects or ill-uses thee, come to me, and I'll give him a sound lecture on his conduct.
"Is this real?" said she. "I will sail with you to-morrow, Phoebe; and I will make you a good husband, if you will have me." "That is spoke like a man," said Dick. "You take him at his word, Phoebe; and if he ill-uses you out there, I'll break every bone in his skin." "How dare you threaten him?" said Phoebe. "You had best leave the room."
The man learns to hate the woman who has caused them, and ill-uses her, and feels himself to be a Cain upon the earth, condemned by all, but by none so much as by himself. Do you think that you have strength to bear the contempt of all those around you?" Anton waited a moment or two before he answered, and then spoke very slowly.
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