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Dan pitied him more than he dared to show, and this one tender emotion in that dark time was like the little flower that sprung up between the stones of the prison yard and saved the captive from despair, in the beautiful old story.
For a long time the boat danced on the waves and finally it came near a large merchant vessel, which struck against it with such a shock that Ivan awoke. The crew on the large vessel saw Ivan and pitied him. So they decided to take him along with them and did so. High, very high, above in the sky they perceived cranes. Ivan said to the sailors: "Be careful; I hear the birds predicting a storm.
"Anything takes time, and we can't expect to leap into perfection at once, but what did you do after he had passed?" asked Grace, with some curiosity. "I pitied the poor creature and wondered what made him so." "That was the very way to keep him in the same condition," said Grace, rapidly mixing some paint.
But by the end of two months, tortured by a fever of impatience, and in a state like that produced by acute home-sickness, the Baron, amazed to find his millions impotent, grew so thin, and seemed so seriously ill, that Delphine had secret hopes of finding herself a widow. She pitied her husband, somewhat hypocritically, and kept her daughter in seclusion.
Oh, you are not so much to be pitied for that," said Sir Wilfrid, smiling. "Many people would exchange their youth for your old age." "Then the world contains more fools than even I give it credit for!" said Lady Henry, with energy. "Why should any one exchange with me a poor, blind, gouty old creature, with no chick or child to care whether she lives or dies?"
Then Alice Mendon, who disliked Margaret Edes and had a shrewd conjecture as to the state of affairs, but who was broad in her views, pitied Margaret.
And even when the Christian and theologian got blended, as they did, to some extent, in such men as Baxter and Wesley, I pitied the theologian while I esteemed and loved the Christian. Theological works are poor contemptible things. It would have been no great loss to the world if nineteen-twentieths of them had been burnt in the Chicago fire.
Humpage complied, and when he finished for the second time, his hearer's face was purple and distorted, and Mabel pitied him from her own experience. 'Dear Mr. Lightowler, she said, 'you mustn't blame Mark; he had no choice, he had promised. 'Promised! Uncle Solomon almost howled; 'what business had he got to make a promise like that?
Into the hands of this worthy man our Hubert had fallen, and even his hopeful temperament always buoyant under misfortune could not prevent him from sharing the despondency he had so pitied, and a little despised.
Nevertheless she pitied him for being, or for having been, so exclusive in love. And she wondered at him not a little. Lit-up caiques glided out on the bay far beneath her. A band was playing on the quay. She wished it would stop, and she glanced at a little watch which Aristide Dumeny had given her, and which was pinned among the dark blue folds of her gown.
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