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We are too good-natured a race; we hate to say the unpleasant thing; we shrink from speaking the unkind truth about a poor fellow whose bread depends upon our verdict; so we speak of his good points only, thus not scrupling to tell a lie a silent lie for in not mentioning his bad ones we as good as say he hasn't any.
I do not like saying anything so unkind. You must not let it prejudice you against her; but she gives me always the impression of a person who leads two lives one that everybody sees and one that nobody understands save herself." "How old should you imagine her to be?" I asked; and again my sister looked uneasily at me.
And all the fellows were frowning, and looking stern and noble. And then, at last, the truth flashed across me, and I wondered if I should be in time. Ours was the first boat, and it would be unkind of me to spoil the man's picture, I thought.
She's the sort that's always kicking over the traces and keeping it dark. I know 'em." "I think you're rather unkind. Miss Schley's mother arrives to-morrow." Leo Ulford put up his hands to his baby moustache and shook with laughter. "That's the only thing she wanted to set her up in business," he ejaculated. "A marmar. I do love those Americans!" "But you speak as if Mrs.
She rebels; she tries to see the cold alien nature which has laid this paralysing spell upon her as it is, to reason herself back to peace to indifference. The poor child flies from her own half-understood trouble; will none of it; murmurs again wildly 'I hate him! I hate him! Cold-blooded ungrateful unkind! In vain. A pair of melancholy eyes haunt, enthral her inmost soul.
I don't want to be unkind, but I daresay you have made yourself think all sorts of things. She felt that this was a great concession, to a Greek and an adventurer. 'Excuse me, said Logotheti quietly, 'but we are talking at cross purposes. What I have to say concerns Miss Donne's financial interests her fortune, if you like to call it so. Mrs. Rushmore's suspicions were immediately confirmed.
It is just as easy to speak kind words as to speak unkind ones, and you will feel much better over it yourself. You can encourage and help, you can speak words of appreciation. When people please you, let them know it. When people do well, or even when they try to do well and fail, you can show that you appreciate their efforts. You can be cheerful and courteous and kind.
'Really, Elfride, you should not press such a hard question. It is ridiculous. 'Then I won't be alone with you any more. Unkind, to wound me so! She laughed at her own absurdity but persisted. 'Come, Elfie, let's make it up and be friends. 'Say you would save me, then, and let him drown. 'I would save you and him too. 'And let him drown. Come, or you don't love me! she teasingly went on.
Every unkind word, every harsh treatment, the whole dark picture our ungenerous conduct will present itself to the imagination in all its naked woes. And be that dying one a parent, a companion, a child, their very silence, as thy turn upon us a languid eye fading in death, will harrow up every painful recollection.
You have heard then the cause of my commitment, my glory, my delight, my reparation! Yes, my old friend, this is the hand, this is the arm that drove the penknife to his heart. Unkind fortune, that not one drop of his blood reached my hand. Indeed, sir, I would never have washed it from it.
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