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The unintended viciousness of this retort produced an effect so marked, that, except for my growing uneasiness, I might have enjoyed her expression. As it was, I saved her face by entering into the conversation with a question, which I put quickly: "You intend pursuing your historical researches in the neighborhood?"
He even had a certain vague feeling that if he had any viciousness to get through he must do it at once, lest the resumption of his former respectability should deprive him of the opportunity.
He found Madame d'Houdetot dejected, and with the flush of recent weeping on her cheeks. A bird of the air had carried the matter. As usual, the matter was carried wrongly, and apparently all that Saint Lambert suspected was that Rousseau's high principles had persuaded Madame d'Houdetot of the viciousness of her relations with her lover.
An epic simplicity and directness, an honest Anglo-Saxon mirth and innocence, commended it. Crude it was; coarse it was, but no taint of viciousness was here. These people were good people, kindly, benignant even, always readier to give than to receive, always more willing to help than to be helped. They were good stock. Of such was the backbone of the nation sturdy Americans everyone of them.
Money, which exalts the lowly, and sheds honour upon the exalted money, which makes sin appear goodness, and gives to viciousness the seeming of chastity money, which silences evil report, and opens wide the mouth of praise money, which constitutes its possessor an oracle, to whom men listen with deference money, which makes deformity beautiful, and sanctifies crime money, which lets the guilty go unpunished, and wins forgiveness for wrong money, which makes manhood and age respectable, and is commendation, surety, and good name for the young, how shall it be gained? by what schemes gathered in? by what sacrifice secured?
As yet the little world of his associates had hardly found out how callous were his affections, or rather how devoid he was of affection. His airs and his appearance, joined with some cleverness, had carried him through even the viciousness of his life.
Sure I was, from the backward glance of viciousness which he cast at the other stamping steeds as soon as I dismounted, that he concluded with no hesitation they had in some way led me to ride him thither instead of to his snug berth in the Cavendish stables, with his eager nose in his feed trough.
Oh, these young girls steeped in viciousness, these awful streets, this hateful life, this hell of Sydney. And beyond it hell, still hell. Ah, he knew it now, unconsciously, as in a swoon one hears voices. The sorrow of it all! The hatefulness of it all! The weariness of it all! Why do we live? Wherefore? For what end, what aim?
All this time his viciousness gives not the least ground in order to it, but he becomes in an instant, I had almost said, of the vilest brute, a sort of hero, genius, or god. For he that receives his virtue from the Stoics portico may say, Ask what thou wilt, it shall be granted thee.
My answer is a four-fold one: In the first place a full recognition of the inadequacy or the viciousness of a given institution must arouse in any person of normal sensibility an enduring purpose to change such an institution, if possible, and the arousing of such an undying purpose in my hearers has necessarily been the aim of my scientific investigation, as it necessarily is the end of all scientific work.
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