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She saw how timidly he asked, and her heart was cruelly wounded by the necessity she felt to refuse; but she had fortified herself to resist just such a temptation. "I'd rather not go, Charley," she said slowly, in accents so pleading and so full of pain that Millard felt remorse that he should have suggested such a thing.
The terrible temptation which was assailing me will now be understood. I could so force Michael's hand that he must kill the King. I was in a position to bid him defiance and tighten my grasp on the crown not for its own sake, but because the King of Ruritania was to wed the Princess Flavia. What of Sapt and Fritz?
Picture back, and the chair with cushions, in the top garret, that yawned for her. Imagine these, and remember that probably old Maisie, to seem sane at any cost, would have gone on indefinitely keeping silence about her own past life, whatever temptation she may have been under to speak again of the mill-model, invisible in its carpet-roll above the fireplace. Remember that what Dr.
To be mistress over it all ah, what a temptation. If she had only loved Hr. Bogstad, if she had only liked him; but she did neither. She could not explain the reason, but she knew that she could not be his wife. How could such a man love her, anyway? Was she really so very good looking? Signe looked down into the still, deep water and saw her own reflection asking the question over again.
He laughed sourly, undecided whether to pretend that he was not quite serious, or to divulge his real condition. Her calm confident eyes silently invited him to relieve his mind, and he could not resist the temptation. 'You know that mortgage on the house, he said quickly. 'I got it all arranged at once.
It was in vain that he abstained himself; that he made himself a fanatic on the question, as all his acquaintances said; Sophy could not go out without being exposed to temptation, and she was not strong enough to resist it. Before the next spring came, the people of Upton spoke of her as confirmed in her miserable failing.
She liked his youth, his sincerity even the stubbornness with which he disclaimed inconvenient enthusiasms; and she was inevitably flattered by the way in which his evident prejudice against herself had broken down. His marriage was a misfortune, a calamity! She thought of it with the instinctive repulsion of one who has never known any temptation to the small vulgarities of life.
But think of the holy women, the holy saints, who have gone through the same temptation fighting against it with all the strength of their souls until the very wounds of our blessed Lord have been marked on their bodies." He was creeping closer to my side. His voice was quivering at my ear. I was struggling hard, and still trembling all over. "Hold fast by the Church, my child.
The temptation was strong, but our guides said if we meant to get to the battlefront before lunch it was time, and past time, we got started. Being thus warned we did get started. Of a battle there is this to be said that the closer you get to it the less do you see of it. Always in my experiences in Belgium and my more recent experiences in France I found this to be true.
Once "the Governor's Wife" had been given five hundred dollars to pay her servants, and she had given it to the Overseer for his teachers. But the Overseer had begun at the houses where there were the most children, and he had not got around to Craig, who had only a mother. When temptation came to him, he told Bonita about it and asked her advice.
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