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The nervous fatigue of this existence, the insincerities and platitudes which I had to live through twice over through my inner and outward sense would have been maddening to me, if I had not had that sort of intoxicated callousness which came from the delights of a first passion.
With a stinking coal fire, with the gas lit and the curtains drawn at half-past eleven in the forenoon, I feel that I am in my own country again at last. Patience, my friend patience! I am coming to the ladies. Entering Mr. Farnaby's private residence on the appointed day, I became acquainted with one more of the innumerable insincerities of modern English life.
And what would you think if you were told that this Sincere shepherd was appointed us for this evening's discourse, and that you were led up to this house, just that you might have your attention turned to your many miserable insincerities of all kinds, but especially to your so Julius-like devotions? 'And Nathan said unto David, Thou art the man.
Amidst the affectations, insincerities, and superficialities of Chopin's social intercourse, Delacroix's friendship we have already seen that the musician reciprocated the painter's sentiments stands out like a green oasis in a barren desert.
There was a time before, though, when I did not understand so well. I had watched you, and I did not like you. I distrusted you or, rather, did not trust you " "I understand. You were clever enough to see through me " "I thought that with your insincerities that you were all false. I should have been wise enough to know differently.
He was quite communicative, and from his conversation I was enabled to form a juster idea of his daughter's character, and the mode in which she had been brought up. Mr. Somerville had mingled much with the world, and with what is termed fashionable society. He had experienced its cold elegances and gay insincerities; its dissipation of the spirits and squanderings of the heart.
He looked at me for a moment as if trying to catch my meaning, and then snatched me still closer to his breast. "Mary," he cried, "don't ask me to consider what the damnable insincerities of society may say to a case like ours. If you don't care, then neither do I. And as for the world, by the Lord God I swear that all I ask of it I am now holding in my arms."
Who has not seen a soul spring into life through the love of a radiant friendship; and then following a series of hollow pretenses, insincerities, that friendship fails, and the beautiful creature stifles and dies. As one tells us, "such a death is frightful, it is the asphyxia of the soul!" Then, tenderness is an essential element in the character of a friend.
I look back now across the detaching intervention of sixteen crowded years, critically and I fancy almost impartially, to those beginnings of my married life. I try to recall something near to their proper order the developing phases of relationship. I am struck most of all by the immense unpremeditated, generous-spirited insincerities upon which Margaret and I were building.
It had bought its comfort with the demoralisation of its servants. It had no completely honest organs; its spirit was clogged by its accumulated insincerities.
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