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As for him, for the first week or two, he was peevish and low, fretting, I suppose, over his dear Annabella’s departure, and particularly ill-tempered to me: everything I did was wrong; I was cold-hearted, hard, insensate; my sour, pale face was perfectly repulsive; my voice made him shudder; he knew not how he could live through the winter with me; I should kill him by inches.
It may sometimes indicate a cold-hearted, calm assurance, assumed for selfish ends; while its opposite may be from a natural reserve or timidity of character." "But you don't mean to say, surely, that Mr. Perkins is such a one as you intimate?" "If I am correct in my observation, he is all that I have insinuated. In a word, he is, in my opinion, a mere money-hunter."
But now there was no need of sending it, for she was going to New Orleans herself. She would win him. He would yet be hers. On returning to the parlor after supper she seated herself close to her uncle, upon whom she lavished so many caresses that he wondered much what had come over her, and began to think that he was mistaken in supposing her to be cold-hearted and indifferent to him.
As they passed me, they told me to go to the kitchen, and stay there. What does it all mean?" Of course we did not know, for we had neither seen or heard anything unusual. "Well," said she, "they are all so much engaged up stairs, we can talk a little and not be overheard. I want to know something about the people in the world. Are they really cruel and cold-hearted, as the priests say they are?
Their dearest hope was to get leave of absence, so that they might live a few days in Majorca or on the Peninsula, far from the cold-hearted and virtuous isle, which accepted the foreigner only as a husband. Women! Those young bloods talked of nothing else, and seated at the long table, Febrer silently seconded their words and lamentations. Women!
"Don," for he could never say "John" "oh, Don, I am so glad that nasty naughty man is gone away. Take me home, Don. Take me home." It has been said of the wicked, "not even their own children love them." And I could easily believe that Carver Doone's cold-hearted ways had scared from him even his favorite child. No man would I call truly wicked, unless his heart be cold.
And, further exhibiting his youth in holding the individual responsible for the system of which the individual is merely a victim, usually a pitiable victim, he went to the opposite extreme and fell to denouncing her cold-hearted and mercenary like her mother, a coward as well as a hypocrite for, if she had had any of the bravery of self-respect, wouldn't she have been frank with him?
"I should think you rather a cold-hearted girl, who didn't like people and didn't mind letting them know it." "Oh, Cousin Kate!" "Or else, if I were more charitably inclined, I should think you a dull girl who did not take much interest in what went on about her." "Oh, Cousin Kate!"
Away with you," and she seized a stick to drive off the poor woman. Now, it was the turn of the beggar to answer back. Both had lost their temper, and the two angry women seemed more like she-bears robbed of their whelps. "Heaven punish you, you wicked, cruel, cold-hearted woman," cried the mother. Her two babies were almost choking her in their eagerness for food.
"Scharnhorst," he asked, breathlessly, "you have come to bring me important news, have you not? Oh, pray, speak! I am sure you have come to tell me that the time has come for rising against the French!" "No; I have simply come to see you," said Scharnhorst, smiling. "And you are in truth a cold-hearted friend to think any other motive was required than that of friendship."
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