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To any self-centered, self-absorbed woman there comes in her married life, unless she be married to a booby, a time, an hour, a moment even for it can be narrowed down to a point when she takes her first seeing look at the man upon whom she is dependent for protection, whether spiritual or material, or both. In her egotism and vanity she has been regarding him as her property.

Passing along the street, apparently self-absorbed, there seems little in this man to attract notice. Why does the scared newsboy hurry by, thinking of that strange face? Quickly the agitated countenance assumes a look of dignified indifference. A block away the boy resumes his calls: "All about the murder of a young girl! Body found in the river! Police on track of the murderer!"

The whole world is nothing to me, excepting as the place on which you walk. "I have seen the man the selfish, self-absorbed fool on whom you threw yourself away, six months after you had cast me adrift. At this moment he is my guest, snoring in an adjoining room while I sit up writing to you.

All this time Captain Frank King was intently regarding Mr. Jacomb; and Nan saw it. The smile died away from her face. She grew self-absorbed; she scarcely lifted her eyes. 'Nan, what's the matter with you? said her brother Tom to her, privately. 'You're not going to cry, are you? She looked up with her frank, clear eyes, and said

A suitor who plunges from lofty peaks of assured victory into failure falls far indeed; but Martin Grimbal stood little chance of suffering in that sort as his brother John had done. The antiquary spoke presently, fearing he must seem too self-absorbed, but Clement had little to say. Yet a chance meeting twisted the conversation round to its former topic as they neared home.

It was an evening in the declining autumn of 1758; some public ceremony had occurred during the day, and the crowd, which it had assembled was only now gradually lessening, as the shadows darkened along the streets. Through this crowd, self-absorbed as usual with them not one of them Eugene Aram slowly wound his uncompanioned way.

He never expressed publicly at least any preference for Royalism, Republicanism, or Imperialism; for fleur-de-lis, bonnet-rouge, or tricolore: in short, Jean Baptiste Véron was a stern, taciturn, self-absorbed man of business; and as nothing else was universally concluded, till the installation of a quasi legitimacy by Napoleon Bonaparte, when a circumstance, slight in itself, gave a clearer significance to the cold, haughty, repellent expression which played habitually about the merchant's gray, deep-set eyes, and thin, firmly-compressed lips.

Men, the world, Fate, Nature, God Himself, I believe, make us pay for love with the most cruel grief. I must pay for ten years of happiness and twenty-four years of despair, of ceaseless sorrow, of bitterness " "But you had ten years, dear mamma, and I have had but three!" said the self-absorbed girl. "Nothing is lost yet," said Adeline. "Only wait till Wenceslas comes."

And Dumont, unanalytic and self-absorbed, was amused whenever Pauline's gentleness reminded him of his mother's half-believed warnings that his wife had "a will of her own, and a mighty strong one." They were back at Saint X in August and lived at the Frobisher place in Indiana Street almost as pretentious as the Dumont homestead and in better taste. Old Mrs.

To-night he realised with a sort of shame that there were moments he was glad that they were only moments when he felt uneasily yet strongly attracted to Enid Crofton, and that though he knew how selfish, how self-absorbed and, yes, how cruel she could be. For well he knew she had been cruel to her elderly husband. He was sorry now that she had come to Beechfield.