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Besides, Mrs. Vansuythen was far prettier than them all. She had been most gracious to me at the Governor- General's rout, and indeed I was looked upon by all as her preux chevalier which is French for a much worse word. Now, whether I cared so much as the scratch of a pin for this same Mrs. So that I believed I worshipt her.
And no variety, no division of time, no hour, no sun or night disturbed or changed this melancholy monotonousness. One solitary amusement was there. Now and then some one reminded us of our former faith, how during our lives we had feared and worshipt a God. Then a loud burst of laughter, as at a most portentous absurdity, pealed through the hall.
"On a certain day these ladies, being, after all, women, disputed between themselves on a point of precedence. "Says the Goddess of Riches, jingling her diamonds: "'I come first with all. I am worshipt in every polite country, and even the blacks fight over the shells that are their coinage.
Silliness, animal passion, which intertwines itself with our seemingly tender feelings, which tricks itself out with blossoms, and then eats canker-like into them, to make them too shed their leaves, to trample that, which it called heavenly, in the mire, and far worse than the comparatively innocent beasts of the field, that are driven by a blind instinct without anything of volition to deface and spoil everything which but now it worshipt as holy.
There is a little God called Loue, that will not bee worshipt of anie leaden braines, one that proclaimes himselfe sole king and Emperour of pearcing eyes and chiefe soueraigtie of softe heartes, hee it is that exercising his empire in my eyes, hath exorcized and cleane coniured me from my content.
Our chief, whom England and all Europe, saving only the Frenchmen, worshipt almost, had this of the god-like in him: that he was impassible before victory, before danger, before defeat.
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