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"I knew not how to keep it, that was all. If I should say to you, 'My son, I am sorry. I have lived evilly. I have wronged you; forgive me; I am dying'!" The marquis was breathing with that rapidity which foretells of coming dissolution. "What would you say, Jesuit?" Brother Jacques stood petrified. "That silence is scarce less than a curse," said the marquis.

Well, you seemed to be a little sceptical about the theory. But perhaps I wronged you? ERNEST. I am not really sceptical about it, but I must admit that I feel very strongly that such work as you describe the critic producing and creative such work must undoubtedly be admitted to be is, of necessity, purely subjective, whereas the greatest work is objective always, objective and impersonal.

Upon the walls they stood and listened to Alcibiades, who told them that wrong-doers should quake in their easy chairs. They looked at his confident army, and were convinced that Athens must yield if he assaulted it, therefore they used the voice that strikes deeper than arrows. "These walls of ours were built by the hands of men who never wronged you, Alcibiades," said the first senator.

Dick Temple knew that in the matter out of which the quarrel grew, he had grievously wronged his friend, and that knowledge had been to him a veritable thorn in the flesh, robbing even such happiness as had come to him of half its quality of joy.

But I became responsible for his debts, which he left me to pay; then I was poor, whilst he grew rich and hated me!" "Hated you?" "Of course! We may forgive those who wrong us, but not those we have wronged. He never forgave me for having been robbed by him!" And the old man's voice grew hard and ironical at the recollection. "Why didn't you ever get married?" asked Frank.

Out of the irresponsibility of his nature, out of the moral ineptitude to which he had been born, moral knowledge came to him at last. Love had not done it; neither the love of Christine, as strong as death, nor the love of his sister, the deepest thing he ever knew but the look of a woman wronged. He had inflicted on her the deepest wrong that may be done a woman.

"Then, just as the man who had been wronged stood beside the man who had wronged him, full of gladness that his opportunity had come, there burst from the cathedral tower a sudden clash of bells, and the man, whose opportunity had come, broke his heart and fell back dead, with that mocking smile still playing round his mouth. "And so he lay there.

There is not a client of mine who can say that I have ever wronged him or taken an unfair advantage of him, and I'll not have any underhanded work started here now. Everything has got to be open and above-board." "As I have said, Mr.

Had she wronged him in attaching too much importance to a fault which was merely on the surface? Oh, but there were too many indisputable charges against him. Yet a man's moral nature may sometimes be strengthened by experience of the evil he has wrought. All this rushed through her mind as she now stood gazing at him. 'But how can they credit an anonymous letter? she said.

In brief, the pride and vanity of certain of the peoples of the world have made havoc of true understanding, and laid waste the home of justice and of equity. O Shaykh! That which hath touched this Wronged One is beyond compare or equal. We have borne it all with the utmost willingness and resignation, so that the souls of men may be edified, and the Word of God be exalted.