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This included the literary notices and the book reviews, and I am afraid that I at once gave my prime attention to these. It was an evening paper, and I had nearly as much time for reading and study as I had at home. But now society began to claim a share of this leisure, which I by no means begrudged it.
There was no absolute danger here, as Lady Glencora knew; and Lady Glencora, who was tolerant and begrudged nothing to Madame Max except the one thing, was quite willing to meet the lady at such a grand affair as this.
So they faced each other, two veteran paladins who had been riding under hostile banners ever since they first bore arms; and John Slaughter delivered his ultimatum in three syllables. "Hit the trail," he said, and clamped his lips into a tight line as if he begrudged wasting that many words. His eyes had become two dark slits.
None gave ostentatiously, for they were simple, kindly folk who gave for the pure joy of giving and begrudged all knowledge of their acts to anyone outside their own little circle. There is no doubt that John Merrick was eccentric. It is generally conceded that a rich man may indulge in eccentricities, provided he maintains a useful position in society, and Mr.
A strange light, as of pain, shot from the Lady Caroline's eye, as if for the first time she begrudged to the young girl the position she had been at such pains to transfer to her; it showed that a slumbering affection for her husband still had life in Lady Caroline, obscured and stifled as it was by social considerations.
It was only a chance, you know, our getting those staterooms, and we were in such a hurry. I was so much obliged to that dear, old German gentleman for dying. We shouldn't have been here if he hadn't." "Pauline, my dear!" "Well, I can't think, as he's probably in heaven, that he can have begrudged us his tickets to New York." "I should think not," said Mrs. Throckmorton, with a little sigh.
Only now and then a robin molested a fruit tree; and the tap of the woodpecker was seldom heard. Hawks and crows that were left, looked so wistful and lonely they were not begrudged the little they ventured at times to take. Blackbirds troubled the corn but little, and were more reserved of their mannerless clack.
He begrudged his own isolation, was VERY chary of sharing his life, even for a day. 'The only other place I know is Paris, she said, 'and I can't stand that. She looked with her wide, steady eyes full at Loerke. He lowered his head and averted his face. 'Paris, no! he said.
Its solitary gas-jet had, with begrudged illumination, sicklied o'er the pages of those innumerable borrowed books with which he had sought to dull poignant self-consciousness.... A tomb!... Bitterly he granted the aptness of that description of his cubicle: mausoleum of his every hope and aspiration, sepulchre of all his ability and promise.
"The wife of my youth, soon another husband found A stranger sat at home on the hearthstone of my sire. "My son became a slave, though not purchased nor bound, The hireling of a stranger, who begrudged him his hire. "Such, alas, is human life! such the horror of his death! Man grows like a grass, like a god he sees no end.
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