On the contrary he regarded her with tender
adoration as something unattainable.
Have you any idea yet, of Estella's views on the
adoration question?"
He had good reason to believe in the vanity of human greatness; and he asked himself whether, in this country,
adoration did not sometimes go to the length of eating the object adored!
But, though the world scouts at us whale hunters, yet does it unwittingly pay us the profoundest homage; yea, an all-abounding
adoration! for almost all the tapers, lamps, and candles that burn round the globe, burn, as before so many shrines, to our glory!
As it seemed to me at the time, such a grand embodiment of
adoration of the gods was never beheld, even in Persia, the home of the fire worshippers.
Tom stood a moment, to gather his dismem- bered faculties; and when he stepped forward to go to his punishment the surprise, the gratitude, the
adoration that shone upon him out of poor Becky's eyes seemed pay enough for a hundred floggings.
Overwhelmed by a spasm of drunken
adoration, he drew two or three bills from his pocket, and, with the trembling fingers of an offering priest, laid them on the table before the woman.
He wrote no more letters, he gazed no longer in rapt
adoration, he brought no more votive offerings of gum and pencils to her shrine.
Drawing as many as 25 women, the
adorations have been going on for the past three months in a community that has seen one of the highest number of drug suspects killed since the President launched a bloody campaign against narcotics upon assuming office in June last year.
