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She might have been grateful, but the reflection that she had made a step to unlock the antechamber of her dearest deepest matters to an ordinary military officer, whose notions of women were probably those of his professional brethren, impelled her to transfer his polished decorousness to the burden of his masculine antagonism-plainly visible. She brought the dialogue to a close.
I asked. "I place myself in your hands, Mr. Dodd," he replied. "The world is very hard; I have found it bitter hard myself bitter hard to live. "In short, you support her?" I suggested. "I cannot deny it. I practically do," he admitted. "It has been a millstone round my neck. But I think she is grateful. You can see for yourself."
He would write to the bank before he went to bed, asking them to receive his step-son at once; and the letter should go by the first post next day. The discipline of the bank would be salutary and steadying. And this was a particularly grateful reflection a fortnight annually was the limit of the holiday allowed by the management to its junior employees. Mr.
Bertalda, on the other hand, showed herself grateful, humble and timid, without regarding her conduct as anything meritorious.
Then Adela felt very grateful to her neighbour, and acknowledged in her heart that he had been kind to her. "But he must be back on Saturday," continued the widow, "for he could get no clergyman to take his duty. Indeed, he has to take the evening service at West Putford as well." On the day following this, George Bertram arrived at the vicarage.
Great was the pleasure expressed when they found that I could swim, like themselves, without the aid of a tail, and I did and do feel grateful to these poor heathens for the promptitude with which they dashed in to save, as they thought, my life. I found my clothes cumbersome in the water; they could swim quicker from being naked. They swim like dogs, not frog-fashion, as we do.
She had wanted him to have something of his own, in case he ever lost his supposed heritage. He was grateful to her because, not loving him, she had nevertheless thought of his welfare and tried to provide for it. Mr. Reeves knew something about the value of Rose's jewels. She had not had many, he reminded Max.
During these visits my interest in Schleiermacher was awakened, for his grave he died in 1834, three years before I was born lay near our lot, and we often stopped before the stone erected by his friends, grateful pupils, and admirers.
"He must always be 'agin the Government." "We ought to be grateful to him," remarked the Philosopher. "What can be more uninteresting than an agreeable conversation I mean, a conversation where everybody is in agreement? Disagreement, on the other hand, is stimulating." "Maybe that is the reason," I suggested, "why modern society is so tiresome an affair.
It is true that you have given me shelter that you have fed and lodged me; but you have taken my entire life in exchange. What servant ever endured what I have endured? Have you ever treated one of your maids as you have treated me, your own flesh and blood? And I have had no wages; on the contrary, I was expected to be grateful since I lived by your tolerance.
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