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'It's nothing against you; I assure you it's not. 'Then there is a woman in the case. Why should you not say so frankly? We are not bound to each other in any way, I'm sure. I believe I once asked you to marry me, and you refused! She laughed rather sharply. 'That does not constitute an engagement! 'You put the point rather brutally, I think, said Lushington.
I was in a difficulty. To say that I was in ill-health and about to resign my seat in Parliament and a slave to doctor's orders was one thing; it was another to tell her brutally that I had received my death warrant. She would have taken it much more to heart than I do. The announcement would have been a shock. It would have kept the poor girl awake of nights.
Met Captain Hamilton, who tells me a shocking thing. Two Messrs. Stirling of Drumpellier came here and dined one day, and seemed spirited young men. The younger is murdered by pirates. An Indian vessel in which he sailed was boarded by these miscreants, who behaved most brutally; and he, offering resistance I suppose, was shockingly mangled and flung into the sea.
It may be a consolation to many readers to know that the Loi Grammont now prohibits the misdeeds ignored by so-called ministers of religion in France; and it is a law, if not often, occasionally enforced with little ceremony. At Clermont-Ferrand, a few weeks later, a cab-driver was carried off to prison before our eyes for having brutally beaten his fallen horse.
"My family offer to submit to the marriage as a dire necessity lest my relations with Mr. Sibley cover them with a deeper shame?" "Well, in plain English, yes." "It is indeed extraordinarily plain English brutally plain. And does does Mr. Van Berg share in your estimate of me?"
He always spoke hastily, sometimes even brutally, and it even seemed as if he bore a grudge against his wife, for at times he answered her roughly, almost angrily.
"I should like to see you doing that," said Bartlett, rather brutally, "when you were down with a fit of yellow fever." "Or shut up in a mad-house," said Leslie. "Or working eight hours a day at business," said Audubon, "with the thermometer 100 degrees in the shade." "Oh well," answered Ellis, "those are the confounded accidents of our unhealthy habits of life."
He is too selfish to tell the truth and too impatient even to hear it. He cannot endure the truth, because it is subtle. This man is almost always like Bagstock a sycophant and a toad-eater. A man is not any the less a toad-eater because he eats his toads with a huge appetite and gobbles them up, as Bagstock did his breakfast, with the eyes starting out of his purple face. He flatters brutally.
Infinitely keener was the pang which Maurice experienced; he could not forgive himself, kept exclaiming how brutally he had behaved, and sank into gloominess. Not very long after, he took Narramore to walk in the same direction; they came again to the little shop, and Hilliard surprised his companion with a triumphant shout.
Well now, is a man who has had this reputation all his life, a man whom everybody trusts, very likely to go off the hook as suddenly as that and with no conceivable motive brutally kill the master he has served so faithfully? A man's future is in a large measure determined by his past." "That may all be true enough," I said, "but it is very possible that people were deceived in Mose.
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