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Updated: May 21, 2025
The fear of man, the trust in man, the deference to the opinion of man, is the merest worship of a rag-stuffed idol. The man who SEEKS the judgment of God can well smile at the unsolicited approval or condemnation of self-styled Society. There IS a true society quite another thing. Doubtless the judgment of the world is of even moral value to those capable of regarding it.
Governesses to her were poor-spirited creatures afraid of rats, and the dark passages and one and all resentful of the rag-stuffed panes in the long gallery. Surely with the new-found Cheiron to instruct her about those divine Greeks a fresh governess was unnecessary. "I shall ask Aunt Ginevra to implore my stepfather not to send any more. We don't want them, do we, Priscilla?"
The broken old buggy stood rotting in the mud without a single lean, little old man or woman such were the children of the Cross-Roads to play about it. The fields were empty, and the rag-stuffed windows blank, under the baleful glance of the horsemen who galloped by at intervals, muttering curses, not always confining themselves to muttering them.
There were, moreover, several scathing sentences concerning "rag-stuffed windows," and "rickety stairways," that caused this same Henry Dodge to scowl angrily, and to say a sharp word behind his teeth though at the same time he paled with something very like fear. The matter of repairs and improvements having been properly and efficiently attended to, Mrs.
A miserably starved black cat, that made a ten foot leap when she first espied me, was the only sign of life on the place, while the many rag-stuffed broken window panes plainly indicated that great changes had been made at the "big" house since my last departure.
He had tumbled to the foot of the ladder; he was hungry, homeless, friendless, ragged, cold, drifting; and he held in his hand the key to a paradise of the mud-honey that he craved. The fairy doll had waved a wand with her rag-stuffed hand; and now wherever he might go the enchanted palaces with shining foot-rests and magic red fluids in gleaming glassware would be open to him.
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