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Whatever were the arguments, and they were doubtless many and profound, whatever the experience, and it was doubtless hard and satisfying enough, by which this unfortunate man had justified his life for the last seven years, somehow they suddenly became trivial and terribly ridiculous before this simple but practical question.
Never, never, would he have spoken; I had become too rich, and as it was me he loved, and not my money, he was becoming terribly afraid of me. That is the history of my marriage. As to the history of my fortune, it can be told in a few words.
He was accustomed to a rough life on board ship, where in those days there were few of the luxuries of civilisation, but there he had a tolerably comfortable bed. Here he had straw, and the absence of a coverlet of any description made him terribly cold.
Nannie did not hate anybody, but she thought she would rather be a missionary than marry; "though I'm afraid I'd be afraid of the savages," she confessed, timorously. David and Blair were confidential to each other about girls in general, and Elizabeth in particular; they said she was terribly stand-offish. "Oh, well, she's a girl," said David; "what can you expect?"
With the acuteness which persons who make a sole business of their own interest gain by practice, so that fortune-hunters are often shrewd where real lovers are terribly simple, he fixed at once on the young man up at the school where the girl had been going of late, as probably at the bottom of it. "Cousin Elsie in love!" so he communed with himself upon his lonely pillow.
They are sinking down so many! They want to be lifted through. They want and they want terribly a place of safety on the other side. Go down into the river of temptation, and hardship, and sin, and help them up out of it, Christopher. Take them up out of their cruel conditions; make a place for some of them to begin over again in; for some of them to rest in, once in a while, and take courage.
"Still some girls lots of girls seem to get on mighty well without being so terribly particular." "You ought to see them after a few years." "I'm only twenty-one," laughed she. "I've got lots of time before I'm old. . . . You haven't married?" "No," said he. "I thought I'd have heard, if you had."
'How can I tell, ma'am, he returned, 'seeing I do not know what it is, or what preparation it needs? Judge me yourself, ma'am. 'It needs only trust and obedience, answered the lady. 'I dare not say anything, ma'am. If you think me fit, command me. 'It will hurt you terribly, Curdie, but that will be all; no real hurt but much good will come to you from it.
"The number of wounded entailed colossal transportation work. I counted fifteen trains in eight hours. A fine, grim set of men, terribly weary but amiable, except for the officers. "The enemy crossed the Marne on the return journey north under great difficulties and beneath a withering fire from the British troops, who pursued them hotly. The German artillery operated from a height.
To act like a man the hope of the Proberts must pull up the root, even if the operation should be terribly painful, should be attended with cries and tears and contortions, with baffling scruples and a sense of sacrilege, the sense of siding with strangers against his own flesh and blood.
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