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That nurse Kennedy, I think you said, Doctor isn't yet out of her state of catalepsy; and you, Mr. Ross, have, I am told, experienced something of the same effects. I know this" here his eyebrows came down more than ever, and his mouth hardened "if I were in charge here I should insist on the patient having a different atmosphere; or I would throw up the case.
The minister, however, failed in his faithful attempt and well-meant endeavors, for the old man, then on his dying pillow, was greatly offended at the preacher, and told him that he did not thank him for trying to shake his faith in his dying moments. This neighbor of mine, and son of this old, hardened sinner, was greatly enraged at the preacher, and cursed and abused him in a violent manner.
The pork had browned and hardened at the edges, the gravy had spread, a crust covered the potatoes. When her father resumed his reading of the Banner and her mother went back into the kitchen she began to speculate rather resentfully and yet excitedly why it was that this adventure with a man, with Ditmar, made her look better, feel better, more alive.
He stood aside as Edward's glance passed on to Llewelyn and Howel, and it was plain that the monarch's face changed and hardened as he fixed his eye upon the twins. "Llewelyn Howel," he said, "joint lords of Iscennen, we wish that we had received the same good report of you that we have done of your brethren. But it is not so.
"Is the thing a lie?" she said. "What thing, child?" replied my father. "The thing he told me!" "Dillworth?" said my father. "Do you mean Hambleton Dillworth?" The girl put out her free arm in a stiff, circling gesture. "In all the world," she said, "is there any other man who would have told me?" My father's face hardened as if of metal. "What did he tell you?"
And we thought, after we heard you, maybe you could see him, get hold of him, and help us save him. He's all we've got. The rest are dead." Gordon looked away and his lips quivered. "You'll help us, Doctor?" "I'll do the best I can for you, my friends. It's such a sad old story in this town that one gets hardened to it till we see it in some fresh revelation of anguish like yours."
I assured him if I was with child, I would die for want of a midwife rather than name him as the father of it; and he assured me I should never want if I should be with child. These mutual assurances hardened us in the thing, and after this we repeated the crime as often as we pleased, till at length, as I had feared, so it came to pass, and I was indeed with child.
The young man had an idea he should never get used to that; it would always make him uncomfortable from the suspicion that people would think they had to and he would want to prevent it. Evidently his great colleague had toughened and hardened had made himself a surface.
When Jean Valjean left the Bishop's house, he was, as we have seen, quite thrown out of everything that had been his thought hitherto. He could not yield to the evidence of what was going on within him. He hardened himself against the angelic action and the gentle words of the old man. "You have promised me to become an honest man. I buy your soul.
They had ponchos with them, strapped to the mules' backs, and each carried a clumsy umbrella to shield him from the fierce rays of the sun; but our two adventurers soon became so hardened and used to the climate, that they dispensed with the umbrellas altogether.
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