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But, to complete the delusion, all my sweethearts and wives are romantic and poetical skin-deep or they would not attract me and all turn out vulgar to the core. By their lovers alone can you ever know them. By the men they can't love, and the men they do love, you find these creatures that imitate sentiment so divinely are hard, prosaic, vulgar little things, thinly gilt and double varnished."
This was not quite uncoloured by the vague indictment against Mrs. Picture about Dave, who had, somehow, qualified for the receipt of forgiveness. Which implies some offence to condone. Shadowy as the offence was, Granny Marrable could not ignore it altogether. "Good looks are skin-deep so they say! But it's not for me to be setting up for judge.
Death calls him gently; the old wolf stirs deep within him, and he goes away where the master he served will never find him. And so with your cat, which is only skin-deep a domestic animal; and so with your canary, which in death alone would be free, and beats his failing wings against the cage in which he lived so long content. But these all go away singly, each to his own place.
It was a pleasant experience at the time, and, in several instances, helped forward good marriages later on. Pauline Lister was apportioned to me for two whole seasons, but she eventually married the man on whose jolly old staircase I painted her. Why didn't I come a cropper over any of them? Because there were too many, I suppose. Also, the attraction was skin-deep.
They had, I think, a genius for turning to account the little things of life and making the most of them, outwardly at all events. But the cheerfulness of those who refused to break down, even though it might be but skin-deep and subject to sudden blight, was still better than the utter misery and despair which prevailed elsewhere.
McRankine years, sir, to get used to her first husband. She told me so." "It took us some days, if I remember, to get used to Mrs. McRankine. To be sure, her cooking " "That's what I say, Mr. Anne: it's more than skin-deep: and you'll hardly believe me, sir that is, if you didn't take note of it but she hev got an ankle."
I go in for the much-abused fair-weather, skin-deep, April-shower friends, the friends who will drop off, if let alone, who must be kept awake to be kept at all, who will talk and laugh with you as long as it suits your respective humors and you are prosperous and happy, the blessed butterfly-race who flutter about your June mornings, and when the clouds lower, and the drops patter, and the rains descend, and the winds blow, will spread their gay wings and float gracefully away to sunny southern lands where the skies are yet blue and the breezes violet-scented.
In spite of all the to-do they make about their idols, and the temples they build, and the priests and priestesses whom they support, I could never think that their professed religion was more than skin-deep; but they had another which they carried with them into all their actions; and although no one from the outside of things would suspect it to have any existence at all, it was in reality their great guide, the mariner's compass of their lives; so that there were very few things which they ever either did, or refrained from doing, without reference to its precepts.
They have not our culture, and whatsoever they borrow from us is only skin-deep. Beneath the varnish they are their elemental selves lazy, cruel, treacherous and unscrupulous. No, no. Each race must keep to itself. Our strength in India depends on our exclusiveness upon keeping ourselves apart and above as superior beings. So long as they recognize we are superior, so long will they obey us."
But never forget to keep one eye open when dealing with such a slippery customer, for his repentance is only skin-deep at the best." Hugh made no reply. He knew it would have been utterly useless, because the Chief was not only a very stubborn man, but inclined to be a narrow-minded one in the bargain. So he and Thad walked out.
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