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It strikes me that I have heard of your once playing off that trick upon a tourist." "Ah!" said Rooney, with a sly chuckle, "yer lordship alludes to a mean-souled tailor, from London. He stood where yer lordship stands for more nor an hour, beating me down from half a crown, my lawful fee, to a shilling, and me with seven children and the wife at home down with the fever.
At the next moment he had drawn up sharply, with pangs of self-contempt, hating himself, loathing himself, swearing at himself for a mean-souled ingrate, as he kicked up the grass and the turf beneath it But the idea had taken root. He could not help it; the Governor's interest went for nothing in his reckoning.
You need say no more. I know the rest. Most men even brutes like you, if there are any would have been ashamed even to think the things you said, said openly to me, you hound. You vile, traitorous, mean-souled hound! 'What did I say?
In "King John" we have, on the contrary, the mean-souled Robert Faulconbridge and his gallant and chivalrous bastard brother Philip. About the same time, or if not in the same time, perhaps in the same year which saw the production of "King Lear," "Macbeth" was written. But its date is not certain within four or five years.
On the contrary, it was the most savage indictment possible of the marriageable and marrying men who had met her of their stupidity, of their short-sighted and mean-souled calculation, of their lack of courage the courage to take what they, as men of flesh and blood wanted, instead of what their snobbishness ordered.
As for dishonour that is the cry of the pack, the refuge of the snarling mob yelping at the bombastic vociferations of some mean-souled demagogue; and in Paris there were many, and the pack howled in the Republic at the crack of the lash. "Lady Hesketh is here, too," said Lorraine. "She appears to be a little reconciled to her loss. Dorothy, it breaks my heart to see Rickerl.
And amongst that mean-souled race of men, the buffoons, there have been some who would not leave their fooling at the very moment of death. One that the hang man was turning off the ladder cried: "Launch the galley," an ordinary saying of his.
"Yes!" I added, referring to the page. "You tease, irk, harry, badger, infest, persecute. You gall, sting, and convulse me. You are a plain old beast, that's what you are. You're a conscienceless sneak and a wherret you mean-souled blot on the face of nature!" Here I broke down and wept, and the old gentleman's sides shook with laughter.
The little wretch was an example of the common rule that mean-souled persons when they are in favour are always insolent, and ready to offend those who are much better than themselves, though inferior to them in fortune. Scip.
He had infinitely more magnanimity, in its fullest sense, than that very spoiled, self-willed, and mean-souled man, and I have authority for the last term. To say nothing of personal and private transactions, pages 204-207 in the first volume of Mr. Monckton Milnes's life of our poet will be full authority for my estimate of his Lordship.
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