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The Ashes fell in with acquaintance a fashionable and harassed mother, on the fringe of the Archangels, accompanied by two daughters, one pretty and one plain, and sore pressed by their demands, real or supposed. The parents were not rich, but the girls had to be dressed, taken abroad, produced at country-houses, at Ascot, and the opera, like all other girls.
"Lucy," she said, "I think I have been very naughty, but they made me so." I said, as I kissed her, that I thought "they" had done so. "He would not have let anybody make him so," she said. "I was the bad one. I was almost unfaithful. I told him so to-day." "Not unfaithful, dearest, only harassed and miserable beyond all bearing." "Nothing is beyond bearing.
The words were spoken with an impatient emphasis to which Mary did not venture a reply. But she could not restrain an expression in her gray eyes which was a balm to the harassed combatant beside her. They said no more of Hester. And presently Mary's hunger for news of the Reform Movement could not be hid.
Infusing his own spirit into a little army collected from the villages of Syria and the tents of the desert, he hovered round the Persian host, harassed their retreat, carried off part of the treasure, and, what was dearer than any treasure, several of the women of the great king; who was at last obliged to repass the Euphrates with some marks of haste and confusion.
'I only wished to have things like other men, he said in a phrase of pathetic simplicity, at the end of his few short months of wedded happiness; 'I have had but sorry success. Harassed by small persecutions, beset by paltry debts, passing months in loneliness and in indigence, he was yet so possessed, not indeed by the winged dæmon of poetic creation, but by the irrepressible impulse and energy of production, that the power of his intellect triumphed over every obstacle, and made him one of the greatest forces in the wide history of European literature.
It is pleasing to see their harassed efforts to emerge from a labyrinth whence there is absolutely no means of egress.
He made room for Barry on his own blanket, and his deep rumbling voice droned in the skipper's ear, gradually soothing that harassed shipmaster until he subsided to the influence of the beneficent Goliath. "Soon I shall tell you, Captain," said Houten. "Yoost now I say all iss vell, ja.
In three months he was penniless, but he did not begin trade again until he had recrossed the Channel, and, having got to work near Chester, he returned to the Piazza fat with bank-notes. With success his extravagance increased, and, living the life of a man about town, he was soon harassed by debt.
She would lose his friendship anyhow, when that occurred, but meanwhile she would have the letters a little longer. She could not learn to live without them until she had to. The correspondence slipped back into its old groove. The harassed look which Alma's face had worn, and which Exeter people had attributed to worry over Anna, disappeared.
Even there, he was constantly harassed with the idea that, the next time he lifted his eyes, he would to a certainty see that face, the most repulsive to all his feelings of aught the earth contained.
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