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"She isn't coming back at all?" fell from his lips. "Of course she isn't." "Well, I'm blest if I thought you could be so unkind, Mrs. Clover." She was silent for three ticks of the clock, an odd hardness having come over her face, then, flushing just a little, as if after an effort, she smiled again, and spoke in her ordinary tone. "What had you to say about Polly?" "Polly? Polly be hanged!
And now, my beloved son, notwithstanding their hardness, let us labor diligently; for if we should cease to labor, we should be brought under condemnation; for we have a labor to perform whilst in this tabernacle of clay, that we may conquer the enemy of all righteousness, and rest our souls in the kingdom of God. And now I write somewhat concerning the sufferings of this people.
Shall we consider it an imperfection and weakness in her nature that she is not proficient in the school of military tactics, that she cannot go forth to the field of battle and kill, that she is not able to handle a deadly weapon? Nay, rather, is it not a compliment when we say that in hardness of heart and cruelty she is inferior to man?
On all occasions of strain since his boyhood there had been signs in him of a certain lack of constitutional hardness which his mother knew very well, but which his wife was only just beginning to recognise.
Do not let us refuse to our girls the divine hardness which is the very heart of a diviner joy and of that "fuller life" of "which our veins are scant," nor refuse for them and for ourselves the words of life: "As the Father hath sent Me into the world, even so send I you"; but be content to send them into the world to love, to suffer, to endure, to live and die for the good of others.
We shall be able to engage him to take us to Fort Malsun, and so to safety and civilization." "Oh!" laughed the girl, "are you so anxious to go back to civilization?" Stane's face suddenly clouded, and the old hardness came back to it. "There is no going back for me yet," he answered bitterly. "But you will return, some day," she answered quietly. "I have no doubt of that at all.
Perhaps this happened because the sumptuous and sombre melancholy of Shakespeare's thought was transmitted in phrases that refused it its proper mystery. But there was always a hardness, not always from the translation, upon this feminine Hamlet.
Another cement for glass is prepared from two parts of litharge, one of quick lime, and one of flint glass, each separately and finely powdered, and the whole worked up into a paste with drying oil. This compound is very durable, and acquires a greater degree of hardness when immersed in water.
Every detail of her surroundings pressed upon her: the tick of the clock, the slant of sunlight on the wall, the hardness of the chair-arms that she grasped, were a separate wound to each sense. "My promise " she faltered. "Your part of our mutual agreement to set each other free if one or the other should wish to be released." She was silent again.
Besides the unrelieved hardness of daily life the need, which never lifts from them, of making shift and doing all things for themselves there has always been another influence at work upon my neighbours, leaving its indelible mark on them.
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