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He had been rebuked by one to whom he rather ought to have brought self-knowledge and compunction, and she was sensitively alive to his want of charity. She had felt bitterly that she was left in ignorance and sin by one who had what she had not. She had accused him of being zealous enough to win her to himself, when he had shown no zeal at all to win her to her Maker.

"But who communicates no secrets to living man," said Randal, almost bitterly; "who, close and compact as iron, is as little malleable to me as to you." "Pardon me. I know you so well that I believe you could attain to any secret you sought earnestly to acquire. Nay, more, I believe that you know already that secret which I ask you to share with me." "What on earth makes you think so?"

"If you do anything to keep her alive you will," Beth answered. "Uncle James always speaks bitterly about elderly women; about old ones he is perfectly rabid. He seems to think they rob worthy men of part of their time by living so long." It was arranged before the party broke up that the doctor should drive Beth to Fairholm in the Benyon dogcart to lunch next day.

But the more bitterly we feel this, the more loudly we utter it, the stronger is the obligation we lay on ourselves to beware, lest we also, by a too hasty wresting of measures which seem to promise an immediate partial relief, make a worse time of it for our own generation, and leave a bad inheritance to our children.

For the moment she hated him as bitterly as if he had been all the world to her; but she carried off her mortification by a rather hysterical laugh. "Fancy you being engaged!" she said, by way of explanation of her merriment; "and to any one with the name of Matilda it's such a stupid sounding sort of name!" "It ain't at all; it all depends how you say it.

He said to himself he ought not to have spoken, and then he laughed bitterly, for he knew that all his strength could not have kept back the words, because they were true, and because the truth must be spoken sooner or later. He was hopeless now for a time, but he did not deceive himself. "I am not weak. I am strong. And if my love is stronger than I what does that prove?

I don't know how to resign her, even to Him," she said, weeping bitterly. "Nor I; but we will try to leave it all with Him. We will rejoice if she is spared to us; and, if not, we will be glad to know that she is so safe, so happy with Him gathered with His arm, carried in His bosom." "Yes, yes," she sobbed: "it would be only for ourselves we would need to grieve, not for her, sweet pet."

There was in the utterance of these words a solemnity at first terrifying to hear; but his voice in the last clause of the sentence faltered, and he took off his bonnet and held it over his face, and wept bitterly.

Elinor threw her arms about Miss Agnes's neck, weeping bitterly. "But is it really true? Is there not some mistake? Is it possible he felt so little for me? Oh, dearest Aunt! and Jane, too!" Miss Wyllys said that she knew nothing of Jane's feelings; but that the manner of both Jane and Harry had struck her several times as singular; though now but too easily accounted for.

You have told me often enough that I married you for your money; let me tell you now that I always bitterly repented the bargain; and if you were still marriageable, and had a diamond bigger than your head, I should counsel even my maid against a union so uninviting and disastrous. As for you, Mr.