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He knew that she thought him guilty of wronging Susie Morton; it was just possible that she had heard of the forged cheque. He bit his lip with mortification and a dull anger, as the desire rose in him to go up to the Grange and clear himself. But he could only do so by breaking the promise he had given to Heyton, by ruining Miriam's happiness.
Yet how much better it were for you instead of reproaching Antony with cowardice to lay aside yourself that effeminacy both of spirit and of body, instead of bringing a charge of disloyalty against him to cease yourself from doing anything disloyal or playing the deserter, instead of accusing him of ingratitude to cease yourself from wronging your benefactors!
Whatever of any one of these qualities justice does not exact from us, we may, without wronging any one, omit.
For if you don't you will be wronging that patient man cruelly." I departed leaving her dumb. Next day, seeing Powell making preparations to go ashore, I asked him to give my regards to Mrs Anthony. He promised he would. "Listen, Powell," I said. "We got to know each other by chance?" "Oh, quite!" he admitted, adjusting his hat.
I never can marry Mary without wronging both her and myself." "That alters everything, Allan. How long have you loved this other woman?" "Since I left home last March." "You cannot be sure of a love only a few months old. Will you tell me who she is?" Allan took a taper and lit every gas-jet in the room. "Look around, father, you will see her everywhere."
"His name was new to me, but my father assured me that he was the next of kin mentioned in Colonel Burgoyne's will, and convinced me that I had no real right to the property.... After all, he was my father; I agreed; I could not bear the thought of wronging anybody. I was to give up everything but my mother's jewels. It seems, my father said, I don't I can't believe it now "
Your own father if he was your father deserted you, and I have been, a father to you in his place, wronging my own honourable name for your sake; am I to blame for this? Be reasonable! The laws of man are one thing and the laws of God are another, and we have to make the best we can of ourselves between the two.
But nothing nothing! shall ever break up my ... affection for Maurice." "You might as well call it love." Edith, rising, said, very low: "Well, I will call it love. I am not ashamed. I am not wronging you. You have no need to be jealous of me, Eleanor. He cares nothing for me." Eleanor struck the table with her clenched fists. "You shall never have him!" she said.
"I did not mind that at all. In fact it was the easiest way for me to get out of meeting people." Laurel sighed heavily. "I do wonder when our lives will change," she said finally. "Let us hope very soon," Cora said. "I, of course, do not know your story, but I feel that in some way that man is wronging you." "Yes, he has been our evil genius ever since he crossed our path.
Mr Cradell, also, was an admirer of the fair sex; and, alas! that I should say so, Mrs Lupex, at the present moment, was the object of his admiration. Not that he entertained the slightest idea of wronging Mr Lupex, a man who was a scene-painter, and knew the world. Mr Cradell admired Mrs Lupex as a connoisseur, not simply as a man. "By heavens!
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