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Updated: June 20, 2025
A bitter-sweet moment for John this, revealing, without disguise, the weakness of Desmond's character, but illuminating the triumph over Scaife, the all-powerful. John had been inhuman if this knowledge had not been as spikenard to him. Chapel over, the boys came pouring back into the house.
It was his bitter-sweet joy to be with her constantly, striving with all his splendid powers of brain and body to brace the shattered nerves, and restore the exhausted strength, and lead the darkened mind back gently and by degrees towards the light. She did not shrink from him now, but would answer his questions submissively, and give him her hand mechanically at meeting and parting.
The inner bark of the wild black cherry she said was good to cure ague and fever. The root of the bitter-sweet she scraped down and boiled in the deer-fat, or the fat of any other animal, and made an ointment that possessed very healing qualities, especially as an immediate application to fresh burns.
"As in the old days," said I, glancing over my shoulder to see now near the others were. A groom is never to be considered. "Yes, as in the old days." "Well, I have often regretted that I did not accept you as an experiment." Then I knew that she did not understand. "You must not think I am jesting," said I, seriously. "The story is of the bitter-sweet kind.
That same bitter-sweet philosophy and gracious, if penetrating, irony which inform these tales are characteristic of his larger romances. Four volumes of poetry sustain his reputation as poet. He is found, by Roméro and Ribeiro, to be very correct and somewhat cold in his verse.
The church has been already restored and reopened. The first mass within its thronged walls was so the spectators say a moving sight. "That sad word Joy" Landor's pregnant phrase comes back to one, as expressing the bitter-sweet of all glad things in this countryside, which has seen so short a time ago death and murder and outrage at their worst.
Only for a minute or two she tasted the bitter-sweet pang of associations; and then cap and wearer were passed from her sight. How that night went by it would be useless to try to tell. Some things cannot be described. A loosing of all the bands of law and order in the material world we call chaos; and once in a while the mental nature of some poor mortal falls for a time into a like condition.
"I'm sorry you didn't think of us a little sooner," I observed. And I had the bitter-sweet reward of seeing a stricken light creep up into Dinky-Dunk's eyes. "Why do you say that?" he asked. But I didn't answer that question of his. Instead, I asked him another. "Did you know that Lady Alicia came here and announced that she was in love with you?"
Roger understood the situation so well, and was so thoroughly the master of it in his generous self-control and kindly intentions, that he should scarcely be blamed if he got out of it such bitter-sweet enjoyment as he could, and he said, with a twinkle in his eyes, "Miss Millie, I wasn't going to strike you."
But half way down the garden path, where the shrivelled hollyhocks stood like sentinels, did a wave of something different sweep over him a wave of the boyish, irresponsible past when his heart had wings and could fly without fear to its mate a wave of the past that was rushing through Nancy's mind, well-nigh burying her in its bitter-sweet waters!
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