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Upon the whole I think I may say with certainty that your reelection is sure, if it be in the power of the Whigs to make it so. For not giving you a general summary of news, you must pardon me; it is not in my power to do so. I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth.
"Only this Helen and I have mutually released each other from our engagement, and in the same breath have refused to be released. That is, if you understand " The barrister nodded. "The result is that we are both thoroughly miserable. Our respective fathers do not like the idea of our marriage under the circumstances.
"This was the first time I had ever felt that distress which arises from the want of money; a distress very dreadful indeed in a married state; for what can be more miserable than to see anything necessary to the preservation of a beloved creature, and not be able to supply it?
"You had better go now, my boy," said his father, kindly, "or you'll be late at work." Charlie went. I need not tell you that he had a miserable day. At night his father called him into his room and gave him as careful a description of his sister as he could to guide him in knowing her.
To get in touch with these conditions, take your machines as best you can over any of the miserable roads, or rather apologies for roads, until you get out into the highway recently constructed from Basset to Pomona.
"Why not put about the ship and sail away from them?" suggested Sorrel, looking round with a face so yellow and miserable that even the Captain was almost forced to smile. "Because that is simply impossible," said Fred Temple.
"This, Madam, is the belief and these are the hopes of thousands of Englishmen. They are, we are persuaded, even more universally the belief and hopes of the Women of England, whose hearts the complicated difficulties of politics and the miserable jealousies of national rivalry do not distract from the great principles underlying the contest.
Poor, ill-advised, ungrateful Armour came home on Friday last. You have heard all the particulars of that affair, and a black affair it is. What she thinks of her conduct now I don't know; one thing I do know she has made me completely miserable.
The lieutenant spoke in a sad voice, for he felt convinced that he had come too late to the aid of some unfortunate who had died in perhaps the most miserable manner in which man can perish. Henry Stuart did indeed lie on the raft a dead man to all appearance. Towards the evening of his third day, he had suffered very severely from the pangs of hunger.
Never did I feel more miserable; my anxiety for Harcourt was indescribable; true, he had not treated me well, but I thought of his venerable father, who pressed my hand so warmly when I left his hospitable roof of his lovely sisters, and the kindness and affection which they had shown towards me, and our extreme intimacy.
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