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Updated: September 23, 2024
And then, from the depths of his negation, the chaos into which his loss of faith had plunged him, Pierre felt a delicious freshness pass like the vague advent of a new faith. So vague it was that he could not have expressed even his hope of it in words.
He wondered what he should say whether she could understand him any better than he could her. "You speak English?" he began hesitantly. The girl did not answer at once; she seemed to be trying to divine his meaning. Then she waved her hand a curious movement, which he took to be a gesture of negation her broadening smile disclosing teeth that were small, even, and very white.
It was felt that this simple negation constituted a solemn vow taken by the delegates, both for themselves and for those they represented an act of self-dedication to which every loyal man and woman in Ulster was committed, and from which there could be no turning back.
All I can say about myself is this. I've been up against it hard very hard. So far as regards the ordinary affairs of life I simply don't count. I'm a negation a purely subjective personage. I may be able to help you a little here I shall certainly never be in your way. My interest in the place there, I will tell you that is purely of a sentimental nature.
Aye, what should he do now that he was all doubt again, all dolorous negation, and that his cassock weighed more heavily than it had ever weighed upon his shoulders?
"Why, man," he cried, "it's the devil's truth! Everything about you is a negation! You ought to be a priest by all the lines and features of you; but you're not... Scorch me, but you're not!" His voice went up on the final word as though to convey some impressive, sinister discovery. It was true in every aspect of the man.
"But how about Dineen? He'd go nearly crazy!" "There's where a lot of the fun would come in. And to see the way Gertie Black, the elocution teacher, would carry on!..." But after a long pause of temptation I shook my head in negation of the suggestion.... It would be a lark, but I had pledged Dineen that I would give him no more trouble with my vagaries....
She threw one of the pistols on the ground near him, saying: "Take that up and defend yourself." He waved his hand in negation, bowed, smiled, and rode on. "Mr. Le Noir!" she called, in a peremptory tone. Once more he turned. She raised her pistol, took deliberate aim at his white forehead, and fired Bang! bang! bang! bang! bang! bang!
He will, no doubt, do all in his power to bring about the scenic embodiment. Berlin and Vienna will probably hold back a little in existing circumstances, and the rest of Germany, which is united at least in the spirit of NEGATION, will probably wait prudently until the camel comes walking along, after which it will consult no end of folios in order to describe and appreciate it properly.
Some notion of such a concern, something different in their consciousness from the absolute negation of the idea, something that faintly responds to the terms which would be used by a person conversing with them, in the way of questioning them on the subject, may be presumed to exist in the minds of all who are advanced a considerable way into youth, or come to mature age, in a country where all are familiar with several of the principal terms of theology, and have the monitory spectacle of edifices for religious use, on spots appointed also for the interment of the dead.
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