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Updated: May 19, 2025
Months of doubt followed before the terrible experience of August proved the futility of their pleas, to which the ducal family refused to listen, so deep was their sense of personal aggrievement. Long as it was since the duchess had taken part in public affairs, she, too, had a word to say here.
Sharpe smiled darkly. Richelieu's precocious gallantry evidently was not considered as gratuitous as his experimental metallurgy. But as his eyes followed his daughter's wholesome, Phyllis-like figure, a new idea took possession of him: needless to say, however, it was in the line of another personal aggrievement, albeit it took the form of religious reflection.
"Oh, don't go," I pleaded, before I was aware of saying it. I didn't want him to go, for he was an entertaining apothecary and a sympathetic person, before whom I could act my sullenness and aggrievement. "Don't go? Why shouldn't I?" demanded Chappy, who seemed, however, touched at my wanting him. "Now, my son, don't you run away with the idea that you're of the slightest importance.
His pipe was going well and he seemed to have struck an easy grade. There was a tone of injury and aggrievement in his talk of the bear's ingratitude. He snailed over his whittling as we laughed heartily at the droll effect of it all. 'D'ye ever hear o' the wild man 'at roams 'round'n these woods? he asked. 'Never did, said Uncle Eb.
'If you have a knife, she said, 'put it into me soon. God will look kindly on you and I would pardon you half the crime. She closed her eyes and began to pray. 'Madam Howard, he answered, in a lofty tone of aggrievement, 'the door is on the latch: the latch is at your hand to be found for a little fumbling: get you gone if you will not trust me.
He was constantly discovering interesting things about her that she had not known before. But sometimes, as now, she was restive under his too close scrutiny. "So you are actually going to leave me next week?" he asked, with a note of personal aggrievement. "To leave you? I like that! If it weren't for you I shouldn't be going." "Are they really sending you away on my account?" "Indeed they are.
Of late it had fallen into disuse, and when she had heard him on occasions greet the foreman, may be of some stray party of drivers or surveyors with the bush formula: 'Good day, mate! she had felt with deep aggrievement that she no longer desired the appellative.
His manner was more curt and decided rougher than before. He appeared to have taken on the tone of the Back-Blocks. Yet she admired him. She did not dislike the roughness. But she felt a womanish aggrievement at his having left her to undo her own things. And the rooms were horrible the meagre appliances the course cotton sheets, the awful Reckitt's-blue colouring of the painted walls.
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