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I, a gentleman, a man of honor, engaged to one of the sweetest girls in England and yet in a moment of reasonless passion I nearly professed love for this woman whom I hardly know. She is far older than myself and a cripple. It is monstrous, odious; and yet the impulse was so strong that, had I stayed another minute in her presence, I should have committed myself. What was it?
Oswald hurried on, knowing that Randolph had to go through a bit of lip chewing before he could interrupt, and taking advantage of the fact to ride over objections. "We've got a kid that an expensive operation will save from being a cripple. I've consulted two top surgeons already, and they say it's nearly positive. "We don't do any hocus-pocus.
She turned dizzily toward Scylla. The little invalid the cripple was standing straight up, close behind her. For a second Martha doubted her eyes. The storm still raged, and she thought it was a vagary of the lightning. She held her hands out, though, and convinced herself that it was true. Scylla was standing on her feet, for the first time in many years.
No man of either faction stood with a more uncompromising sincerity for law and peace but Hump Doane viewed life through the eyes of one who has suffered the afflictions and mortification of a cripple in a land that accepts life in physical aspects. His wisdom was darkened with the tinge and colour of the cynic's thought.
'Alack, poor soul, said I, 'charity is in my heart, but not my purse; I am poor as thou. Then he believed me none, and to melt me undid his sleeve, and showed a sore wound on his arm, and said he, 'Poor cripple though I be, I am like to lose this eye to boot, look else. I saw and groaned for him, and to excuse myself let him wot how I had been robbed of my last copper.
"I have to be sensible," he said, chafing as the indignity of his position intruded itself more and more. "You know what it would mean . . . Paragraphs in all the papers . . . photographs . . . the news cabled to England . . . everybody reading it and misunderstanding . . . I've got my career to think of . . . It would cripple me . . ." His voice trailed off, and there was silence for a moment.
From the waist up he was clawed, bitten, and bruised so badly that he was a fearsome spectacle; his left arm was dislocated, three fingers of his right hand were broken, and his muscles were so wrenched that for a week afterward he moved like a cripple; but his present unconsciousness was largely due to exhaustion and partial asphyxiation.
A blind man standing by the door called loudly upon the passers-by to have pity on him, a cripple seated on the steps with rough crooked crutches by his side stretched out his hand for aid, and a fat dirty woman with a tiny babe in her arms whiningly cried, "poveretta mia! poveretta mia!" The regular services in the Cathedral were over when we entered, but many people were in the building.
"If what?" She was all alive now, flushing warmly, dark eyes alight, the girl of his dreams. "If you will forgive me if you will let me be your friend if Miss Huling, you will again wear that bit of Yale blue." "If, Mr. Wayne, you had very sharp eyes you would have noticed that I still wear it!" Willie Howarth loved baseball. He loved it all the more because he was a cripple.
My presents, which would have tempted any other girl in Alexandria to follow a cripple to Hades, she took as an insult; she positively cried with indignation, and I really respect pretty little Dada!" "She is my very own sister's child," Herse threw in, honestly angered by the cheap estimation in which every one seemed to hold her adopted child.
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