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Thus he could more decidedly and briefly come to the point; and should he, in doing so, appear too meddlesome, rather provoke a laugh than a frown-retiring from the ground with the honours due to a humorist.
"Go on!" he said, nodding sardonic approval. "Provoke me to violence. Goad me in the direction of insanity." His caddie sniggered audibly. Berry turned to him. "That's right, my boy. Make the most of your time. For you I have already devised a lingering death." "Look here, old chap," said I, "there's some mistake. I said I'd give you a stroke a hole, not a divot a stroke." Jonah strolled up.
He never mentions your name, or suffers it to be mentioned; he gave his orders to the servants that it never was to be spoken in the house again. Eliza could not, or would not remember, and she persisted in calling your room 'Mr. Richard's. I think the woman did it heedlessly, not maliciously, to provoke papa; she was a good servant, and had been with us three years you know.
The primal impulse of vice and sin is a short cut to happiness. It promises pleasure without earning it. And this pleasure is always an illusion. Its final legacy is weakness and pain. Pain is not a punishment, but a warning of harm done to the body. The unearned pleasures provoke this warning. They leave a "dark brown taste in the mouth." Their recollection is "different in the morning."
"I cannot claim the protection of Traverse, for I would not provoke him to wrath or run him into danger; nor, indeed, would I even permit my son to dream such a thing possible as that his mother could receive insult!
"Oh, a theatre girl, a poor fool of whom I have no regrets. La Binet was her name. I was a player at the time in her father's troupe. That was after the Rennes business, when it was necessary to hide from such justice as exists in France the gallows' justice for unfortunates who are not 'born. This added wrong led me to provoke a riot in the theatre." "Poor boy," she said tenderly.
My mind had been filled with Italian skies and burnished golden sunsets, ladies with tender black eyes, Sicilian coral necklaces, tunny-fish and tusks. I was to give up all these and to return to that never-to-be-forgotten, good-for-nothing rotten flotilla, to see Dover pier, the lighthouse, and the steeple of Boulogne, to cross and re-cross from one to the other to provoke an appetite.
The title of this book may not unnaturally provoke suspicion. After all, howsoever we define it, socialism is a modern thing, and dependent almost wholly on modern conditions. It is an economic theory which has been evolved under pressure of circumstances which are admittedly of no very long standing.
France and Holland are not inclined to provoke our hostility; they would have everything to lose by such a course." "There are other forces in the world that might be arrayed against us," argued the banker; "the United States, Japan, Italy, they all have navies."
Alva refused to attack the main army, but Frederic with a force of four thousand men, were alone left on the hither bank, in order to provoke or to tempt the enemy, who as usual, was encamped very near. Alva refused to attack the main army but rapidly detached his son, Don Fredrick, with a force of four thousand foot and three thousand horse, to cut off the rear-guard.
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