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They have enough sense to see that you are telling them impertinences, and they have not enough to raise themselves toward a religion that is pure and free from superstition, such as ours. Their passions make them believe that there is no religion at all, because the only one that is taught them is ridiculous; you become guilty of all the vices in which they are plunged.
It is an experience of hesitating minds, be they Saxon or others, that when we have submitted our persons to the charge of public companies, immediately, as if the renouncing of our independence into their hands had given us a taste of a will of our own, we are eager for the performance of their contract to do what we are only half inclined to; the train cannot go fast enough to please us, though we could excuse it for breaking down; stoppages at stations are impertinences, and the delivery of us at last on the platform is an astonishment, for it is not we who have done it we have not even desired it.
"He is not an Englishman," said Cornelia. "His father is an Englishman, and the man himself was born in England. The way he looks at me, the way he speaks to me, is insulting." "I have seen nothing but courtesy to you, Rem." "You have not the key to his impertinences. To-morrow, I will tell you something about Lieutenant Hyde." "I shall not permit you to talk evil of him.
Such is the aspiration of our truly socialist types; other distinctions, like valour, energy, virtue, are for the democratic steam-roller, veritable impertinences of nature.
"Accept the fact that his lineage is the highest possible, and that he has better connections than those of anybody else in the whole world, and he will be perfectly contented," said a sharp, splenetic Spaniard in the cardinal's confidence. "'Tis a faithful and loyal cavalier, but full of impertinences."
The French now-a-days do not care for their kings, and <la Fronde> will be renewed at an early day. After all, philosophers believe that Frederick II protects them: the honest man laughs both at them and me." "At you, sire? Impossible." "No, no; I know the impertinences he is guilty of towards me: but let him. I prefer making my court to the pretty women of my kingdom instead of to my pages.
If Liot had been less human, if he had come from a more mixed race, if his feelings had been educated down and toned to the level of modern culture, he could possibly have looked forward to Uphellya night, and found in the joy and triumph that Karen would then give him a sufficient set-off to all Bele's injuries and impertinences.
The Duchess expatiates with feminine pertinacity upon the stinging impertinences and insulting condescensions she had to endure from her lately exalted cousin. One instance she dwells on with bitter recollection, for it was the first time the minion of the Queen had dared to show her how little she regarded her. When having with difficulty obtained an interview with Mrs.
Some theatre was opened which was found horribly ugly: one spoke of it as "Early Victorian." "No, no," replied Oscar, "nothing so distinctive. 'Early Maple, rather." Even his impertinences made echoes. At a great reception, a friend asked him in passing, how the hostess, Lady S , could be recognized.
It cut him, even though it came from a drunken man's mouth. "That little beauty you used to travel with on the North Side. You didn't marry her, did you?" He quoted Whitney's impertinences resentfully. George! But this was getting a little rough! He had never endured anything like this before he, Lester Kane. It set him thinking.
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