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"My lord," replied the parasite, "I do not pretend to be any great casuist in these matters. His honour of San Severino does I know seldom give way to scruples of this kind. But in the instance I have mentioned there are several things to be said. The mother of the lady, who formerly moved in a higher sphere than she does at present, never maintained a very formidable character.
Yet he recalled the emaciated face and form, the cough, the trailing step, Miss Foster's anxiety, some comments overheard in the village. And if she died unreconciled, unhappy? Could nothing be done to help her, from outside, to brace her to action and in time? He pondered the matter with all the keenness of the casuist, all the naivete of the recluse.
My brother is well I have no feeling against Captain Moray on his account; and as for spying well, it is only a painful epithet for what is done here and everywhere all the time. 'Dear me, dear me, he remarked lightly, 'what a mind you have for argument! a born casuist; and yet, like all women, you would let your sympathy rule you in matters of state.
Nor would it be just to overlook the fact that in three or four pages the poet asserts himself as more than the prudent casuist. The splendid image of society as a temple from which winds the long procession of powers and beauties has in it something of the fine mysticism of Edmund Burke. The record of the Prince's early and irresponsible aspirations for a free Italy
Certainly, during this visit, Morley's scruples relaxed; but when he returned home they came back with greater force than ever, with greater force, because he felt that now not only a spiritual ambition, but a human love was a casuist in favour of self-interest. He had returned on a visit to Humberston Rectory about a week previous to the date of this chapter; the niece was not there.
There are many kinds of princesses, but this kind is the most harmful of all, for wherever they go they reconcile people to monarchy and set back the clock of progress. The valuable princes, the desirable princes, are the czars and their sort. By their mere dumb presence in the world they cover with derision every argument that can be invented in favor of royalty by the most ingenious casuist.
I believe that by comparison he saw in my father a better friend of youth. 'We shall not be the worse for a ghostly adviser at hand, my father said to me with his quaintest air of gravity and humour mixed, which was not insincerely grave, for the humour was unconscious. 'An accredited casuist may frequently be a treasure. And I avow it, I like to travel with my private chaplain. Mr.
"It is not for me to speak of my gifts save reverently and in profound and humble gratitude for that grace by which God bestowed them upon me. But I am accounted something of a casuist. I am a doctor of theology and of canon law, and but for the weak state of my health I should be sitting to-day in the chair of canon law at the University of Pavia.
My undershirt, therefore, I was entitled to regard as a purely natural advantage, as much so as would have been a greater length of arm, which, you conceive, does not obligate a gentleman to cut off his fingers before he fights." "I scent the casuist," said the Friar, shaking his head.
The passionate major, instead of being a mere Irish blunderer, was, without knowing it, a learned casuist; for he was capable of deciding, in one word, a question, which, it seems, had puzzled the understandings of the ablest lawyers of France, or which had appalled their conscientious sensibility. Alas! there is nothing new under the sun. "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise."
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