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Perhaps she did not know how much the sides of her intent were pricked by the nettling discovery that she was not the cause of his unhappiness. "You 're not going to leave me so!" she exclaimed, in a tone of injury. "I 'll gang or bide as ye wull, my leddy," answered Malcolm resignedly. "Bide then," she returned. "I haven't half done with you yet."

It is a wonderfully clever play, you know ... don't blush, Mr. Author!" "I heard the story long ago," Beatrice observed, "only of course it sounded very differently then, and we never dreamed that it would really be produced." "Philip has told me about those days," Elizabeth said. "I am afraid that you, too, have had your share of unhappiness, Miss Wenderley.

But then the memory of her own unhappiness steeled her heart, and the feeling grew strong within her that this nasty woman was imposing on her, and she refused. "I am afraid, madam," she said, "that my time is altogether occupied." "Then let him take me to 10, Alexandrina Row, Maida Vale," said the Baroness, throwing herself sulkily back into the carriage.

I ask to know no secret that you have unwillingness to divulge, least of all those which concern my son. His conduct has given me too much unhappiness to permit me to hope comfort or satisfaction from him. If you are such as I suppose you, believe me, that whatever unhappy circumstances may have connected you with George Staunton, the sooner you break them through the better."

Natures of this kind, where vanity is so predominant, require the greatest care, for the failing is difficult to eradicate and would, if not cured, be a source of great unhappiness in after life. I have seen a little one change her amusements several times during the hour.

Or, "Very few wives would bear what you bear and hide every vestige of unhappiness from the world. You are a wonderful and admirable character in my eyes." Or, "It seems so strange that your husband does not adore you but men are blind to the best qualities in women like you.

"Margaret, darling," she said to me on the last day we ever talked together, "some time you are going to marry you do not think so now, but you will and how I wish I had time to warn you of all the hidden rocks in your course! If I only had kept a record of those days of my own unhappiness, you might learn to avoid the wretchedness that was mine.

"I have realized naught beyond the fact that I owe you nothing but unhappiness and ruin. By a trick, by a low fraud, you enlisted me into a service that has proved my undoing. Once a cheat always a cheat. What credit in the face of that can I give this paper?" he cried, talking wildly. "To me it is incredible, nor do I wish to credit it, for though it were true, what then?

These two last-named, cheerful people were in a state of acute unhappiness which each was doing his and her best to conceal. It required some pluck to be perfectly even-spirited and to show good mettle in those days. The world contained for them nothing but a sense of parting and uncertainty, and a horrible feeling of disappointment.

"Oh, ma'am, you are too good," sobbed the poor man, vehemently. "You don't know me, ma'am; I never knew myself till lately. I am a miserable man. I am frightened at myself, ma'am frightened terribly. Christ knows, it would be well for me I was dead this minute." "I am very sorry for your unhappiness, Merton," said Mrs.