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You can see how helpless I am, even though your daughter in her normal mood begged me to save her from madness. I regard her condition as very critical. To expose her to a public trial of her powers may unsettle her reason." Lambert was profoundly moved by Morton's rapid statement. "What would you advise me to do?"
As regards what is new to us, a definition will sometimes dilute a difficulty, and help us to swallow that which might choke us undiluted; but to define when we have once well swallowed is to unsettle, rather than settle, our digestion.
"Yes, sir; and, as I suspected, Diggle is at the bottom of their disappearance." He related the series of incidents up the river. "Dressed like a native, was he? But his day of reckoning will come; I am sure of it, and the world will be none the worse for the loss of so vile a creature. If you take my advice you'll say nothing to Mr. Merriman of this discovery. 'Twould only unsettle the poor man.
"Don't be German, Alicia, if you love me. The picture is the picture: and my lady is my lady. That's my way of taking things, and I'm not metaphysical; don't unsettle me."
'Now, Mr. Staples, said Felix, smiling, 'aren't you doing our best to unsettle a young man in business? 'Well, well, you are too reasonable. A contingency only a contingency. But I should like to show you. And he hastily sketched a pedigree that had at least the advantage of showing Felix his relationships. Rev. Lancelot. | | | | | Rev. Fulbert. Lancelot | | | | Rev.
"Ben, dear," she said, tenderly, that evening, when they were all talking it over in the family council, "I hope you didn't drop anything, when that poor creature spoke to you about it this morning, that could unsettle her mind in any way?" "No, mother," said Halleck, gently. "I was sure you didn't," returned his mother, repentantly.
It seems to me, that real love must unsettle the mind, upset the nerves and distract the head; that it must how shall I express it? be dangerous, even terrible, almost criminal and sacrilegious; that it must be a kind of treason; I mean to say that it is almost bound to break laws, fraternal bonds, sacred obstacles; when love is tranquil, easy, lawful and without dangers, is it really love?
For, though it might be gratifying to a mere interest of curiosity, yet I believe that we should both be grieved if anything were to unsettle in our feelings the mysterious sanctities of Jerusalem, or to disturb that awful twilight which will for ever brood over Judea by letting in upon it the 'common light of day; and this effect would infallibly take place, if any one department of daily life, as it existed in Judea, were brought with all the degrading minutiae of its details within the petty finishing of a domestic portrait.
And such is their audacity, they even dare to unsettle the wits of gentlemen of birth and intelligence, as is shown plainly by the way they have served your worship, when they have brought you to such a pass that you have to be shut up in a cage and carried on an ox-cart as one would carry a lion or a tiger from place to place to make money by showing it.
"I am glad indeed, Cuthbert. I shan't be quite so sorry now as I have been about your losing Fairclose. It is so much nobler to work than it is to fritter away a life doing nothing. How tiresome it is," she said, "that you have taken this unfortunate idea in your head of joining a French corps. It will unsettle you altogether."
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