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"Ah," stammered Psyche. "All the day long he is gone, hunting upon the mountains." "But what does he look like?" they asked; and Psyche could find no answer. When they learned that she had never seen him, they laughed her faith to scorn. "Poor Psyche," they said. "You are walking in a dream. Wake, before it is too late.
So, when Lionel uttered those terrible words when she found that he had seen her she never dreamed of freeing herself from blame, and telling the story of her sister's fault. His words were bitterly cruel; they stung her with sharp pain. She had never seen contempt or scorn before on that kindly, honest face; now, she read both. Yet, what could she do?
God in heaven! to think that once you were Thomas Bolle," and she made as though to go away. He stretched out his great arm and caught her by the robe, exclaiming "What would you have me do, Emlyn? I can't bear your scorn. Take it off me or I go kill myself." "That's what you had best do. You'll find the devil a better master than a foreign abbot. Farewell for ever." "Nay, nay; what's your will?
Nothing should cow him, no touch from a policeman, no warrant from a magistrate, no defalcation of friends, no scorn in the City, no solitude in the West End. He would go down among the electors to-morrow and would stand his ground, as though all with him were right. Men should know at any rate that he had a heart within his bosom.
Lately, circumstances, which have nothing to do with the general tenor of this Preface, have compelled me to strip this tale of the literary robe of indignant scorn it has cost me so much to fit on it decently, years ago. I have been forced, so to speak, to look upon its bare bones. I confess that it makes a grisly skeleton.
Filled with this desire I came to your highnesses; and after all who had heard an account of my proposed undertaking had rejected it with scorn and contempt as visionary and impracticable; in your highnesses alone I found judgment to believe in the practicability of my proposal, and constancy and spirit to put it into execution."
Against them was directed the hate of the dark forces of the "occult government" and at the same time the fierce opposition and scorn of men who called themselves Socialists and champions of proletarian freedom! There was treachery in the General Staff and throughout the War Department, at the very head of which was a corrupt traitor, Sukhomlinov.
I would disdain such a meanness. Beatrix would scorn it. Ah! Henry, 'tis not with you the fault lies, 'tis with her. I know you both, and love you: need I be ashamed of that love now? No, never, never, and 'tis not you, dear Harry, that is unworthy. Oh! Henry, she will make no man happy who loves her.
Her face flushed as she stood glaring her scorn. "The yellow streak took a long time in showin', but it's in you, all right, Pierre le Rouge." "You've hated me ever since the dance, Jack. Why?" "Because I knew you were yellow like this!"
A species of auto-juggernaut, with Marrineal at the wheel." "What rubbish!" said Miss Van Arsdale with amused scorn. "Oh, because you've nothing to ask or fear from Baal. Yet even you would use it, for your musical preachment." As he spoke, he became aware of Edmonds staring moodily and with pinched lips at Miss Van Arsdale.
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