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Its emphasis on the complete subordination of the inferior to the superior was one of its conspicuous features. This was a factor always and everywhere at work in Japan. No individual was beyond its potent influence. Attention to details, absolute obedience, constant, conscious imitation, secretiveness, suspiciousness, were all highly developed by this social system.
Ah, how how should you know it?" And Dalibard so simply explained the occurrence, in which, indeed, it was impossible to trace the hand that had moved springs which seemed so entirely set at work by an accident, that despite the extreme suspiciousness of her nature, Lucretia did not see a pretence for accusing him.
In point of suspiciousness their behavior is very different at different times, as, for that matter, is true of birds generally. Seeing the flock alight in a low roadside lot, you steal silently to the edge of the sidewalk to look over upon them. There they are, sure enough, walking and running about, only a few rods distant. What lovely creatures, and how prettily they walk!
But, for the sake of our whole life's happiness, henceforward always be open with me, Agatha! Don't hide from me anything! Set your frank goodness against my wicked suspiciousness, and make me ashamed of myself, as now." He had not spoken so freely or with so much emotion since they were married; and his wife was deeply touched.
But this afternoon, or to-morrow morning anyway, I want to come down to Kerrigan's and call on you." "Wut about?" the boy demanded with an instant suspiciousness which was rather pathetic. "About you, Tommy. I have got a little plan in my head, and there isn't any time to talk about it now. What would you say to having a home with some nice people I know in another city in New York?"
Von Rittenheim grew composed as the Doctor rambled on. "She has not told you," he said, insistently, "of my so deep r-regret for the injustice that I made towards you. I can never do atonement for my br-rutal behavior, for my unjust suspiciousness. That you can take my hand shows much par-rdon in you." "Now, don't talk about that any more, Baron. It ain't worth it," Dr. Morgan replied, awkwardly.
'Mother, I said, in the state of wild suspiciousness concerning her and her motives into which I had now passed, 'I know what your words imply, that Winifred is not yet out of danger; the evidence of the curse and the crime can be dug up. 'I have no wish to harm the girl, Henry. You mistake me. 'Then, mother, we must not mistake each other in this matter, I said.
And then, with keen reproach, "That you, of my blood, of hers too, should be the one to cast such a stigma on her memory that you should be unable even to understand the nature of our intercourse.... Oh, shame, on you for your baseness, for your vulgar, low suspiciousness!... But, no, I waste my breath upon you, you do not believe this thing. You have outwitted yourself this time.
"And the loss will add to the gloom of his grave and brooding nature, render his restless scheming and wandering still more capricious, and increase his suspiciousness and irritability." "And the circumstances under which Antinous perished," added Eumenes, "will afford new ground for his attachment to superstitions." "That is to be feared.
Indeed, so far from reaching the idea of progress, the ancient Greeks at the very center of their thinking were incapacitated for such an achievement by their suspiciousness of change. They were artists and to them the perfect was finished, like the Parthenon, and therefore was incapable of being improved by change.
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