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As it was, it was hard enough; but she tried to conceal her sorrow from those to whose pain it would have added, though many a tear was secretly shed over even the old grey cat and the gentle petted cow, which were almost home friends. At last all the preparations were completed.

I did give him a Parallelogram, which he is mightily taken with; and so after dinner to the Office, where all the afternoon till night late, and then home. Vexed at my wife's not being come home, she being gone again abroad with M. Batelier, and come not home till ten at night, which vexed me, so that I to bed, and lay in pain awake till past one, and then to sleep. 23rd.

So he who dieth naturally often suffereth more pain rather than less, though he suffer it in a longer time. And then would many a man be more loth to suffer so long, lingering in pain, than with a sharper pang to be sooner rid.

Noel turned away from him to the window: She stood looking out, but saw nothing whatever. "I don't want it hidden," she said without turning round, "I want every one to know. It's stupid as it is stupid!" and she stamped her foot. "Can't you see how stupid it is everybody's mouth falling open!" He uttered a little sound which had pain in it, and she felt a real pang of compunction.

She was so very happy, indeed, that she did not seem to feel even the pain of her punishment. Veile could laugh and rejoice, but never did she forget to be silent. The seemingly happy days, however, were only qualified to bring about the proper time of trials and temptations. The beginning was easy enough for her, the middle and end were times of real pain.

You remember Corporal Thwaites you caught his horse, when he had his foot near wrenched off, going through the gate and his way of breathing through the under-row of his teeth the poor creature was in such pain that's just how she takes her breath. It makes her look sometimes like that woman's head with the snakes for her hair. This bothers me how is it you and Mrs.

"'Can you take me to any place where I can get a change of dry clothes, he says, 'without half a dozen people knowin' it? "He'd got up into a sittin' attitude by this time, and I could see that his right arm hung close by his side, and that he was in pain. "I pointed to his arm, and asked him what was the matter with it; but he only answered, very quiet like: 'Broken, my lad, broken.

What may a man lose in them, and thereby what pain may he suffer? And of all these things, uncle, you know well that I myself have some little, in respect of that which some others have here, but yet somewhat more than he who hath most here would be well content to lose. Now, for the body very few words should serve us.

He would have liked to talk all night of the unknown lady, and explain to Remy how superior she was even to her portrait; but Remy, beginning his functions at once, insisted that he should go to bed: fatigue and pain gave the same counsel and these united powers carried the point. The next day, on awaking, he found Remy at his bedside.

"If you had come to me, and told me of your temptation of your sin three years ago, I would have forgiven you then. I would have taken you back. I cannot now. Not willingly, not with the feeling that I ought to have." She spoke humbly, gently, as if aware that she was giving him pain. Her face was averted. He said nothing; and she turned and faced him. "Of course you can compel me," she said.