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None the less, the office of Orderly Sergeant being thrust upon him, he managed in his humble way to get through with it passably well. When the State Government was organized in 1818, while shrinking from even the gaze of men, and spurning from the depths of his soul the arts of politicians, he managed in some way to be designated one of the judges of the Supreme Court of the new State.
So with such minor unpleasantnesses as roaring oaths, curses and personal vilification, we won free of the denser traffic and had at last left the great city behind us and Wildfire's scornful hoofs were spurning the dust of Kent Street.
At the period when the aristocracy of Great Britain lent themselves to their own diminution of importance, by the prevalent system of rejecting the poorer class of tenantry, in many instances the most attached, the consequence was foreseen by the then proprietor of Delme Park, who, spurning the advice of some interested few around him, continued to foster those whose ancestors had served his.
'Yes, yes! your mother! your mother! your mother! he cried, unable to let her out of his embrace; and then restraining himself as he saw her frightened eyes, in absolute fear of her spurning him, or struggling from him, 'My sweet! my child! Ah! do you not know me? Then, remembering how wild this was, he struggled to speak calmly: 'What are you called, my treasure?
Legate replied he had prayed to Christ in the days of his ignorance, but not for the last seven years. Away, base fellow, said James, spurning him with his foot, it shall never be said that one stayeth in my palace that hath never prayed to our Saviour for seven years together. Legate, having been imprisoned for some time in Newgate, was declared an incorrigible heretic and burned at Smithfield . Just a month later, one Wightman was burned at Lichfield, by the Bishop of Coventry, for heterodox doctrines.
These certainly were peculiar, since she insisted on a waltz round the room with the tabby cat, and ascended a step-ladder, merrily spurning Jasper's protection, to insert the circle of tapers on the crowning chandelier. There was nothing left for Dolores to do but to sit by in the window-seat, philosophizing on the remarkable effects of a handle to one's name, and feeling cruelly neglected.
"She is useless now," said La Corriveau, rising and spurning Angelique with her foot. "I deemed she had courage to equal her wickedness. She is but a woman after all, doomed to be the slave of some man through life, while aspiring to command all men! It is not of such flesh that La Corriveau is made!" La Corriveau stood a few moments, reflecting what was best to be done.
She, lovely and graceful, in an uncommon degree, but totally regardless of herself and him and everything around, and spurning her own attractions with her haughty brow and lip, as if they were a badge or livery she hated.
Only an instant he stood there motionless and staring; then with a cry, wordless and harsh, he ran toward the barrier. Beneath his spurning feet the friable skeletons crumbled and vanished; he dashed himself against the door with a curse that was half a prayer; he strove with it and staggered back, livid and shaken, for it held! Now Beatrice had reached it, too.
To spurn such propositions as these with all the concessions to the Slave Power therein contained was equivalent to spurning any and all propositions that could possibly be made; and by doing this, the Seceding States placed themselves as they perhaps desired in an utterly irreconcilable attitude, and hence, to a certain extent, which had not entered into their calculations, weakened their "Cause" in the eyes of many of their friends in the North, in the Border States, and in the World.
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