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She came and sat by his side. "Philip," she said, "I am ruining you. Yes, I am corrupting you. I who would have had you so high and pure and you so pure-minded I am bringing you to ruin. Having me here is destroying you, Philip. No one visits you now. You are shutting the door on everybody.... I heard you come in last night, Philip. I hear you every night. Yes, I know everything.
And in all that time father and me, we couldn't make too much of her, me being that thankful to the Lord that He had let our dear come back to us; and never a word did she say to me of him that had been her ruin. But one night when I asked her, silly-like, and hardly thinking what I was doing, some question about him, father down with his fist on the table, and says he
"Yet I am unwilling not to attempt to hinder my old comrade from running to ruin." "You have quite enough on your own hands already," said the old Knight; "he would do far more harm in your troop than out of it, and try your patience every hour." "He is my old playfellow," said Eustace, still dissatisfied.
"'Where in the name of lifelong ruin are you to find Four Hundred?" Miss Cookham had mockingly repeated after him while he gasped as from the twist of her grip on his collar. "That's your look-out, and I should have thought you'd have made sure you knew before you decided on your base perfidy."
I know that in future we shall be completely alienated, but your friend Beulah will always rejoice to hear of your welfare and happiness; and if her warning words, kindly meant, have no effect, and she hears, with keen regret, of your final ruin, she at least will feel that she honestly and anxiously did all in her power to save you. Good-by.
I had been a master man away there in the north, with influence and property and a great reputation, but none of it had seemed worth having beside her. I had come to the place, this city of sunny pleasures with her, and left all those things to wreck and ruin just to save a remnant at least of my life.
If you keep your heart pure, and constantly think of the time which shall be fulfilled for each of us, to our ruin or to our salvation, you will pass unharmed through this great peril. I know it, I feel it." "But you do not know him," exclaimed Melissa, "and how terrible he can be! And Diodoros!
The reality is in the hard hearts and selfish tempers and undocile minds which, in the splendor or the squalidness of wealth, show the sad ruin of self-sufficient success, the pride of life. The pride of life kills out the life itself.
"But, you see, the knights would not submit to ride in the mire." "Then you must make them. What else have they horses for, while honester men than they trudge on foot?" "Make them?" said Waltheof, with a shrug and a smile. "They are all free gentlemen, like ourselves." "And, like ourselves, will come to utter ruin, because every one of them must needs go his own way."
As one gazes upon the peaceful picture of the mountain town, there is nothing to recall the frightful scene of destruction and ruin of only three years past. There is little to remind one of former times, until, having followed the broad, winding road for some distance, one suddenly comes upon a familiar sight.
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