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The love of ease that luxury brings along with it, the selfish and compromising spirit, in which the members of a polished society countenance each other, and which reverses the principle of patriotism, by sacrificing public interests to private ones, the substitution of intellectual for moral excitement, and the repression of enthusiasm by fastidiousness and ridicule, these are among the causes that undermine a people, that corrupt in the very act of enlightening them; till they become, what a French writer calls "esprits exigeans et caracteres complaisans," and the period in which their rights are best understood may be that in which they most easily surrender them.
When I married, they said to me: 'May it please the Lord that your husband be good to you. I thought: If I had not been sensible enough to choose a good husband, it would not help me much what should please the Lord. Later on they said: 'May it please the Lord to give you sons. I had some, but they died when they were little ones.
I mistook it for the somewhat similar manners of certain foreign women it is beyond English ones which mean, to those who can understand, "pay court to me." But I soon found I was mistaken. Mrs.
Conservative old Saint Peter's had taken the upheaval badly, not so much the theoretic questions at stake regarding the soundness of their rector's doctrine, as the loss of their rector himself. The older members of the congregation loved Brenton as a son, the younger ones as something a little dearer than a brother.
Lying there in the dark, the simple Constance never suspected that those two active and strenuous ones had been arranging her life for her, so that she should be jolly and live for twenty years yet. She did not suspect that she had been tried and found guilty of sinful attachments, and of being in a rut, and of lacking the elements of ordinary sagacity.
Kagax killed the little ones and had started after the mother, when a shiver passed over him and he turned back to listen. He had been moving more slowly of late; several times he had looked behind him with the feeling that he was followed. He stole back to the hare's form and lay hidden, watching his back track. He shivered again.
"His leading general principle, which he applies in every way, in great things as well as in small ones, is that a man's zeal depends upon his anxiety."
Amos had rather expected that she would have treated her married life as a thing so entirely to be forgotten a thing of misery and shame, a thing of the past to be henceforth to her and others as though it had never been, except so far as her children were concerned that she would have continued to dress herself and her little ones as usual, so as not by any outward sign to remind those around her that she had suffered any loss, or recall their thoughts to the man who had brought nothing but degradation to herself and disgrace to her family.
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