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Every human being who has the slightest pulse of sentiment, who is not sunken in the soddenness of moral unconsciousness feels that death is the shadow shutting out the sun of day and hiding the stars of night, the false note that breaks the lilt in any song, the thief who takes the treasure no money can replace, the mocker who bids us readjust our days and live as though those whom we have loved and lost had never been a part of us, so that their going has put more of death in those of us who remain to live than life even the brute beast feels and knows death is an enemy.
'Wine is a mocker; strong drink is raging; and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Did you drink the two bottles?" "No, sir; only part of one bottle," replied Shuffles, with commendable promptness. "Where is the rest of it?" "Under my berth-sack." "Are you willing I should take possession of it, and hand it to Mr. Lowington?" "I will agree to anything which you think is right."
Forth with you for a mocker and a gangrel loon!" speaking in our common Scots, "and herd with the base thieves from whom you came, coward and mocking malapert!" The storm had fallen on my head, even as I feared it must, and I stood as one bereft of speech and reason.
I felt sorry for him, and told him I had been fearful all along that he would get into trouble by going away from me so much, and associating with the chaplains of the other regiments, but I had never supposed it would come to this. "Wine is a mocker," said I, becoming warmed up, "and none of us can afford to tamper with it.
In the fall, when Clinton was fifteen, his health began to fail noticeably, and Dr. Bemis advised a little wine "to build him up." "Mother," said the boy, after thinking it over, "I am not going to touch any wine. I can get well without it, I know I can. I do not want liquor," he continued. "'Wine is a mocker, you know.
'The Providence of God has long been scattering them to New York. 'Yes, four hundred thousand in one square mile. A pretty scattering! Sir Asher flushed angrily. 'But they go to the Argentine too. I heard of a colony even in Paraguay. 'Where they are preaching the Unity to the Indians. 'I do not discuss religion with a mocker. We are in exile by God's decree we must suffer.
"Can't!" cried an echo close at hand. "Fly!" suggested a distant mocker. Thad closed his mouth and sat down. He had moved very cautiously, for he knew that these sink-holes are often the entrance of extensive caverns, and that there might be a deep abyss on any side.
"Yes, a friend indeed! your adventures are always uppermost in his thoughts. Your fine duel with Monsieur de Coutenan about the pretty little pin-maker, he even spoke of it to the King. Adieu, my dear Abbe, we are in great haste; adieu, adieu!" And, taking his friend's arm, the young mocker, without listening to another word, walked rapidly down the gallery and disappeared in the throng.
The old mocker, Chamberlain Wiesenthau, was right when he told her and her father that morning that the gay Swiss had been transformed by the miracle which had befallen him, like the Saul of holy writ, in the twinkling of an eye, into a Paul. The calendar-makers were already preparing to assign a day to St. Schorlin.
In this manner he moved away for some distance, then flew to the round of the chair, the seat, the arm, the back, and so on till he reached the ladder again. Then for the first time the thrush changed his position and rose to his feet, when, without the least warning, the mocker flung himself madly after him, and the thrush, unprepared, ran, with a sharp cry.
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