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The scoffer, I trust, has had his day; the time of the slanderer is gone by; the ribald jokes, the stale commonplaces, which have so long passed current when America was the theme, are now banished to the ignorant and the vulgar, or only perpetuated by the hireling scribblers and traditional jesters of the press. The intelligent and high-minded now pride themselves upon making America a study.
The beautiful young woman and her children might have served as model for a Holy Family some old painter's dream of a sweet benign Madonna; the trampling babe as the infant Christ; the upturned face of the little John adoring. No place this for the scoffer. Apart from the mere pleasure of the eye, there was ample justification for Turnham's transports.
"It's not that alone, madam," screamed Raby, "but, d m it, the little rascal's a scientist, an atheist, a radical, a scoffer! Disbelieves in the Bible, ma'am; is full of this Darwinian stuff about natural selection and descent. Descent, forsooth! In my day, madam, gentlemen were content to trace their ancestors back to gentlemen, and not to monkeys!" "Dear heart, the boy is clever," urged Jael.
Lyon," my wife interrupted, "you will get no information out of Mr. Morgan; he is a scoffer." "Not at all, I do assure you," Morgan replied. "I am just a humble observer. I see that there is a change going on, but I cannot comprehend it. When I was young, girls used to go in for society; they danced their feet off from seventeen to twenty-one.
To hear him you would say that he was a pitiless scoffer; to study him you would soon find, under this surface of rancorless irony, more candor and simplicity than he is himself aware of, and which few people possess who boast of their faith and belief. He has the mind of a sceptic and the believing soul of a neophyte. In less than three hours I reached Pont de l'Arche.
"My staff is a twig from Yggdrasill, the tree of universal life: Thersites gave it me, and the sap that throbs therein arises from the Undar fountain, where the grave Norns make laws for men and fix their destinies." "Thersites is a scoffer, and his gifts are mockery. I would have none of them." The two began to wrangle, not at all angrily, as to what Jurgen had best do with his prized staff.
It was this that had won him the name of "Wild" Pierre the most reckless, tireless man of the trails, a scoffer at peril, bolting through danger with rush and frenzy, overcoming sheerly by vigour those obstacles which destroy strong men in the North. The power that pulsed within him gleamed from his eyes, rang in his song, showed in the aggressive thrust of his sensual face.
Doubtless I was foolish Courtney would have called it something stronger but, nevertheless, I told her the story of Hugo. For the benefit of the scoffer let me say that the Lady Helen could be very fetching when she was so minded, and this was our first meeting in four years. "How romantic!" she exclaimed, when I had finished my tale. "Father will be so interested."
"Indeed!" said Robur, shrugging his shoulders, and resuming, "Since we have begun the study of the flight of large and small birds one simple idea has prevailed to imitate nature, which never makes mistakes. Between the albatross, which gives hardly ten beats of the wing per minute, between the pelican, which gives seventy " "Seventy-one," said the voice of a scoffer.
"Nearly a month, to my knowledge. That is, if you don't object to strong green tea, consumed in large quantities." "One should practise moderation in everything. Everything!" "It has struck me," said Edgar thoughtfully, "that moderation is now and then desirable in temperance reform." Mrs. Nelson fixed her eyes on him with a severe expression. "Are you a scoffer?"
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