[The Last Of The Barons Complete by Edward Bulwer-Lytton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Last Of The Barons Complete CHAPTER VII 15/18
Fear not, thou shalt repay him some day." "Take them, I say, and if the young man says thee nay, why, buy thyself gauds and gear, or let us eat, and drink, and laugh.
What else is life made for? Ha, ha! Laugh, child, laugh!" There was something strangely pathetic in this outburst, this terrible mirth, born of profound dejection.
Alas for this guileless, simple creature, who had clutched at gold with a huckster's eagerness! who, forgetting the wants of his own child, had employed it upon the service of an Abstract Thought, and whom the scorn of his kind now pierced through all the folds of his close-webbed philosophy and self forgetful genius.
Awful is the duel between MAN and THE AGE in which he lives! For the gain of posterity, Adam Warner had martyrized existence,--and the children pelted him as he passed the streets! Sibyll burst into tears. "No, my father, no," she sobbed, pushing back the money into his hands. "Let us both starve rather than you should despond.
God and man will bring you justice yet." "Ah," said the baffled enthusiast, "my whole mind is one sore now! I feel as if I could love man no more.
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