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We are all incompris, only more or less concerned for the mischance; all trying wrongly to do right; all fawning at each other's feet like dumb, neglected lapdogs. Sometimes we catch an eye this is our opportunity in the ages and we wag our tail with a poor smile. "Is that all?" All? If you only knew! But how can they know?
Petersburg; and any body could see at a glance that they were of a distinguished and fashionable family, because they had a courier and two lapdogs, and carried a coat of arms on their trunks and bandboxes, and were taken with violent headaches soon after leaving Cronstadt, and used smelling-salts.
I snarled like any cross-grained mongrel. "The King shall hear of this, you knave! By God, he shall!" They dragged me from him at last those lapdogs that attended him and with much rough handling they sent me sprawling among the sawdust on the floor. It is more than likely that but for Castelroux's intervention they had made short work of me there and then.
My father fell by the hands of Indians in Mexico; my mother, a penniless widow, is companion, duenna whatsoever they may choose to call it carrying fans and lapdogs for some princess or other there in Seville, of no better blood than herself; and I devil! I have lost even my sword and so fares the house of De Soto." Don Guzman, of course, intended to be pitied, and pitied he was accordingly.
Their garments, of the lightest rose, violet, or yellow tints, diversify fantastically the monotonous white robes of their gentle companions. Of their employments, the most conspicuous are playing on the lute, gaming with dice, teasing their lapdogs, and insulting their parasites. Whatever their occupation, it is performed with little attention, and less enthusiasm.
"Yellow hat" told us subsequently, with reference to this curious picture of their domestic life, that it was the custom of the country so to take out their pet canaries and other little songsters for an airing, instead of lapdogs. These they reserve for their pies and other choice dishes.
Since noon the cars had been steadily filling up, until the compartments destined for ten persons were accommodating twenty, not including bundles, lapdogs, bandboxes and bird-cages even then there was always room for one more. And nobody was indignant, but rather complacent and obliging, for had they not all sons at the front and the same great grief at heart?
Two years before, a friend of Josephine had given her a small, young model of the then fashionable breed of dogs, a small lapdog, and at once Josephine had made a pet of the little animal, which had been recommended to her as the progeny of a rare and genuine race of lapdogs.
It is the Devil who turns us into friends of lapdogs and makes us enemies of the homeless.
The worker has no means of comparison; hence his bottomless contempt for intellectual work, the results of which he recognizes, but which, in regard to the labour it costs, he puts on a level with the idling of the folk whom he sees strolling or driving about with their lapdogs in the fashionable streets.
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