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The lady must be true to her knight, and the knight must be true to his lady: the Courts of Love solemnly banish from society any woman who is known to have more than one lover. Tristram and Launcelot, the two paragons of knighthood, are inviolably constant to their mistress: the husband may and must be deceived, but not the wife who helps to deceive him.
If it was the design of the proviso to restrict congressional action on the subject of slavery, why is the soil alone specified? As legal instruments are not paragons of economy in words, might not "John Doe," out of his abundance, and without spoiling his style, have afforded an additional word at least a hint that slavery was meant, though nothing was said about it?
What shall I tell you about?" said the Mother. She put her finger on her brow and pretended to be thinking very hard. "Tell us about 'The Wonderful Tea-Kettle," said Take. "Tell us about 'The Four and Twenty Paragons," said Taro. "What is a Paragon?" asked Take. "A Paragon is some one who is very good, indeed, better than anybody else," said the Mother. "Are you a Paragon?"
People, looking at the pretty pair, smiled significantly, and concluded that it would be a match, and went home and told less privileged people about the evident attachment between the Duke's daughter and the young commoner. But Rorie was not strongly drawn towards his cousin this evening. It seemed to him that she was growing more and more of a paragon; and he hated paragons.
Of the squire, at the present moment, he was not very fond; but if his destiny intended to give him a wife out of this family, he should prefer the owner of Allington and nephew of Lord De Guest as a brother-in-law to a village doctor, as he took upon himself, in his pride, to call Dr Crofts. "It is very unfortunate," said he, "but I never do like Paragons." "But you must like this Paragon.
"There's but one that I know of Heaven forbid that there were two! But I beg your pardon, Mr. Ormond, if she is a friend of yours I humbly beg your forgiveness I did not know your taste was so very good! .Lady Annaly is a fine old lady, certainly vastly respectable; and I so far agree with Mr. Ormond, that of the two paragons, mother and daughter, I prefer the mother.
What I have said of Carbo, is equally true of the Gracchi: though, in some particulars, the character you have given them was no more than they deserved. But to say nothing of the rest of your Orators, let us proceed to Antonius and Crassus, your two paragons of Eloquence, whom I have heard myself, and who were certainly very able Speakers.
Do not here produce ancient examples of the paragons of paillardice, and offer to match with my testiculatory ability the Priapaean prowess of the fabulous fornicators, Hercules, Proculus Caesar, and Mahomet, who in his Alkoran doth vaunt that in his cods he had the vigour of three score bully ruffians; but let no zealous Christian trust the rogue, the filthy ribald rascal is a liar.
Paragons in their teens are insufferable: patterns of perfection are good for nothing in society, except to be torn to pieces." Miss Lardner pursued this diversion of tearing them to pieces, still flattering herself that her present wit and drollery would prevail with Ormond, as she had found it prevail with most people against an absent friend.
Or else they hold themselves up as paragons of virtue and self-control, and would have us believe that they have brought their children into the world solely from a high, stern sense of public duty an attitude which is about as convincing as it would be to declare that they found them under gooseberry bushes.
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