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I'll bear danger with any man but not useless danger no, no. Thank you for nothing. And you nod your head, and I know very well, Parson Harry, what you mean. There was the the other affair to make her angry. But is a woman never to forgive a husband who goes a-tripping? Do you take me for a saint?" "Indeed, sir, I do not," says Harry, with a smile.
Meynell put it into a drawer of his writing-table without looking at it. The two men moved toward the door. "As to any appeal to you on behalf of a delicate and helpless lady " said Meynell, betraying emotion for the first time "that I suppose is useless.
Mr Phillott, under these circumstances, decided that it would be useless to risk more lives, and that the wounded should be taken out of the brig, and the boats should pull away from the ship. He desired me to get the wounded men into the cutter which he sent alongside, and then to follow the other boats.
"I must trouble you to hold it to my lips," he said, "for as you see my right arm is useless, my collar-bone is broken, I believe, and my shoulder-blade smashed. However, it might be worse." She held a glass to his lips. As he drank a sudden thought struck her. "Are you Arnold Dampierre?" she asked. "That is certainly my name," he said, "though I cannot think how you guess it."
He succeeded in drawing down upon the Court of Madrid the heavy rebuke of Louis XIV. This, however, proved altogether useless; for Philip persisted in his resolution, and contented himself with sending the Cardinal del Guidice to his grandfather, whilst Madame des Ursins employed with the same monarch the customary influence of Madame de Maintenon.
She took time to reflect that it was useless to feel annoyed at anything he might say, and when she formed her answer it was in the spirit of meeting him in his own vein. "What makes you think I ever had the chance?" "Because I gave it to you myself." "You, Mr. van Tromp?" "Yes; me. I did all that wire-pulling when you first came to New York; and I did it just so that you might catch him." "Oh?"
He understood the meaning of these inquiries, for he had been with his mistress at Surrentum. They whom Basil sought were not here; all search would be useless; in proof of this Leo offered the evidence of his wife, who could reveal something of moment which she had learnt only a few hours ago.
So he would sit and wonder at the vision and skill of the original dreamer, exclaiming at times: "A marvel! A marvel!" At the same time, so far as Aileen was concerned things were obviously shaping up for additional changes. She was in that peculiar state which has befallen many a woman trying to substitute a lesser ideal for a greater, and finding that the effort is useless or nearly so.
As a matter of fact, their effect is wholly beneficent even to the sufferers, inasmuch as they tend to the diminution of pain. Their actual purpose is always to prevent the escape of captured food of a wounded animal, which would then, indeed, suffer useless pain, since it would certainly very soon be captured again and be devoured."
High-flown motives from a world of white angels, where no doubt they are very suitable. But men will use them as working motives here below, with the result that they wreck women's hearts and cause themselves a great deal of useless misery.
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