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She turned her face aside. "Shall you tell Miriam?" she replied sarcastically. "I have broken off with her," he said. "When?" "Last Sunday." "You quarrelled?" "No! I had made up my mind. I told her quite definitely I should consider myself free." Clara did not answer, and he returned to his work. She was so quiet and so superb!
Why is it that we cannot quarrel with some men bearing certain names, while with far better men bearing other names we are always at swords' points? Who ever quarrelled with a man who had so endeared himself to the world, for instance, that the world spoke of him as Jack, or Bob, or Willie?
I suppose that what he had heard from them about a one living God, who had made all things in heaven and earth, and given them a law, which cannot be broken, so that all things obey him to this day I suppose, I say, that this pleased him better than the Roman stories of many gods, who were capricious, and fretful, and quarrelled with each other in a fashion which ought to have been shocking to the conscience and reason of a disciplined soldier.
"I don't know, John," she replied, "he's always missing appointments nowadays," and there was a pathetic droop about the childish mouth. "Haven't quarrelled with him, or anything, have you, Pat?" "No, John dear. It would break his heart if I were unkind to him or it would have used to. I mean it used to have would. Oh, you know what I mean. Once it would have.
And for the lands he really owned in Mexico and California, and which, if he were to live in comfort, it was necessary he should sell, he could find no purchaser; and, moreover, having quarrelled with his father-in-law, he had cut off his former supply of money. The need of it pinched him cruelly. The advertised cause of this quarrel was sufficiently characteristic to be the real one.
Stephen took things with much philosophy; his mother would, of course, drink herself to death what was there astonishing in that? He himself had heart disease, and surely enough would drop down dead one of these days; the one doom was no more to be quarrelled with than the other. Pennyloaf came to see them at very long intervals; what was the use of making her visits more frequent?
The brothers were usually on such pleasant terms that their silence to each other during the meal became a matter of remark to others beside Angela and Mrs. Luttrell. Had they quarrelled?
Bradford also rose, impelled by the urgency of her companion's tone, but wondering in her dull way what it was that made Laura turn so red, and seem so anxious to get away all of a sudden. Surely Laura could not have quarrelled with the Grahams? Then being very curious like the majority of stupid people she sat obstinately down again. "I must have a word or two with Mr. and Mrs. Graham," she said.
For it was the best house in the street, and, of course, the Doctors Robert and Francey Stonehouse would have to have the best. And once they quarrelled about nothing at all, or about everything they hardly knew. It was an absurd quarrel, which blazed up and went out again like fire in stubble.
It would be better to make an end of yourself you would at any rate know when and how, and choose the spot to aim at. Our friend Vassily, who gave us shelter here, is a lucky man. He belongs to our camp, but is so calm and quiet. He doesn't want to hurry over things. I should have quarrelled with another, but I can't with him. The secret lies not in his convictions, but in the man himself.
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