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Conscious as I was of my manifold weaknesses, failings, and shortcomings, so that I too would be ready to say with the Apostle Paul, "O wretched man than I am!" yet I was assured that this affliction was not upon me in the way of the fatherly rod, but for the trial of my faith.
It would be very hard now, Clary, if some transient fancy of that kind were to ruin the happiness of two lives would it not, my dear?" "It would be very hard." "O, Clarissa, do pray be candid. You must understand what I mean. That wretched man has been making love to you?" "You ought not to ask me such a question, Lady Laura," answered Clarissa, sorely perplexed by this straight attack.
"There are so many troubles worse than these failures, that it only shows how happy we are that we should take them so much to heart." "They are a very real trouble!" said Margaret. "Don't smile, mamma. Only remember how wretched his schooldays were, when papa could not see any difficulty in what to him was so hard, and how all papa's eagerness only stupified him the more."
"What common folk in all this world," the report says, "is so poor, so feeble, so evil beseen in town and field, so bestial, so greatly oppressed and trodden under foot, fares so evil, with so great misery, and with so wretched life, as the common folk of Ireland? What pity is here, what ruth is to report, there is no tongue that can tell, ne person that can write.
And Dick is growing more and more wretched about it every day. Every day he pours out his woes to me till I can almost howl with misery." "What do you want me to do?" "Not to stand in his way if he gets a chance of going abroad." "Of course I won't," cried Austin eagerly. "It never entered my head that he wanted to go away. I would do anything in the world for his happiness, poor old chap.
'Tis admiration such women want, not love that touches them; and I can conceive, in her old age, no more wretched creature than this lady will be, when her beauty hath deserted her, when her admirers have left her, and she hath neither friendship nor religion to console her. "Business calling me to London, I went to St. James's Church last Sunday, and there opposite me sat my beauty of the Wells.
We kept along by the seashore a great part of the way, and stopped to feed our horses at a village, the wretched street of which stands close along the shore of the Mediterranean, its loose, dark sand being made nasty by the vicinity.
Meanwhile, in the wretched past and present, the only aristocracy really existing has been that of the privileged creatures whose qualities and circumstances must have been such that, whether artisans or artists, tillers of the ground or seekers after truth, poets, philosophers, or mothers and nurses, their work has been their pleasure. This means love; and love means fruitfulness.
Her signature fixes it otherwise you're left out in the cold." Andy was never so dispirited in all his life. He sat dumb and wretched, like a person suddenly finding his house collapsed all about him, and himself in the midst of its ruins. "Look here, Wildwood," said Marco kindly, arising after a reflective pause, "you think this thing over.
That just put an end to my courage again; I felt ashamed, and looked out through the window. I was, in spite of all, in far too wretched a condition; I must, above all, not try to imagine myself any one in particular.
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