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He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he shrinked and sheered away from whales, for fear of after-claps, in case he got stove and went to Davy Jones." "Peleg! Peleg!" said Bildad, lifting his eyes and hands, "thou thyself, as I myself, hast seen many a perilous time; thou knowest, Peleg, what it is to have the fear of death; how, then, can'st thou prate in this ungodly guise.
"O Giles!" gasped Roger, "O Giles!" "Roger, I I do love her, man I do love her, heart and soul! Is this so hard to believe, Roger, or dost think me rogue so base that true love is beyond me? 'Tis true I am unworthy, and yet I do verily love her, Roger!" "Wilt forgive me can'st forgive me, Giles?"
"On thy head be it if thou can'st not keep thy young fighting cock in order 'twill be all over the town by midnight!" Foster-father did not often let his temper get the better of his prudence, but he could not resist saying mildly: "Kingship is like the musk-bag, friend, that was broken at the royal child's birth. It diffuses its perfume over the habitable world, and none can mistake it."
But Luther insisted on the contrary: "Thou must not place thy decision on the Pope, or any other; thou must thyself be so skilful that thou can'st say, 'God says this, not that. Thou must bring conscience into play, that thou may'st boldly and defiantly say, 'That is God's word; on that will I risk body and life, and a hundred thousand necks if I had them. Therefore no one shall turn me from the word which God teaches me, and that must I know as certainly as that two and three make five, that an ell is longer than a half.
"I have little, as thou knowest, Carlo," said Gelsomina in a half-audible voice; "but it is thine. My father is not rich, as thou can'st feel, or he would not live on the sufferings of others, by holding the keys of the prison." "He is better employed than those who set the duty.
And so he will probably be unsatisfied, or at any rate incomplete, and even more incomplete than the student of humane letters only. I once mentioned in a school-report, how a young man in one of our English training colleges having to paraphrase the passage in Macbeth beginning, "Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased?" turned this line into, "Can you not wait upon the lunatic?"
CEPHISOPHON. Within, and not within: Can'st fathom that? DIKAIOPOLIS. How within, yet not within? CEPHISOPHON. 'Tis true, old fellow. His mind is out collecting dainty verses, And not within. But he's himself aloft Writing a tragedy. DIKAIOPOLIS. Happy Euripides, Whose servant here can give such witty answers. Call him. CEPHISOPHON. It may not be.
"Recruits if it please you, sir," said I, dismounting and pulling off my hat, tho' his insolent tone offended me. "S'lid! The boy speaks as if he were a regiment," growls he, half aloud: "Can'st fight?" "That, with your leave, sir, is what I am come to try." "And this rascal?" He turned on Billy. Billy heard not a word, of course, yet answered readily
Oh! my dear, thee must hate that man; thee must hate the ground he goes on; thee can'st not help it." That the prisoner replied, "Sir, your tenderness to me is like a sword to my heart. Every word you say is like swords piercing my heart, much worse than if you were to be ever so angry. I must down on my knees and beg you will not curse me." To which her father answered, "I curse thee, my dear!
"And can'st thou make it all smooth again, blacksmith, after such hard usage as it had?" "I think so, sir." "And I suppose thou can'st smoothe almost any seams and dents; never mind how hard the metal, blacksmith?" "Aye, sir, I think I can; all seams and dents but one."
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