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I could not help noticing that at home one either came up against extreme sympathy and kindness or else utter callousness there seemed to be no half-measures. In March I again hoped to go to Roehampton, but my luck was dead out. I could still bear no pressure on the wretched nerve, and another operation was performed almost immediately.
Alone, he might weep. And then, under the kiosk, he saw a white figure, which reminded him of Francesca. "And for three months I have had no letter from her! What has become of her? I have not written for two months, but I warned her. Is she ill? Oh, my love! My life! Will you ever know what I have gone through? What a wretched constitution is mine!
"Yes, I do," Theodore answered, positively. "And I know you're in dire need of help. Come home with me to dinner, will you?" Pliny shook his head. "Can't. Some wretched nuisance and her daughter are to dine with us, and I promised mother I would be at home and on duty. I must go up directly, and there is a car coming. Theodore, don't think me an ungrateful fool.
'Yes, I shouldn't wonder if they was convenient, replied the gentleman, 'seeing that a few people live there, pretty snug. That's the Fair, that is. 'My friend, said Mr. Pickwick, 'you don't really mean to say that human beings live down in those wretched dungeons? 'Don't I? replied Mr. Roker, with indignant astonishment; 'why shouldn't I? 'Live! live down there! exclaimed Mr. Pickwick.
Time and space, which cannot be annihilated to make two lovers happy, were here turned topsy-turvy, as it were, to make four lovers, four, or at the very least three, for Wilhelmina will not admit she was ever the least in love, not she, poor soul, either with loose Fred or his English outlooks, four young creatures, and one or more elderly persons, superlatively wretched; and even, literally enough, to do all but kill some of them.
All the cruel, hard, weary of his captivity, his mother had lived green and fresh in his heart. Many and many a night had he wet his wretched pillow with the thought of how once he had lain in that mother's arms, and she had petted him and showered love upon him.
Often landlords who want to build a new house or send a son to England or buy a new motor simply levy an extra anna in the rupee on their rent-rolls which the wretched tenants dare not refuse to pay. As in many other matters, the ancient institution of caste, which is still the corner-stone of the whole Indian social structure, introduces yet another disturbing factor.
The old and weary voice fell like sweet rain upon his quaking parching heart. How sweet and sad! Do so my poor child. The devil has led you astray. Drive him back to hell when he tempts you to dishonour your body in that way the foul spirit who hates our Lord. Promise God now that you will give up that sin, that wretched wretched sin.
Already the large cities of the New World are approximating to the condition of those in the Old, in producing a subsidence or deposit of the drunken, the dissolute, the vicious, and the wretched.
This might of itself have possibly occasioned a discovery; and he thought he had great reason to fear that, if she did not carry matters so far as purposely and avowedly to reveal the secret to Amelia, her indiscretion would at least effect the discovery of that which he would at any price have concealed. Under these terrors he might, I believe, be considered as the most wretched of human beings.
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