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But he knew, too, the terrible patience, the incredible resignation, with which poverty and neglect and hunger and oppression and injustice are borne, until at times, child as he was, his soul sickened with shame and rage.
They have found a foundation which they can both look to without any feeling of shame on the contrary, with feelings of equal honour, and I trust also with feelings of mutual forgiveness. On those grounds, therefore, we have decided to give to the Orange River Colony full responsible government.
'For shame, Doctor! said Ethel, pretending to shake him by the collar. 'I was thinking, he added, 'that we must not require too much. People must have their day, and in their own fashion; and I wish you would tell Tom I've no patience to do it myself that I don't mean to hamper him.
He makes the dust rise from the earth with his swagger; he adds his loud voice to every word that I utter. He is my own little self, my lord, he knows no shame; but I am ashamed to come to thy door in his company. 'Prisoner, tell me, who was it that bound you? 'It was my master, said the prisoner.
MY DEARLY BELOVED WIFE AND WIDOW: It may be barely possible that I have lived these years of shame and degradation to some good purpose, and for the following reasons: The man whom you now love so well the man whom you are about to marry George Harpwood is an adventurer and a criminal.
And when the Harlowes know all this, let us see whether they are able to blush, and take shame to themselves. Lady Sarah and Lady Betty want only to know the day, to make all the country round them blaze, and all their tenants mad. And, if any one of mine be sober upon the occasion, Pritchard shall eject him.
"I loathe the very word betray spoken or intended. Shame, shame on thee to speak it, and yet more shame to imagine it needed! Art thou of Norman birth, and deemest a handful of Scotch like these will bid us raise the siege and tamely depart? yet better so than gained by treachery."
Turning a scowling face at the only two standing natives, one of whom had a fresh cut across his cheek, he stormed: "And why have these fellows no shame? Tell them to fall down at once, or I will step on them." Azazruk repeated the message, and, surprised and frightened, the two men obeyed.
He leaned forward, looking at her with something piteous in his air. "Mary Ellen," he ventured, "you might as well say 'another mistake. I did make one. You know it, and I know it." She looked at him with a frank affection, entirely maternal. "Yes, William," she said, with the same gentle firmness in her voice, "we've passed so far beyond those things that we can speak out and feel no shame.
"It was beautiful of you, Aunt Debby, to give me your name, and I'll never, never bring shame to it." "Let us talk no more of the subject," was the curt rejoinder. "We have much to do before you are ready to go to Dickinson, and we must not spend our time in telling what is to be done or not to be done a dozen years from now." Hester was drying the dishes.
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