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But when all this has been freely admitted, still sadness crouches somewhere in all hearts, and over every life the storm sometimes stoops.
Once again he is his earliest friend; the boy, the youth, the man, he had loved, until a woman had come between them. Everything rushes back upon him, as he stoops over Gower, and gazes, with passionate fear and grief, upon his marble face. After all, there had been more good points than bad about Stephen, more good, indeed, than about most fellows.
Then comes in the other man, and he carries in his hand writing materials. He stoops to the stone couch on which the prisoner lies, and offers him a pen, as he raises him partially from the miserable damp pallet. But there is no speculation in the eyes of that oppressed man.
Because God has conferred upon her the charm of a beauty not elsewhere found in earth, the world has vainly imagined she was made to glory in its exhibition. Hence woman is too often a vain, idle, useless thing. She stoops to be the plaything of man, the idol of his vanity, the victim of his lust. In stooping, she lays off her womanhood to pander to the low aims of a sensual life.
Let the disastrous reign of William the Testy serve as a salutary warning against that fitful, feverish mode of legislation, which acts without system, depends on shifts and projects, and trusts to lucky contingencies; which hesitates, and wavers, and at length decides with the rashness of ignorance and imbecility; which stoops for popularity by courting the prejudices and flattering the arrogance, rather than commanding the respect, of the rabble; which seeks safety in a multitude of counsellors, and distracts itself by a variety of contradictory schemes and opinions; which mistakes procrastination for weariness hurry for decision parsimony for economy bustle for business, and vaporing for valor; which is violent in council, sanguine in expectation, precipitate in action, and feeble in execution; which undertakes enterprises without forethought, enters upon them without preparation, conducts them without energy, and ends them in confusion and defeat.
They pass within; a bright face offers itself for a kiss; fondly he stoops, but the dream vanishes; in the breaking of the morn he stands alone; hope dead within his breast. Winter waited long for his servant's return. He walked restlessly up and down the chamber, ever and anon pausing, either for recourse to the flagon on the table, or to draw aside the curtains and gaze out upon the street.
Rule and dignity are the predominant ideas in the word 'Lord, as, indeed, the English reader feels in hearing it; and then, side by side with that, there lies this thought, that the Highest, the Ruler of all, whose absolute authority stretches over all mankind, stoops to this low and servile office, and becomes the burden-bearer for all the pilgrims who will put their trust in Him.
'Treachery, Madame, he answered, with his sudden smile and a bow. 'Treachery. She frowned. When a Queen stoops to dalliance a subject must not be too practical. 'Ah! What is it that concerns my life? Another plot? she inquired shortly. 'Another plot, but one of greater importance than those that exist in the republican cafes of every town in your Majesty's kingdom.
On the opposite side of the river, the desert crouched like a lion who flings back his head with a shake of yellow mane, before he stoops to drink.
"That is so, but they are brilliant. She is tall, and of a good figure." "I fancy she stoops a little, my lord?" "I do not deny it. She has a noble appearance." "Yes, but her face is thin." "I thought her teeth beautiful." "They can easily be seen, for her mouth is large enough. Decidedly, I was wrong, my lord; you are certainly handsomer than your wife."
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