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How could it be otherwise? exclaimed the irrepressible Fanny. 'But, dear father, cried Little Dorrit, 'I don't justify myself for having wounded your dear heart no! Heaven knows I don't! She clasped her hands in quite an agony of distress. 'I do nothing but beg and pray you to be comforted and overlook it.
Of late years she has become a convert to socialism, much to the dismay and distress of her eminently respectable husband, and at the last Socialist Congress held at Breslau, took a very prominent part in the proceedings, arrayed in a blouse of flaming red.
To say good-bye " "Yes, I beg it, I implore it, I insist upon it," she interrupted him, feeling that her strength was almost gone. "You have said that you were willing to do me a service then leave me." She sank back in her chair exhausted. "My God! am I a brute?" he said. "Have I made you ill with my idiotic persistency? I will go. I will rid you of the distress and annoyance of my presence.
She was alarmed by an occurrence in the house which might have alarmed a stronger person, and was made ill by the distress and agitation. She brought me here in the first hurry of the discovery, though too late for me to be of any use to the unfortunate man. I have compensated myself for that disappointment by coming here since and being of some small use to her."
The doorbell rang clamorously appealingly. Through the long hall and the closed door of the room where he sat, he could hear some one knocking, and a faint voice calling. "Open, for God's sake, open!" It was a woman's voice, the voice of a woman in distress. Slowly Miller rose and went to the door, which he opened mechanically.
Elsie knew and this made her sympathy far deeper and more heartfelt that Adelaide had no consolation in her sore distress, but such miserable comfort as may be found in the things of earth.
We had no provisions whatever in this lay our chief distress. We could not freeze, for there was a good supply of wood in the tender. This was our only comfort. The discussion ended at last in accepting the disheartening decision of the conductor, viz., that it would be death for any man to attempt to travel fifty miles on foot through snow like that.
William knew what had passed, and from his heart lamented that his sister's feelings should be so cold towards a man whom he must consider as the first of human characters; but he was of an age to be all for love, and therefore unable to blame; and knowing her wish on the subject, he would not distress her by the slightest allusion. She had reason to suppose herself not yet forgotten by Mr.
Zuleika endeavored to comfort him, but all her efforts were fruitless. She, poor girl, was herself overwhelmed with her own distress, though she strove to bear up against it.
It will be remembered that the constant fall in prices from 1873 to 1896 had brought distress to the farmers of the West and had been one of the causes of the Populist revolt. After 1896 the process was reversed.
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