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For this hope some of us are bound in chains, others are lashed with scourges, others are carried about as laughing-stocks, others are outlawed, others are cruelly tortured, others escape by flight; but we are all reduced to extreme perplexities, execrated with dreadful curses, cruelly slandered and treated with the greatest indignities.
Five minutes ago we might have turned back, but such a course now would make us laughing-stocks even to ourselves. And there was Sylvia. What sort of a quitter would she think me! I saw that someone had to board that yacht, even though such a course, almost to a certainty, meant a test of the professor's surgical skill a skill we knew he possessed along with his other attainments.
"Well, make fools of us all; make us laughing-stocks; break it off; have your own way." "But who knows of the engagement as yet? how can breaking it disgrace you?" Melbury then by degrees admitted that he had mentioned the engagement to this acquaintance and to that, till she perceived that in his restlessness and pride he had published it everywhere.
But we know what mourning means at Whitehall Lady Castlemaine in black velvet, with forty thousand pounds in diamonds to enliven it; a concert instead of a play, perhaps; and the King sitting in a corner whispering with Mrs. Stewart. But as for the contagion, you will see that everybody will rush back to London, and that you and I will be laughing-stocks."
They are inferior physically, and must be content to remain so. Enthusiasm never carried her to the absurd and exaggerated extremes which have made later champions of the cause laughing-stocks.
All these, therefore, are melancholy laughing-stocks. Next, here are honest and well intentioned persons, who by a want of tact by inaccurate perceptions by a distorting imagination have been kept continually at cross purposes with the world and bewildered upon the path of life. Let us see if they can confine themselves within the line of our procession.
We can imagine Viola at once seeing through Malvolio's attempt at pleasing Olivia, instead of taking him for mad, as Olivia did. Which is the best lover, the Duke, Sebastian, Olivia, or Viola? Show how the droll situations of the play are mainly contrived by some of the characters in order to make others their laughing-stocks. Who are Sir Toby's butts?
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