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Our guides who are chosen by the Philistines and who have to look to their favour, tell the Philistines how "all the world knows that the great middle-class of this country supplies the mind, the will, and the power requisite for all the great and good things that have to be done," and congratulate them on their "earnest good sense, which penetrates through sophisms, ignores commonplaces, and gives to conventional illusions their true value."
But the woman had suddenly drawn away from his embrace. She could stand no more of her little husband's pathetic hopes. She knew. She knew, with the rest of the camp, the hopelessness of his quest, and even in her worst moments she had not the heart to destroy his illusions. It was no good, the hopelessness of it all came more than ever upon her.
Not that their youth or health or beauty waned; not at all; but that their illusions were fading. Yet, as often happens, as love cooled, jealousy warmed to life each one conscious of indifference toward the other, yet resented a corresponding indifference in the other.
Madame Olenska's own dwelling was redeemed from the same appearance only by a little more paint about the window-frames; and as Archer mustered its modest front he said to himself that the Polish Count must have robbed her of her fortune as well as of her illusions. The young man had spent an unsatisfactory day.
"Come on," said Dick; "I'm not going to wait for him. He may have gone to fetch up the night lines" they sometimes put down night lines in the lagoon "and fallen asleep over them." Now, though Emmeline honoured Mr Button as a minor deity, Dick had no illusions at all upon the matter.
He said it in all good faith as though war were a duel in which the traitor was henceforth ruled out and unable to continue his outrages. Besides, the heroic resistance of Belgium was nourishing the most absurd illusions in his heart.
But even these sportive imitations, wrought by man in emulation of what time has done to temples and palaces, are perhaps centuries old, and, beginning as illusions, have grown to be venerable in sober earnest.
But the "illusions" with which the young man confronts the world at the beginning of his career are as everlasting as God's word: "Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one little shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." The "illusions" of the young man of the young American particularly are the manifestations of that law, the eternal law of the eternal verities.
She had no illusions in the matter. Not one of them would forgive her not even Mrs. Hartley for her treatment of Brooke Dalton, for her independent action since she left Italy, and for her association with Alan Walcott. As for that it was true that she had not yet gone too far.
"Really now, that's very funny!" "I did not find it funny, uncle. I suffered bitterly, I assure you." "I dare say, I dare say. The illusions you spoke of anyhow, it's all over now?" "Quite over." "Well, that being the case, Fabien, I am ready to help you. Confess frankly to me. How much is required?" "How much?" "Yes, you want something, I dare say, to close the incident.
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