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And Donkin, watching the end of that hateful nigger, felt the anguishing grasp of a great sorrow on his heart at the thought that he himself, some day, would have to go through it all just like this perhaps! His eyes became moist. "Poor beggar," he murmured. The night seemed to go by in a flash; it seemed to him he could hear the irremediable rush of precious minutes.
For twelve years she had been a widow, and now that she was wealthy and the charm of cavalier society, she began to entertain some serious thoughts of doffing her widow's weeds. "It's all because of that cavalier Hugh Price", said Ann Linkon spitefully. "The hateful thing will wed him, because he is rich and the king is restored."
Patricia was horribly frightened. "And afterwards the jackass-fool made matters worse by calling me 'his darling. There is no more hateful word in the English language than 'darling. It sounds like castor-oil tastes, or a snail looks after you have put salt on him." The colonel deliberated this information; and he appeared to understand.
You can imagine what it would be when that last loophole of escape, upon which we all rely perhaps unconsciously was closed, when you knew you never could return; when you came to be shut out from hope, a prey to remorse, a tired victim compelled to pursue excitement, and always to pursue it, descending all the time, and finding it escape you more and more till at last even that hateful resource was lost to you, and you found yourself at the end of the road to perdition, a worn out woman, face to face with despair!"
His life? And if that life happened to be a mere broken and useless thing a hateful thing would he not gladly and proudly fling it away? One long, lingering, despairing kiss, and then a deep draught of Death's black wine! One day he was riding down to the fishing-station, when he met John MacIntyre, the postman, who handed him a letter, and passed on.
"My work keeps me rather a prisoner," she explained, "and after these hot days one hasn't much energy left." "You are still working at the tailoring?" She nodded. "I like to be in the midst of it all, but this weather I am almost afraid I shan't be able to go on. The atmosphere is hateful. It seems to draw all the life out of one." He glanced over her shoulder at the work she had been doing.
The hired man, under Daddy's direction, drew the bob-sleighs into position on the sunny side of the corn-crib, and arranged the barrel at the proper slant while the old man ground his knives, Milton turning the grindstone another hateful task, which Daddy's stories could not alleviate. Daddy never finished a story.
To-day his other wives seemed hateful, even loathsome, to him. From Cambyses' earliest youth his house had been carefully provided with women.
I do not, you will observe, suggest any act of disobedience on your part; on the contrary, I am of opinion that you should suffer everything short of the last resort, by which I mean this hateful marriage with Dunroe, sooner than abandon your father's roof. This union is a subject on which I must see him again.
Then he saw her, sitting motionless out there by the uncurtained window. He went over to her, and began his hateful formula: "I'm afraid you've been lonely. I had to stay rather late. A dull evening." And, since she did not move or answer, but just sat there very still and white, he forced himself to go close, bend down to her, touch her cheek; even to kneel beside her.
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