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"You are willing, then, to abide the consequences of a full disclosure of all the circumstances? for part will not come out without the whole." "There is happily nobody to tell them," said Thorn, with a sneer. "Pardon me they will not only be told, but known thoroughly in all the circles in this country that know Mr. Thorn's name."
She felt herself humiliated by Julia's sneer, and vexed that the mockery of such a creature should affect her. She trembled lest Harney should notice that the noisy troop had recognized her; but they found no table free, and passed on tumultuously. Presently there was a soft rush through the air and a shower of silver fell from the blue evening sky.
Some would try to plead with him, for the sake of old times; some would cringe and whine to him; some would try to reason with him, to touch his conscience. But mostly they would be haughty, they would glare at him with hate, or put a sneer of contempt on their faces.
How his lion heart must chafe, condemned to see a foe whom his skill as captain tells him it were madness to confront!" "Ay, Richard Nevile, ay," said the prelate, with a slight sneer, "play the Paladin, and become the dupe; release the prince, and betray the people!" "No! I can be true to both. Tush! brother, your craft is slight to the plain wisdom of bold honesty.
As he passed me he called out with a sneer, pointing as he did so to the fading red in the western sky 'Look your last upon the light, White Man, for the "Thing that bites" lives in the dark.
It is generally vanity alone which leads a married woman to receive the first disgraceful flattery of dissolute men. Probably nine out of ten of those American women who have trifled with honor and reputation, whose names are spoken with the sneer of contempt, have been led on, step by step, in the path of sin by vanity as the chief motive.
Wherefore, best for the small man to rule by the light of his own little sense, nor venture to count on the luck of great Canute; for luck but goes with the great." "Thine answer," said Tostig, with a bitter sneer, "is not what I expected from an uncle and warrior. But other chiefs may be found less afraid of the luck of high deeds."
Was that honourable towards her?" She smiles, but her smile is a sneer. "After all, she would not care," says she. "She carried her point! She has compelled you to raise her from the mud to the sky!" Rylton draws back suddenly. All at once recollection comes to him. His wife! Yes, Tita is his wife, and honour binds him to her. He drops Mrs. Bethune's hand.
If she, Hannah, were to marry and leave the pair instead of being herself left! Oh, the glory of it the triumphant glory of it! How she could crush her brother! How she could gloat over and sneer at Imogene! The things she might say she, the wife of a rich man! Oh, wonderful! "Well, come on, Hannah, come on," urged the impatient Caleb. "What do you say?" But Miss Parker still shook her head.
"Doubtless!" said Annot, grimly; "doubtless." Honest Jeanne Tallot passed the sneer by, and went on with stout gravity of demeanor: "There is only one thing for which I somewhat blamed Mère Giraud, and that is that I think she has scarcely done her duty toward Valentin. He disappointed her by being an ugly lad instead of a pretty girl, and she had not patience with him. Laure was the favorite.
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