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Why detail the harassments of the rest of that winter, during which The Dreamer led a strange double life a life in the public eye of distinction, prosperity, popularity, but in private, a hunted life a life of constant dread of the wrath of a too long indulgent landlord or grocer a flitting from one cheap lodgement to another. One gleam of genuine sunshine brightened the dreary days.
He was glad to escape for a breathing-while from the vexations and harassments that beset him, and looked forward with the eager interest of a sanguine and elastic mind always escaping from one scheme to another to his excursion into B -shire. At the villa of Mr.
If you do, it will be a real comedy! the case of a thief denouncing the officer who has caught him red-handed in the act of thieving!" With this parting shot, he made a violent exit. Perousse left alone, dismissed him, with all other harassments from his mind; for being entirely without a conscience, he had very little care as to the results of the King's reported intentions.
He took in all the burdens and the pains and the anxieties and the harassments, and the losses, and the bleeding hearts and the cares that can burden any of us. And he said, in spite of them all, 'Ye rejoice. Do you?
To those who had seen the gray pallor of his strained face yesterday, it appeared as if he had cast his skin during the night, and with it his harassments and haunting fears, and had come out this morning as fresh and unscarred as a child. Joe stood for a moment running his eyes swiftly over the room.
When the world thinks of Henry Fielding it thinks of "Tom Jones," it is almost as if he had written naught else. His health had already begun to break: and he was by no means free of the harassments of debt.
Harassments of a more vulgar nature beset her: she had forestalled her sources of income; she had contracted debts for Jasper's sake; in vain: her purse was emptied, yet his no fuller. His creditors pressed him; he told her that he must hide. One winter's day he thus departed; she saw him no more for a year. She heard, a few days after he left her, of his father's crime and committal.
Peter was an invalid, and the whole weight of the perplexing affairs of the failing firm fell upon the one who detested business, and counted every hour lost that he gave to it. His letters for two years are burdened with harassments in uncongenial details and unsuccessful struggles.
Under the circumstances, his debts determined his action, and to escape harassments he before long passed over into France and settled in Paris. In that capital, as in London, he mixed with the best society; and there, as before, the mode of life among his associates led him beyond his means and involved him in further distresses.
SUPPOSE your husband got impatient and annoyed with you because you did not seem to enter heartily into the interests of his work and sympathize with its cares and responsibilities and soothe him out of the nervous harassments. Would you not perhaps feel a little sore that he seemed to expect all from you and to give nothing in return?
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