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She was fonder of the little Bridaus than she was of her grandson Bixiou, partly from a sense of the wrong she had done them, partly because she felt the kindness of her niece, who, under her worst deprivations, never uttered a word of reproach.
The which, good Christian, thou mayest do, and do acceptably, even though thou shouldest lie bed-rid all thy days; thou mayest also be sick and believe; be sick and love, be sick and fear God, and so be a blessed man. And here the poor Christian hath something to answer them that reproach him for his ignoble pedigree, and shortness of the glory of the wisdom of the world.
"You forget?" he spoke with the sweet extravagance of childish reproach. "Why, it was to show you I could!" "Oh, yes, you could." "And I can again." I felt that I might, perhaps, after all, succeed in keeping my wits about me. "Certainly. But you won't." "No, not THAT again. It was nothing." "It was nothing," I said. "But we must go on." He resumed our walk with me, passing his hand into my arm.
"But if it is all hypocrisy, if I find you a serpent that I have warmed in my bosom, you will be a wicked girl, an infamous creature!" "I think I have nothing to reproach myself with," said Pierrette, with a painful revulsion of her heart at the sudden change from unexpected praise to the tones of the hyena. "You know that to lie is a mortal sin?" "Yes, cousin."
"Well?" he asked, as he waited for her to continue. "Nothing. No, nothing!" She commenced to laugh, calling his attention to the end of the path, to a broader alley which brought them back to the edge of the lake, whose blue line they saw in the distance. "Blue on blue," she said, pointing to the sky and the water. "You reproach me for not liking blue, Monsieur le Ministre, see!
In the opinion of the holy Fathers, the rocks which were rent when Jesus Christ expired were reproaches to the Jews for the hardness of their hearts, and this reproach falls equally on Christians who are insensible to His sufferings.
"Thank you," said Mark, and could have eaten the word and his tongue into the bargain the moment he had spoken. This was blunder number three, and the worst yet! For so anxious was he to clear himself of the reproach of abasing himself before his head boys, that his next inquiries were made brusquely and snappishly. "And Barnworth?" "I am, sir." "And Stafford?" "I am, sir." "And Felgate?"
He was very pale and his eyes were fixed on the ground. "Wölfchen, come." "I cannot." His face never moved, and his voice had still the same monotonous tone which sounded so terrible to her. She sobbed aloud, and her eyes clung to her husband he must help her now. But he looked at her with a frown; she could plainly read the reproach in his face: "Why did you not follow my advice?
He may say what he likes reproach me as he pleases he is her father I have no other reply; but if you dare again to utter a word, I'll " and Clarence paused and looked about him as if in search of something with which to enforce silence.
Finally he said: "I will by no means constrain your will in this matter, Desire. I do not understand all your woman's megrims, but your mother shall not again reproach me with willingness to secure protection to my temporal interests at the cost of your peace and quiet. You need not go to this husking. No doubt I shall be able to bear whatever the Lord sends," and he went out.
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