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"Almighty God! have mercy!" exclaimed Gerald, as overcome with shame and misery, he threw himself upon the earth at his full length, his head nearly touching the feet of the officer. Then clasping his feet "Oh! Colonel Forrester, lost, degraded as I am, believe me when I swear that I knew not against whom my arm was to be directed.
"Oh, I daresay he knows. Perhaps he relies on what everyone calls his 'influence. Nasty, sloppy word nasty sloppy thing! Whenever I'm 'influenced, I'm degraded!" The young shoulders straightened themselves fiercely. "I don't know. It has its uses," said the other tranquilly. Delia laughed radiantly. "O well if one can make the kind of weapon of it you do.
Poor man wretched, degraded drunkard as he had been he was by natural character a man of remarkable energy and decision; what he had fairly and fully determined upon, his resolution grasped like a vice.
He was unstrung, heavily plunged in the matter of his chagrin and grief: his unhealed wound had been scraped and strewn with salt by his daughter's letter; he had a thirst for the kind of sympathy he supposed he would find in the young Irishman's horror at the husband of the incomparable beauty now past redemption degraded by her hideous choice; lost to England and to her father and to common respect.
He remembered all that he had ever heard from Augusta Goold and her friends about the shameless trickery of English statesmen, about the insatiable greed of the merchants, about the degraded sensuality of the workers.
It's her duty to take herself back when she realizes that it no longer means anything to her, that her life is degraded by " "Rot!" Vickers exclaimed impatiently. He had scarcely heard what Cairy had been saying.
"A base renegade to natural affection, a degraded beggar indeed!" cried Leonard, his breast heaving, and his cheeks in a glow. "Mother, Mother, come away. Never fear, I have strength and youth, and we will work together as before." But poor Mrs. Fairfield, overcome by her excitement, had sunk down into Richard's own handsome morocco leather easy-chair, and could neither speak nor stir.
But as I am neither degraded nor wanting in homage to you, it behoveth you not to obstruct the performance by me of my sacrifice or to abandon me thus, ye foremost of Brahmanas, without adequate reason. I seek, ye Brahmanas, your protection! It behoveth you to be propitious unto me.
Before me I saw a woman as beautiful as Venus and as degraded as Lucifer; a woman most surely born to be the ruin of anyone who had the misfortune to fall in love with her. I had known women of similar character, but never one so dangerous as she. I determined to make some money out of her if I could. She called for cards, and asked me to play with her at a game called primiera.
"I shall be very glad," he says, "to learn that no evil hath befallen you during your visit to that solitary plague-spot, where dwell the disgraceful and degraded 'Moonlighters. Would not 'martial law, if applied to that particular spot, suffice to stamp out, these-insensate pests of society?" For my correspondent is not only a priest, but a Nationalist.
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