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Seein' is believin'. I don't hold with it, but I don't deny as it ain't clever." "I'm glad you think it clever, Patty Martin," said a very gay voice in her ear. She turned almost in alarm, to be confronted by the most impudent-looking, and yet the most charming gipsy lass she had ever looked at. Mrs. Martin loathed gipsies. "None of your sauce," she said in an angry voice.
By Allah, an thou hold not thy peace, I will beat thee to death, O thou town filth!" When she heard this she loathed life and longed for death; so she turned to him and said, "O accursed old man, O gray beard of hell, how have I trusted thee and thou hast played me false, and now thou wouldst torture me?"
Such books were put into my hands, and I loathed them. I know now why when I grew up my gorge rose and my appetite turned against so-called classics. Their style was so much like the style of the books which older people wanted me to read when I was in my early teens. Such were the specious statements advanced by the oldsters.
Won't you tell me that you love me still? Darling! He almost sprang at her, his arms extended to clasp her. 'Stop! Her voice rang like a trumpet. She did not mean to submit to physical violence, and in the present state of her feeling, an embrace from him would be a desecration. He was now odious to her; she positively loathed him.
And when the inevitable end arrives the revolution who will be to blame in the sight of God, who will be gibbeted in public opinion? I! Prince Puppet!" "I thought you had despised public opinion," said Gotthold. "I did," said Otto sombrely, "but now I do not. I am growing old. And then, Gotthold, there is Seraphina. She is loathed in this country that I brought her to and suffered her to spoil.
Durand's face was first a thunder-cloud and then became crimson, but not on his own account: Durand was no fool to the ways of foolish women; his mortification was for Peggy's sake; he loathed the very thought of having her brought in touch with such shallowness, exposed to such vulgarity, and the charm of their rarely frank intercourse invaded by suggestions of silly sentimentality.
On the one side, touched by the highest evidences of esteem a brave and generous enemy could proffer on the other, annoyed beyond expression at the recollection of an interposition which had thwarted him in his fondest, dearest hope that of losing, at the cannon's mouth, the life he loathed.
But we may move into the city in the fall.... And Belle had to give up her music. We all have to chip in, you see!" "She mustn't give up her music. I shall send her," Isabelle said quickly, reflecting whimsically how she had loathed her own music lessons. Alice flushed, and after a moment's pause said deliberately: "Do you really mean that, Isabelle?" "Of course!
And all the while it revolted me, though it was so sickeningly easy and attractive. I loathed myself, but I went on with it. It seemed anyhow one degree better than that awful homesickness. And then one day, right in the middle of it all, I had a sort of dream. Or perhaps it wasn't any more a dream than Jacob had in the desert. But I felt as if I'd been called, and I just had to get up and go.
It was the clamorous longing of her heart to go after her father and to find him wherever he might be, and she did not care to consider anything else. Dame Charter added also her supplications. Her boy was with Blackbeard, and she wished to follow the pirate's ship. Even if she should never see Major Bonnet whom she loathed and despised, though never saying so she would find her Dickory.