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Here it seemed to Little Dorrit that a change came over the Marshalsea spirit of their society, and that Prunes and Prism got the upper hand. Everybody was walking about St Peter's and the Vatican on somebody else's cork legs, and straining every visible object through somebody else's sieve.
"From what I have seen so far," replied Lennard, "I have not the slightest doubt that it will." "And when may I see this wonderful discovery of yours, Mr Lennard," said Auriole, "this something which is going to be so important, this something that no one else's eyes have seen except yours.
Chichester suddenly hides her face behind her fan. "What a No!" says she to Captain Marryatt. "Did you hear it? What's the matter with him?" "He's jealous, perhaps," says Captain Marryatt. Mrs. Chichester gives way to wild, if suppressed, mirth. "Heavens! Fancy being jealous of one's own wife!" says she. "Now, if it had been anyone else's "
"What do I imagine?" cried the girl, irritated. "Why, all these are not your own ideas. They are someone else's." "Someone else's. Someone else's." She felt like saying something harsh; but broke down and became silent. Foma looked at her and, setting Medinskaya by her side, thought sadly: "How different everything is both men and women and you never feel alike."
The life of love is the life which does the best with the self for the sake of the whole; the sinful life is the life which is lived for the self at the expense of the whole. The desire for gratification at some one else's cost, or at the cost of the common life, is the root principle of sin.
Then he got away, and I found myself in your tent at last instead of my own, and later I fell over the tent rope and got another bump." "And what do you make out the fellow was doing in the doctor's cottage?" asked Harry. "Putting back the manuscript he had fixed up. He had written in the lines he thought were some one else's, and then he put it back.
By remembering that it's going to be there for always. What's in our hearts for one another, Nona, is no hurt to to-morrow or to next year or to twenty years hence, either to our own lives or to any one else's no hurt while it's only there and not expressed, or acted on. I've never told you what's in my heart for you, nor you told me what's in your heart for me. It must remain like that.
Flamel suffered his discourse with the bland inattention that we accord to the affairs of someone else's suburb, and they reached the shelter of Alexa's tea-table without a perceptible turn toward the dreaded topic. The dinner passed off safely.
Here the guard's horn, announcing all ready, interrupted our colloquy, and prevented my learning any thing further of my fellow-traveller, whom, however, I at once set down in my own mind for some confounded old churl that made himself comfortable every where, without ever thinking of any one else's convenience.
Fairfax, it was agreed that the late episode in his courtship should be kept quiet and not treated as final. Later in the day Mr. Fairfax carried his granddaughter home to Abbotsmead, not unconsoled by the reflection that he was not to be called upon to resign her to make bright somebody else's hearth. Bessie was much subdued.
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