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You've got Arthur Sinclair. You shan't take him away!" The two girls, shaking with fury, were facing each other, were looking into each other's eyes. "If Sam Wright told you he loved you," said Ruth, with the icy deliberateness of a cold-hearted anger, "he was trying to to make a fool of you. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. We're trying to save you." "He and I are engaged!" declared Susan.
And he was too much startled and impressed ugly, cold-hearted little wretch though he was by the sight before him to notice the strange, half-triumphant, half-defiant expression on Diana's dark beautiful face. "There they are," it seemed to say, "and could anything be lovelier? Wouldn't you like to have them?"
That wasn't abrupt, was it? But oh, that kitty's tail! I forget how many inches and a quarter longer than any other kitty's tail in this state! And they are not cold-hearted, I mean cats, I promised to tell you." Here followed an account of the two cat-sisters, who loved each other better than girl-sisters. "And think of one of them dying of grief, the sweet thing!
"We have come to it, and must face the truth." "Well, of course I'll try," said Zell with something of Laura's apathy. Then with a sudden burst of passion she clenched her little hands and cried: "I hate him, the cold-hearted wretch, to treat his poor little Zell so shamefully!" and she paced up and down the room with inflamed eyes and cheeks.
They all walked to the school together, and said good-by upon the steps. The girls would not cry, but they clung very tightly to papa, and put as much feeling into their last kisses as would have furnished forth half a dozen fits of tears. Lilly might have thought them cold-hearted, but papa did not; he knew better. "That's my brave girls!" he said. Then he kissed them once more, and hurried away.
And you'll send me a newspaper with the full account of all that's done to him when you've set the law to work dod! I hope they'll quarter him! Them was grand days when there was more licence and liberty in punishing malefactors oh! I'd like fine to see this man put into boiling oil, or something of that sort, the cold-hearted, murdering villain! You'll be sure to send me the newspaper?"
They had the reputation of being far wealthier than they were, and many a girl would have been well pleased to make a match with Jim Rooney. But he turned his back on all social overtures, and by and by he got the name of being a sour old bachelor, 'a cold-hearted naygur, going the way of his father before him.
I see clearly that it's the best thing I could do. Whether Vawdrey's ideas come to anything or not, I shall make profit out of the journey; I mean to write, I think it's all I can do to any purpose, and the material I shall get together over there will give me a start. Don't think I am cold-hearted because I talk in this way; if I broke down, so much the worse for both of us.
On such occasions, if the Squire happened to have been as devoted as usual to his brandy flask, he would shed copious tears, which many instanced as a proof that he was neither selfish nor cold-hearted.
'My fair one was not made for sights like this; and were she here' his lip trembled 'I might bear me less as a Christian man should. My sweet Catherine! Take care of her, John; she will be the most desolate being in the world. John promised with all his heart; though pity for cold-hearted Catherine was not the predominant feeling there.
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