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I suppose I must have winced at her words, and she is quick to observe. "Go on," I said; "do not spare me. Tell me everything. It is madness indeed; but we may kill it, when we both know it." "Oh, if we could!" she cried, with a poignancy which was heart-breaking to hear. "If we could!" "Do you doubt our ability?" I said, trying to be patient and calm. "You are unreasoning, like all women.
The alternative was Linda's house, at twenty-seven instead of seventeen, and with the vague cloud over her even more definite than before. Harriet winced. Nina, whispered her mind, was far less ignorant than Harriet had been at her age. "Life the truths of life," Royal said, as if he read her thought, "may not be to everyone what they might be might have been to you!"
‘Why women don’t marry? But they do whenever they can!’ the intelligent reader will naturally exclaim. Not ‘whenever they get the chance,’ mark you; no intelligent reader would make this mistake, though it is a common enough error among the non-comprehending. Most spinsters over thirty must have winced at one time or another at the would-be genial rallying of some elderly man relative: ‘What! you not married yet? Well, well, I
"We are going to Scotland unexpectedly. Come down and see me." I went home instantly, and told my father I had come to talk things over with him. A note from Mary lay upon the hall-table as I came in and encountered my father. "I thought it better to come down to you," I said with my glance roving to find that, and then I met his eye. It wasn't altogether an unkindly eye, but I winced dishonestly.
"Oh, I'm in time I'm in time. Thank God I'm in time." Jack waited a moment to steady his voice. "How came you here, Melissy?" "He brought me Black MacQueen. I hated him for it, but now I'm glad so glad because I can save you." Jack winced. He looked over her shoulder at MacQueen, taking it all in with an air of pleasant politeness.
We peasants are ignorant people. The Jews know about everything, and sometimes they give good advice. The priest winced. The peasant continued excitedly: 'There were no wages coming in from the manor, and the Germans took the two acres I had rented from the squire.
The new bond had arisen out of the wreck of those he had himself broken; Ferrier had turned to her, and she to Ferrier, just as he, by his own acts, had lost them both; it might be right and natural; he winced under it in a sense, resented it none the less.
She works too many hours, but she seems to be getting on very well, and brings her mother all she earns." "Do you think she is able to stand alone?" Dr. Leigh winced a little at this searching question, for no one knew better than she the vulgarizing influence of street life and chance associations upon a young girl, and the temptations.
Their merits and attractions are mainly such as we generously invest them with; and often they take a mean advantage of our kindness." I glanced at him sideways, and he flushed and winced. "I would not derogate from women, nor rate myself so high. I meant only that we imagine well, monstrous heaps of nonsense.
He was sitting at a table, and looked a big man. Afterwards, when he stood up, I saw he was small. He bowed as I entered the room for he is polite even to the meanest private of a line regiment and as he bowed he winced. Even that movement gave him pain. And then he smiled, with an effort. 'Monsieur de Vasselot, he said; and I bowed. 'A Corsican, he went on.
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