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The seaman when afloat is so thoroughly accustomed to obey orders, and to be directed and instructed in everything, that he never thinks for himself, and never acquires the least forethought or capability of guiding himself in any position apart from the active duties of his profession; consequently, from time out of mind, he has been especially doomed to be victimised on the land.
He knew her kind of woman loves self-conquest the man who can powerfully wait and not be victimised by his own emotions. . . . So it was that Skag fled from himself, when there was still a half hour before noon. He could not meet her, longing like this. There was sweat on Skag's forehead as his limbs quickened away from the place of meeting yesterday.
The fact is," he went on, with a bold stroke, "my uncle is so far from well at present that he was unable to sign this cheque without assistance, and I fear that my holding the pen for him may have made the difference in the signature." Mr. Judkin shot a keen glance into Morris's face; and then turned and looked at Mr. Bell. "Well," he said, "it seems as if we had been victimised by a swindler.
"Rubbish, aunt!" said Miss Lister, who had slipped into an empty chair near Myra. "I agree with Miss Champion about 'services of song, and I don't care for any music but the best." Jane turned to her quickly, with a cordial smile and her most friendly manner. "Ah, but you must come," she said. "We will be victimised together.
Common humanity demands an answer of India, for we seem to hear a bitter cry of India's womanhood. As infants, less cared for; as girls, less educated; married too early; ignorantly tended in their hour; as married ladies, shut out of the world; always more victimised by ignorance and superstition in life's race, India's women carry a heavy handicap, and 37 out of every 1000 actually succumb.
"Good old Brandy! you lead off with one of the Marigold girls, while I stop here and do the how-d'ye-do's." The doctor, with a serious face, led His Grace aside. "This appears to be a freak of the two young people," said he. "They are the only members of the family at home. I am very sorry you have been victimised."
The qualification, "at first," is important; visions are perhaps not easily transferred to a new subject, but the question of what is good policy for the rascals may have to be considered. This may limit the experience of those who have been more seriously victimised than Miss Freer and her garrison were. The experiments reported in Mr.
Before the close of that day in which Strong's patron had given the Chevalier the benefit of so many blessings before his face and curses behind his back, Sir Francis Clavering, who had pledged his word and his oath to his wife's advisers to draw or accept no more bills of exchange, and to be content with the allowance which his victimised wife still awarded him, had managed to sign his respectable name to a piece of stamped paper, which the Baronet's friend, Mr.
I don't pretend you feel yourself victimised, for this evidently is the way you live, and it's what we're agreed is the best way. Yes, as you say," she continued after a moment, "I ought to be easy and rest on my work. Well then here am I doing so. I AM easy. You'll have it for your last impression. When is it you say you go?" she asked with a quick change.
Her eyes glistened behind the veil, and tear-drops appeared at its edge and vanished under her chin. "You don't know how much I wanted to tell you!" she wept. She hid her half-veiled face in her hands. And then he was victimised by the blackest desolation. His one desire was that the scene should finish, somehow, anyhow. "I never wrote to you because there was nothing to say. Nothing!"
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