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It seemed almost heartless to the boy to find these friends, so dear to him, able to conduct themselves in so matter-of-fact a manner while he was in the grip of his own life tragedy. But he could not blame them. He had assumed much which they had never granted. This last dinner together, made possible by his father's presence in New York, was intended as a lesson to him, and as Mr.
But still his mind never changed; still he plunged on across that trackless waste of waters. The men mutinied and one can hardly blame them; but he subdued them by his force of character, they saw in his eye that which told them that their leader was no common man, but one who would die rather than abandon his marvellous enterprise. And you remember the end?
He had been less in the wrong than any of them, and he was paying the heaviest penalty. She often felt that she herself had been more to blame than poor Frank. From the time the Shabatas had first moved to the neighboring farm, she had omitted no opportunity of throwing Marie and Emil together.
You can't be willing to let them be themselves." "But, Isabelle!" "Oh, I know what you are going to say about Vick. I have heard it over and over. John has said it. Mother has said it. Father looks it. You needn't bother to say it, Alice!" She glanced at her cousin mutinously. "John thought I was partly to blame; that I ought to have been able to control Vick.
I've got a stock on." "I said the Queen had. Besides, when you put your face up to mine just now " "Hush! Besides, you were looking me in the eyes all the time, so " "And, if I was, do you blame me?" "I'm not in the witness-box now, counsel." "No, but you're sitting on Pomfret's rug, and Pomfret is but the " She began to laugh helplessly. "Come along, Alice," I said. "'Yet so God made me.
I was naturally, I think a little irritated by his way of putting it. A man assuming to know more about love than a woman! Was there ever such a monstrous perversion of the truth as that? I appeal to the women! "You ought to be the last person to blame me," I said. "I had too high an opinion of you to suspect what was going on. I will never make the same mistake again I promise you that!"
These electric lights are so very uncertain these days, and I am sure James is not at all to blame for hitting me as he has done; it's the most natural thing in the world, only may I please run up-stairs and fix my hair again?" "You most certainly shall," said Henriette. "And I will go with you, my dear Emily.
"Do not blame me, William," she replied; "for I could not see you again go astray without, at least, making an effort to save you. And now will you not return with me to your home?" The other occupants of the room had thus far remained silent since the entrance of Mrs. Harland; but when they saw that Mr.
"A man must get used to the idea of dying, or he will die hard," replied the master-carpenter, for he saw that Jean Jacques' hands were not so tightly clenched on the lever now; and time was everything. He had already been near five minutes, and every minute was a step to a chance of escape somehow. "I said you were to blame," he continued. "Listen, Jean Jacques Barbille.
Deaths and marriages have made a solitude round them, and one really cannot blame their endeavours to make the waiting as easy as possible. As he remarked to me, "At my time of life freedom from physical pain is a very important matter." It must not be imagined that he was a wearisome hypochondriac. He was really much too well-bred to be a nuisance.
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