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Yet these tourists, surrounded with such protection, were actually circumcised at Tripoli by Dr. Dickson , and were accustomed to attend the mosques and perform prayer as Mussulmans. Colonel Warrington certainly told me the people saw through all the mummery, and laughed, or were angry.
The phenomena, the train of antecedents and consequents, remain as before; and this is all that I am truly concerned with. But take away the existence of my fellow-men; and you reduce all that is, and all that I experience, to a senseless mummery. "You take my life, taking the thing whereon I live." Human nature, and the nature of mind, are to us a theme of endless investigation.
And when he had come to the bend in the stairs his eyes turned back to hers, slowly and irresistibly, drawn toward them, as it seemed, just as the sunflower is drawn toward the sun, or the needle toward the pole, or, in fine, as the eyes of young gentlemen ordinarily are drawn toward the eyes of the one woman in the world. Then he disappeared. The mummery of it vexed Margaret.
He was miserably conscious the next moment of his shrill tongue and ashen face. 'What do you mean it will not be presented? Why am I to take care? What is all this mummery? 'I have no idea, Mr Finsbury, replied the smiling Hebrew. 'It was a message I was to deliver. The expressions were put into my mouth. 'What is your client's name? asked Morris.
For a minute she felt as though to keep his secret were associating herself with his sin. But calmer thoughts enabled her to judge him more mercifully. She tried to view his case not as with her own eyes, but as it must appear to him. To one who disbelieved the Christian faith, the repetitions of its forms could seem but a mere idle mummery.
Besides the tournaments and similar sports, with which the upper classes of European society were accustomed at that day to divert themselves, there was a grand masquerade, to which the public were admitted as spectators. In this "mummery" the most successful spectacle was that presented by a group arranged in obvious ridicule of Granvelle.
He then veiled his face in a piece of silk that lay on a sofa, and rapidly, in a low voice, chanted a kind of hymn in a tongue unknown to Merton. All this he did with a bored air, as if he thought the performance a superfluous mummery. 'Now what shall I show you? Something simple. Look at the bookcase, and think of any book you may want to consult.
There was something in the air and mien of the figure which at once satisfied the painter that there was no mummery in the case, and that he really stood in the presence of a man of worship; and so, without hesitation, he doffed his cap, and courteously saluting the stranger, requested him to be seated.
I had given my testimony, but I could not make it sound as I wanted it Alf's own words were against him, as I repeated them that day. The preliminary trial, the mummery before a justice of the peace, also went against Alf; the grand jury had brought in its finding, and the next step was the formal arraignment before the circuit judge.
The image was incessantly saluted, as she was borne along the streets, with sneers, imprecations, and the rudest, ribaldry. "Mayken! Mayken!" 'Tis your last promenade. The city is tired of you." Such were the greetings which the representative of the Holy Virgin received from men grown weary of antiquated mummery.
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