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No wonder the poor brutes were annoyed. Von Bloom suggested that they should drive the horses farther out into the plain, where these flies did not seem to haunt. He was only concerned about the annoyance which the horses received from them. Hendrik also pitied their sufferings; but Hans, alone of all the three, guessed at the truth.
The honour of a noble house for ever condemns his parentage to rest unknown. He is the offspring of a love unsanctioned by the church." "He is the more to be loved, then, and to be pitied victim of sin not his own!" answered Nina, with moistened eyes, as she saw the deep and burning blush that covered the boy's cheeks.
And Purcell is no more to be pitied for his sad life than to be praised as a conventionally idealised Mendelssohn. His life was brief, but not tragic. He never lacked his bread as Mozart lacked his; he was not, like Beethoven, tormented by deafness and tremblings for the immediate future; he had no powerful foes to fight, for he did not bid for a great position in the world like Handel.
Then I was suffered to go to my chamber, and there I passed the rest of the day prostrated by all that I had undergone. Truly I had come to a land of devils! And now I will tell how it was that I came to be saved from the knife. Marina having taken some liking to me, pitied my sad fate, and being very quick-witted, she found a way to rescue me.
And upon the whole, it would certainly have gone off wonderfully." "It was a hard case, upon my word"; and, "I do think you were very much to be pitied," were the kind responses of listening sympathy.
He asked how she could know that they were lodging in his house, and if he should send to meet her at any place where she was likely to arrive. "His mother," said Derues, looking compassionately at Edouard, who lay pale, motionless, and as if insensible, "his mother! He calls for her incessantly. Ah! monsieur, some families are greatly to be pitied!
She pitied him, and she tried to make excuses for him in her own mind: and with every thought of the penniless reprobate there was intermingled the memory of the wrong that had been done him by Henry Dunbar. "If my father has been guilty, that man is answerable for his guilt," she thought perpetually. Meanwhile she waited, Heaven only knows how anxiously, for her father's coming.
He knew that they could not see him, because the hat of darkness hid him; and yet he trembled as he sank down near them, so terrible were those brazen claws. Two of the Gorgons were foul as swine, and lay sleeping heavily, with their mighty wings outspread; but Medusa tossed to and fro restlessly, and as she tossed Perseus pitied her.
As "Packer John" Paul could have enjoyed, nay, loved this man; as his father, the sum and finality of his filial dreams, the supplanter of that imaginary husband of his mother's youth, the thing was impossible. And the father knew it and did not resent it in the least, only pitied the boy for his needless struggle. He was curious about him, too.
"You told him?" "Everything. Two nights before you went." He fell silent. His eyes left her face. Power seemed to leave him. "That tears it," he said. "That does for me." He was so utterly disconcerted that she could have pitied him. "So that's why he didn't want to hear me! No wonder. But why didn't he tell me that he knew it? I taunted him with not knowing."
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