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She was afraid now that it was all too wonderful to be true, that she would awaken in the morning to find it only a dream, that she would somehow fall short of Martin's ideal somehow fail him somehow turn all this magic of moonshine and kisses into ashes and heartbreak.

"Right you are!" He ran lightly down the path where his brother-in-law stood waiting for him. She stood for a long moment looking down at the innocent-looking little blossoms on her table. And they could cause such heartbreak and desolation, ranking, as engines of destruction, with the frost and the hail! Could make such seasoned and tried women as Mrs.

Difficulties and troubles there will be in every life, and sometimes disaster and heartbreak, when the very earth slides from under the feet, yet, by calling upon the Power within, it is possible to rise from the ruins of cherished hopes stronger and "greater" through experience. Happiness and true success depend upon how the troubles and difficulties of life are met.

"She must be that and all," said Mrs. Reynolds, wholly sympathetic. They sat rocking then in silence. Suzanna was the first to speak. "Mrs. Reynolds," she began in a low voice. "I think I'll dress now, and after I've helped with the breakfast dishes I'll go and see my mother." The heartbreak in the small voice touched Mrs. Reynolds deeply.

When he found means to return to England he took with him the love of a maiden of the tribe, but the girl herself he left behind, comforting her on his departure with an assurance that before many moons he would return. Months went by and extended into years, and every day the girl climbed Heartbreak Hill to look seaward for some token of her lover.

Neither does it convey a due impression of the character in the different persons which, amidst the heartbreak, is ascertained with some such truth and impartiality as pervade the effects of "War and Peace."

These are the women who fly to convents, write bitter books, sing songs full of heartbreak, act splendidly the passion they have lost or never won.

He had known loneliness, the heartbreak and the longing of it, in the black and silent chaos of the arctic night; he had almost gone mad of it, and he had seen Pelliter nearly die for a glimpse of the sun and the sound of a voice. But this was different. It was something that ate deeper at his soul each day and each night that he lived.

You can only cause more misery, more suffering, more heartbreak " "It is a duty to the State, Miss Gresham. And, frankly, I cannot understand your attitude " "She has had enough " broke in Garry Gresham. "She's been through hell since that night." "I'm afraid, though " "Mr. Carroll you can call it off, if you will." Hazel Gresham rose and paced the room. "The case is in your hands.

The few farms and ranches round about were scattered widely, and life thereon was a grim struggle against heartbreak, by reason of the gaunt, gray, ever-present specter of the drought.