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The voyage home was a favourable one and in the course of it Columbus wrote the following letter to a friend of his at Court, Dona Juana de la Torre, who had been nurse to Prince Juan and was known by him to be a favourite of the Queen: "MOST VIRTUOUS LADY, Though my complaint of the world is new, its habit of ill-using is very ancient.
'Oh, Captain Broughton, how should we ever manage to live without you? 'Very well, he said; 'up to the end of this walk I can bear it all; and one word spoken then will mend it all. During the whole of this time she felt that she was ill-using him.
You, the only creature in the world that I should not enjoy ill-using, because every one else ill-uses you already without my help! Drink, I say, or I'll turn you pea-green from head to foot! The negress put the cup to her lips, and contrived, for her own reasons, to spill the contents unobserved.
They had bought him with their own pocket-money from a tinker who was ill-using him, and then claimed for him the hospitality of their parents; so, though Atherley often spoke of the dog as a disgrace to the household, he remained a member thereof, and received, from a family incapable of being uncivil, far less unkind, to an animal, as much attention as if he had been high-bred and beautiful which indeed he plainly supposed himself to be.
Slaves were such through political and social causes, and their masters were bidden to refrain from ill-using them, not only because of the cruelty of such conduct, but because of "the natural law common to all men," and because "he is of the same nature as thyself." Seneca denounced the gladiatorial shows as human butcheries.
Now keep quiet, and tell it all out like a man." To think I was telling lies to my own child! for I did it only to humor him, thinking, poor little fellow, his brain was wrong. "Yes, father. Father, there is some one in the park some one that has been badly used." "Hush, my dear; you remember there is to be no excitement. Well, who is this somebody, and who has been ill-using him?
She was devotedly attached to Maidie, rather despising and ill-using her sister Isabella, a beautiful and gentle child. This partiality made Maidie apt at times to domineer over Isabella. "I mention this," writes her surviving sister, "for the purpose of telling you an instance of Maidie's generous justice.
Her heart seemed to stand still. "How has the world used you since we met last?" she tried to say neutrally. "Better, I fear, than I have used it," he answered quietly. "I do not quite see. How could you ill-use the world?" There was faint irony in her voice now. A change seemed to have come upon her. "By ill-using any one person we ill-use society the world" he meaningly replied.
For if you wished to illtreat an animal, it would be quite easy, even more easy, to suppose that an enemy or a murderer inhabited the body of the animal, and that you were but carrying out the decrees of fate by ill-using it.
The staple of conversation with them both was the neighbours, accidents that had occurred in the public thoroughfares, cases of coachmen ill-using their horses, the troubles and trials of life and the ways of Providence, "which are not always just." Jean happened to be present at one of these colloquies.
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