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Let the miserable worldling say, and confess, if there be any plot, pasture, or meadow, so delightful to the mind of man, as here. Here I see kings, princes, cities, and people; here I see wars, where some be overthrown, some be victors, some thrust down, some lifted up. Here is Mount Sion; here I am already in heaven itself.
"It is Dodd's sister; and he will introduce me at a word, worldling as I am." "Then why urge me to do it, against my conscience?" asked the young lady, as sharply as if she had been a woman of the world. " You cannot be in love with her, as you do not know her." Alfred did not reply to this unlucky thrust, but made a last effort to soften her.
Brother Ignatius supported him in these thoughts, and the decision was firmly made a worldling became a servant of the church; the young artist took leave of the world, and entered the cloister. How joyfully, how cordially the brothers greeted him! How festive the ordination!
He is a man who wishes to effect some établissement or reform here, but he will not accomplish much in that respect, as he not only has no grace therefor, but there seems to be something in his life which will hereafter manifest itself more. For the present we can say with truth that he is a perfect worldling.
To th' All wise Subtle One trust worldly things * Rest thee from all whereto the worldling clings: Learn wisely well naught cometh by thy will * But e'en as willeth Allah, King of Kings. And lastly. Gladsome and gay forget thine every grief * Full often grief the wisest hearts outwore: Thought is but folly in the feeble slave * Shun it and so be saved evermore.
To her, however, he seemed to be posing as a conqueror of heiresses, indifferent to the pain he might inflict upon any girl silly enough to be captivated by his good looks and good manners, a breaker of tacit engagements, and a wicked worldling.
So it is, too, with certain exaggerations of design characteristic rather of the period than the man notably with the two figures to the left of the foreground. The Christ in His meekness is too little divine, too heavy and inert; the Pontius Pilate not inappropriately reproduces the features of the worldling and viveur Aretino.
Such are the contradictions of character which hourly detect and describe the mere worldling the man lacking in all principle, but that which is subservient to his selfish policy.
'My revered tutor, this is shameless. I came to pay my respects to a philosopher, and I find a sordid worldling. Look at me! I am a man of the largest needs, spiritual and physical, yet I make my pittance of four hundred and fifty suffice, and never grumble. Perhaps you aim at an income equal to my own? 'I do! What's four hundred and fifty?
"Skall to the Viking!" shouted the Danes once more, at this outburst of heathendom, common enough among their half-converted race, in times when monasticism made so utter a divorce between the life of the devotee and that of the worldling, that it seemed reasonable enough for either party to have their own heaven and their own hell. After all, Hereward was not original in his wish.
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