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I don't know what will become of her." "She'll get a place somewhere." "Yes, I suppose so. But, I hope she won't refer to me for her character. I don't know what I should say, if she did." "If I couldn't say any good, I wouldn't say any harm, Ella. It's rather a serious matter to break down the character of a poor girl." "I know it is; for that is all they have to depend upon.
What is the harm if he does admire me if a smile from me or a touch of the hand can urge him to fresh effort? Suppose he does love me " Flossie interrupted. "How about being quite frank?" she suggested. "Suppose we do love one another. How about putting it that way?" "And suppose we do?" agreed Joan, her courage rising.
"It is fortunate for this jade of a mistress of yours, who dares to make a mockery of our goddess that she may steal her wealth, that I have sworn to save her from harm, daughter," he gasped at length, "else she had died, and swiftly. At least, the others remain to me," and he sprang to his feet. "Stay awhile, father," said Soa, catching his cloak, "what is your plan?" "My plan?
It don't do for me to sit still too long. Bad thoughts come fast enough at any time; but they come fastest when a fellow sits twirling his thumbs. Don't look so frightened, Madge; I'm not going to do any harm. I'm only going to look about me. I may fall in with a bit of luck, perhaps; no matter what, if it puts a few shillings into my pocket."
And indeed, being a woman, I didn't really much care whether they took me or not, if only I could love Jack, and know Jack loved me. "You must tell me everything this minute Jack," I said, clinging to him like a child. "I can't bear this suspense. Begin telling me at once. You'll do me more harm than good if you keep me waiting any longer." Jack took instinctively a medical view of the situation.
Nothing but sitting still and tilling the ground, as it were, in his thoughts there could surely be no harm in that? There was no other guilt he could call to mind just then; he was only coming back from his work in the forest, a tired and hungry woodman, going home to Sellanraa he means no harm....
"Between Mrs. Vanderbridge and the Other One?" Her look answered me. "You think, then, that she means harm to her?" "I don't know. Nobody knows but she is killing her." The clock struck ten, and I returned to my book with a yawn, while Hopkins gathered up her work and went out, after wishing me a formal good night.
"Ah," he thought, "how often and often, when he was a boy, I said things to him, and in his hearing, which must have done him harm. I might have led him right, and I led him wrong. Truly my brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground." The Miller of Hillbrook had a tough spirit and a hard heart, like many other people in the world.
Where's the harm, Amelius?" "I don't understand " "You're out there, my bright boy. I reckon I understand more than you think for. The wisest thing you ever did in your life is what you did this evening, when you committed Sally to the care of those ladies at the Home." "Good night, Rufus. We shall quarrel if I stay here any longer." "Good night, Amelius.
Troth, Barney of late's as civil a crature as there's alive; sure what you spake of was all my own fault and not his; I'll be back in an hour or so." "Well," said his wife, "there's one thing, Art, that every one knows." "What is that, Margaret?" "Why, that a man's never safe in bad company." "But sure, what harm can they do me, when we drink nothing that can injure us?"
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