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"Will you please come and give my husband the sleeping draught?" "Certainly." When they were in the room by the fountain she said: "Of course, you know, this is all wrong. We're not doing the right thing by Doctor Hartley at all. But I don't like to thwart Nigel. Convalescents are always wilful." "Convalescents!" he said. "Yes, convalescents." "You think your husband is convalescent?"
Heathcliff, coming up the causeway, encountered him, and laying hold of his shoulder asked, 'What's to do now, my lad? 'Naught, naught, he said, and broke away to enjoy his grief and anger in solitude. Heathcliff gazed after him, and sighed. 'It will be odd if I thwart myself, he muttered, unconscious that I was behind him. 'But when I look for his father in his face, I find her every day more!
"Is not that making yourself very unpopular?" "That is no great matter," said the General, rather surprised. "I should have thought it better to refine the people's tastes than to thwart their present ones." "The improper must be stopped before the taste for the proper can be promoted," said Clement. "With all the opposition and ill-blood that you cause?" said Gerald.
From the roaring skerry and the wet thwart of the tossing boat, he passes to the stool and desk; and with a memory full of ships, and seas, and perilous headlands, and the shining Pharos, he must apply his long-sighted eyes to the pretty niceties of drawing, or measure his inaccurate mind with several pages of consecutive figures.
Young Milton had set his heart on going into the army. Old Milton had resolved to thwart the desire of his son. The mother Milton, a meek and loving soul, experienced some hard times between the two. Both loved her intensely, and each loved himself, not better perhaps, but too much! It is a sad task to have to recount the disputes between a father and a son. We shrink from it and turn away.
"This is not the way, not the way to Madeleine's!" Then Maurice comprehended his father's exultation; he had conceived the project of visiting Madeleine! But what was to be done? The countess would be enraged if she discovered Count Tristan had seen Madeleine; and the agitation caused by the interview might prove harmful to him. Yet would it not do him more injury to thwart his wishes?
"Are you not aware how great is the penalty that you have incurred by this disgraceful scandal? Think it fortunate if you shall be able in any way to compound for it with the lady's guardian. Seraphine, mollify your indignation towards one who has not meant to thwart you. "It is you that is cruel:" cried the weeping Seraphine: "it is Claude that is cruel.
This indulgence spoiled Agib; he became proud and insolent, would have his play-fellows bear all from him, and would submit to nothing from them, but be master every where; and if any took the liberty to thwart him, he would call them a thousand names, and many times beat them. In short, all the scholars grew weary of his insolence, and complained of him to their master.
At length Rupert, totally exhausted, dropped his oar, and fell panting on the thwart. He was directed to steer, Captain Robbins taking his place. I can only liken our situation at that fearful moment to the danger of a man who is clinging to a cliff its summit and safety almost in reach of his hand, with the consciousness that his powers are fast failing him, and that he must shortly go down.
Then of a sudden he whipped out his knife, and with the point of it jerkily traced on the thwart where I sat, the word "FATHER," and pointed his knife at me. "Yes," I nodded. "It is my father come back, when we all thought him dead. He comes in disgrace, and his life would be forfeited if they found him, so you and I are going to hide him for a time till he is himself, and can go away again."
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