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Pitying his situation, the reverend gentleman, who was patiently awaiting the return of Caesar, changed the discourse, and a few minutes brought the black himself. The billet was handed to Dr. Sitgreaves; for Miss Peyton had expressly enjoined Caesar not to implicate her, in any manner, in the errand on which he was dispatched.
Mrs Austin was much to be pitied; she knew how much her husband suffered; how the worm gnawed within; and, having that knowledge, she submitted to all his harshness, pitying him instead of condemning him; but her life was still more embittered by the loss of her child, and many were the bitter tears which she would shed when alone, for she dared not in her husband's presence, as he would have taken them as a reproof to himself.
He saw the Saviour face to face with the eye of flesh. Even those mysteries of religion which are the hardest trial of faith were in his case palpable to sight. It is difficult to relate without a pitying smile that, in the sacrifice of the mass, he saw transubstantiation take place, and that, as he stood praying on the steps of the Church of St.
His manner was judicial but not repellent. "Mebbe I could mebbe I couldn't," he said. "You sure you ain't got two cents more in that other pocket, hey?" The Wilbur twin searched, but it was the most arid of formalities. "No, sir; I spent it all." "Spent all his money!" remarked the dog seller with a kind of pitying contempt, and drew off toward the door.
Knowing by experience that interference would be hopeless, under these circumstances, Miss Garth turned sharply and left the room. She smiled when she was outside on the landing. The female mind does occasionally though not often project itself into the future. Miss Garth was prophetically pitying Magdalen's unfortunate husband.
It's all the same, my Irish friend, continued the dominie, pitying my ignorance. 'I have no great desire, Mr. Dominie, said I, 'now, for controversy, being fatigued after my hard day's work; though it takes but little learning to refute your profound logic.
"You wouldn't dare!" he whispered thickly. "You wouldn't dare! I'd tell the story of of what you tried to make me do, and they'd send you up for it." Old Isaac shrugged with pitying contempt. "Is it, after all, a fool I am dealing with!" he sneered. "And I what should I say? That you had stolen the stones from your employer and offered them as a bribe to silence me, and that I had refused.
If you consider, I said, that when in misfortune we feel a natural hunger and desire to relieve our sorrow by weeping and lamentation, and that this feeling which is kept under control in our own calamities is satisfied and delighted by the poets;-the better nature in each of us, not having been sufficiently trained by reason or habit, allows the sympathetic element to break loose because the sorrow is another's; and the spectator fancies that there can be no disgrace to himself in praising and pitying any one who comes telling him what a good man he is, and making a fuss about his troubles; he thinks that the pleasure is a gain, and why should he be supercilious and lose this and the poem too?
Let therefore the envious laugh at the pains I have taken; for my part, I shall laugh, not at their ignorance, envy, and laziness, but at their deplorable cleverness, pitying their passions and recommending them to the serpents from which envy draws its venom.
"I guess I have laughed enough," was the prudent thought of the boy, who straightway tried to look as if he sympathized with the red man for his slight misfortune. Jack could not tell how well he succeeded in imparting a pitying expression to his countenance, but all disposition to laugh at the warrior's mishap had departed, and it is not improbable that the youth owed his life to the fact.
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