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Who would have imagined that she had hurt him? But she certainly looked with greater animation on Mr. Pericles; and when Tracy Runningbrook sat down by her, a perfect little carol of chatter sprang up between them. These two presented such a noticeable contrast, side by side, that the ladies had to send a message to separate them.
Wilfrid was retiring, with a revived anger at his father's want of natural confidence in him, or cowardly secresy. His name was called, and he stopped short. "Yes, sir?" he said. "Door's shut?" "Shut fast." The voice, buried in curtains, came after a struggle. "You've done this, Wilfrid. Now, don't answer: I can't stand talk. And you must undo it. Pericles can if he likes.
"But," exclaimed Douglas, at the top of his voice, "you are all making a mistake; we are no Peruvian spies, but a couple of British sailors, who have left our ship, the Pericles, in order to enlist in the Chilian navy, and fight against the Peruvians, not for them. We are merely waiting for the offices to open, in order to proceed there and give in our names as candidates for service."
Now you shall see what a friend Pericles can be when a person satisfy him." He pushed Wilfrid into his dressing-room, and immediately received the countess with an outburst of brutal invectives pulling her up and down the ranked regiment of her misdeeds, as it were.
Then she noticed Aspasia, and, rising, said with quiet dignity, "Tell your friend to go." "She goes, and I follow her." "That is right! For now, my Pericles, the last tie between us is dissolved! Farewell!" "Farewell, my wife!" And, turning to Aspasia, he said, "Give me your hand, my spouse." "Here it is." The mourning mother lingered: "We shall all meet again some day, shall we not?
He was a Bernard, a Bourdaloue, and a Whitefield combined, speaking in the language of Pericles, and on themes which Paganism never comprehended and the Middle Ages but imperfectly discussed. The permanent influence of such a man can only be measured by the dignity and power of the pulpit itself in all countries and in all ages.
The Scythian police who kept order in the Pnyx could procure him no audience. And when Nicias saw that he could not prevent the enterprise, he placed his services at Alcibiades' disposal, and began to equip the fleet. Aspasia was now the widow of Pericles, and had mourned him for a long time. The "Hemicyklion" was no more, but her few remaining friends visited her from time to time.
The reader may remember how Quinctilian in effect said that there is no instrument of persuasion more powerful than an opinion of probity and honour in the person who undertakes to persuade, and how it has been pointed out that the powerful effect caused by the speaking of Pericles really lay in the confidence which the people reposed in his integrity.
He was therefore quite ready for it, warned his soldiers that it was coming, and illustrated his meaning by flinging his cloak over the head of his pilot. "Can you see the sun now?" he asked. "Why, no! master, of course not!" replied the man. "Your thick cloak is between me and the sun; how could I see through it?" "Well, neither can you see through the moon, then," replied Pericles.
A very minute parallel might be, drawn between the opposing civilizations that are to-day in this country contending for the mastery and those which were engaged in a similar conflict in the days of Pericles. New England would be found to be the Attica of America; while, on the other hand, the Southrons would most exactly correspond to the ancient Lacedaemonians.
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