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Come, shall we both go to-morrow to Hatchstead a pretty village, Mr Darrell and let the great folk go alone to Dover?" "You know I cannot. I serve my Lord Arlington." "And I the Duke of Monmouth." "But my Lord is the King's servant." "And his Grace the King's son." "Oh, if you're obstinate " he began, frowning. "As fate, as prophecy, as witch, as Ranter, as devil, or as yourself!"
Auld should swoop upon him with the thunders of the Church, and, in company with seven others, Rab the Ranter must figure some fine Sunday on the stool of repentance, would there not be a sort of glory, an infernal apotheosis, in so conspicuous a shame? Was not Richelieu in disgrace more idolised than ever by the dames of Paris? and when was the highwayman most acclaimed but on his way to Tyburn?
Ranter; I know you possess all the mimicry and mischievous qualities of an ape, because I have observed you put them all in practice more than once to-night, on me and others; now I want to see if you resemble one in nimbleness also; therefore, I desire you leap over this sword without hesitation."
On catechising evenings the schoolmaster was a great man, preaching and teaching for three hours at a stretch much in the style of an English ranter.
Elbowing his way irresistibly through the ranks, he set himself squarely before Phineas, and, wagging his head significantly enough, growled out: "Say what you will of Castlemaine and the rest, Master Ranter, but keep your tongue off Nelly." A murmur of applause ran round. They knew Nelly: here in the Lane was her kingdom. "Let Nelly alone," said the porter, "if you value whole bones, master."
This dreadful fight for front places, for prosperity this rooted, individual selfishness the hopeless materialism of it all the ultimate ruin ." She broke off. "You'll take me for a street ranter if I go on. But it's rather piteous to see people straining and agonizing after what, after all, can never bring them any comfort." "But that's just what I was saying," he protested.
His evenings are chiefly spent at a club of his countrymen, where the London papers are taken. Sometimes his daughters entice him to the theaters, but not often. He abuses French tragedy, as all fustian and bombast, Talma as a ranter, and Duchesnois as a mere termagant.
It does not harm a man to be certain before opening the books that Whitman is an obscene ranter or that Stevenson is a mere trifler with style. It is the man who can think these things after he has read the books who must be in a fair way to mental perdition.
There was more than a tinge of the street ranter in his utterance. She was glad that Fielding spared her an introduction. She tried to turn her attention back to the entertainment, but the coarse words hung in her memory like an evil cloud. They recalled Green's brief condemnation of the previous evening. Evidently his point of view was the same. He regarded the whole social system as evil.
"That is making it entirely a private question," said Phoebe, suavely, "which I did not mean to do. When such a man finds out abuses what he takes to be abuses in the Church, which treats him like a roadside ranter, may not he feel a right to be indignant? Oh, I am not so.
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