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This is a curious fact, for as a rule these bargellos are spies, liars, traitors, cheats, and misanthropes, for a man despised hates his despisers. At Sienna I was shewn a Count Piccolomini, a learned and agreeable man.
Boys always keep those vows, of course for an hour or two, and then break them, and a good thing too. They would be horrible young misanthropes if they did not.
Under the chestnut-trees of the Bois de Boulogne, through long summer days, the two friends, sick of the noisy world about them, yet yearning to become its benefactors, gladly escaping from it, yet busy with schemes for its regeneration and happiness, at once misanthropes and philanthropists, amused and solaced themselves by imagining a perfect and simple state of society, in which the lessons of emulation and selfish ambition were never to be taught; where, on the contrary, the young were to obey their parents, and to prefer father, mother, brother, sister, wife, and friend to themselves.
"The little hunting lodge where we two misanthropes live like hermits, cut off from all the world beside, save the apes and parrots which we brought from the East, and they, by the way, are growing very melancholy in their new home." "One would never take your highness for a misanthrope," said Frau von Wallmoden with a fleeting smile.
But the calumny of certain cannibals, misanthropes, perpetual eavesdroppers, has been so foul and excessive against me, that it had conquered my patience, and I had resolved not to write one jot more.
As laws so foolish and so tyrannical were read out to them, the worthy monks all of them of different character and age openly expressed their discontent. The Abbe de Rance allowed them to go and get pleasure in other monasteries, and contrived to collect around him youths whom it was easy to delude, and a few elderly misanthropes; with these he formed his doleful wailing flock.
Their exclamations, the instant they arose, showed that both their hearts were keenly alive to the good and the beautiful which surrounded them and their tongues were not altogether incapable of uttering the praise of Him who clothes so gorgeously the lovely earth and peoples it with millions of happy creatures yes, happy creatures, for, despite the existence of death and sin and sorrow everywhere, and the croaking of misanthropes, there is much, very much, of pure, overflowing happiness here below.
This nameless fellow signs himself 'One of Many, That is probably a lie. But if there were thousands like himself prying into your and my affairs, I should not care. As for motives, none but fools and misanthropes trouble themselves about them." The inventor tossed off the last sentence contemptuously.
It is sometimes said of them that they do not read all through the works they are called upon to criticise. They do not. Or at least they should not. If they did so, they would become confirmed misanthropes, or if I may borrow a phrase from one of the pretty Newnham graduates, confirmed womanthropes for the rest of their lives. Nor is it necessary.
"He is in the smoking-room with five or six other tobacco misanthropes. What do you want of him?" "I want to say two words in his ear; after which I shall vanish and make room for my betters." Miss Van Brock was gazing steadfastly at the impassioned face lighted by the piano candles. "Is it about Miss Brentwood?" she asked abruptly. "In a way yes," he confessed.
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