4/19 His brutal and unhesitating bluntness is a living reproach to the subtlety of my natural disposition. I fear him, and I hate him." "And you hope to hind an active coadjutor in me ?" said Ramorny, in the same supercilious tone as before. "But know, the artisan fellow is too low in degree to be to me either the object of hatred or of fear. We hate not the reptile that has stung us, though we might shake it off the wound, and tread upon it. |