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I love you as dearly as I love Aunt Helen; and if I had not promised to spend the summer with her I should be delighted to go with you. Do not repulse me. I have so few relatives to care for me, and I shall be very unhappy if you go away angry." But she refused to be mollified.
And he started at a pace so rapid that the others could hardly keep him in sight. After the first repulse of the crowd, Offitt, Bott, and a few more of the Bread-winners, together with some of the tramps and jail-birds who had come for plunder, gathered together across the street and agreed upon a diversion.
I hear you have a vacancy for a manager." "Nothing of the sort. I am manager." Hope drew back despondent, and his haggard countenance fell at such prompt repulse. But he summoned courage, and, once more acting genial confidence, returned to the attack. "But you don't know, sir, in how many ways I can be useful to you.
Haughty, yet trembling to every demonstration of respect; ambitious, but too proud to shew his ambition; willing to achieve honour, yet a votary of pleasure, he entered upon life. He was met on the threshold by some insult, real or imaginary; some repulse, where he least expected it; some disappointment, hard for his pride to bear.
Accordingly, so soon as the deputies in France had received their definite and somewhat ignominious repulse from Henry III. and his mother, the English government lost no time in intimating to the States that they were not to be left without an ally.
The surliness of the repulse made it quite effective, and the four Iroquois sat for several minutes as if undecided what they ought to do after such an interview. Lena-Wingo knew that he was in great peril, for he believed from the first that the others were not satisfied with the appearance of things.
It is the European developing the resources of his industry, to contend at once with an unproductive land and the dangers created by his enemies. Selkirk has no enemies to repulse, and he inhabits a fruitful country. He needs, before every thing else, the presence of man, one of those fraternal affections in which he refuses to believe. His sufferings originate in his very solitude.
"About where and when Colonel Carteret may have got them for me, I know nothing," she returned. "He left them to be given to me last night after he went." She unclasped the necklace. "They are very lovely pearls, aren't they? Pray look at them if you care to, Henrietta," she said. Thus at once invited and repulsed for that it amounted to a repulse she could not but acknowledge Mrs.
The Indians had suffered heavily, and were too dispirited, both by their loss, and by their last repulse, to attempt further to harass either this detachment or the main army itself on its retreat. Practical failure of the expedition. Nevertheless, the net result was a mortifying failure.
She did not realize how completely the instinct that he was estranged from her had prepared her for the thing that always accompanies estrangement. Between the perfect accord, that is, the never realized ideal for a man and a woman living together, and the intolerable discord that means complete repulse there is a vast range of states of feeling imperceptibly shading into each other.
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