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Had her husband been fond, sought the noble heart which felt so bitterly his neglect, the gulf which now divided them might never have existed; and could she still the voice of that patriotism, that loyalty towards a free just monarch, which the dying words of a parent had so deeply inculcated, and which the sentiments of her own heart had increased in steadiness and strength?
Then he knelt beside the body, and placing his ear close over the heart, listened for some sign of life, but the old man was beyond human aid. He wheeled the chair to the side of the room and moved the body to the sofa. Gently he covered it with a robe. The awfulness of the situation forced itself upon him, and bitterly he blamed himself.
But if the King and the Ministry believed or hoped that in expelling Wilkes from Parliament they had got rid of Wilkes for good and all; if they believed or hoped that in thus degrading Wilkes they would deprive him of his popularity with the people or even diminish that popularity, they were speedily to be undeceived and bitterly disappointed.
I do not want her to know he is on hand for a few minutes. Explain it to the girls, will you?" After sending the younger girls down-stairs again, he closed the door of Prudence's room, and sat down beside her. "Prudence, I can't tell you how bitterly disappointed I am in you." "Father!" "Yes, I thought you loved us, the girls and me.
I asked, with unconcealed irony, forcing myself even against my will, to render my question bitterly offensive. "Yes, oh, yes! I would give myself as hostage for your honor. My life would be forfeited, too, if you should not keep the oath." I hesitated. The opportunity was an alluring one in a way, for it would render the entire organization like an open book to me.
You know how deeply I have your advantage at heart, how I love you and prize you above everything else in the world, and how much I long to see you well settled in life—and how bitterly it would grieve me to see you married to that girl—or any other in the neighbourhood. What you see in her I don’t know.
Distracted, sobbing bitterly, she looked at her knees and her arms, on which nothing now rested, and which she was at a loss how to employ.
Naturally that irritation was promptly transferred to him. "Then what, in heaven's name, is it?" she demanded. "My friends are all treating me as if I had the smallpox." "Cheerful lot of friends we've made in this town!" he said bitterly. "What is the matter with them?" she persisted. "The matter is they've taken me for a fool they could order around to suit themselves. They found they couldn't.
"And a singularly consistent investigation you have made, my dear Watson," said he. "I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder which you have omitted. The total effect of your proceeding has been to give the alarm everywhere and yet to discover nothing." "Perhaps you would have done no better," I answered bitterly. "There is no 'perhaps' about it. I HAVE done better. Here is the Hon.
When she went away Manisty sat in a black silence, staring at the ground. Eleanor bit her lip, grew a little restless, and at last said: 'She gives you no openings? Manisty laughed. 'Except for rebuffs! he said, bitterly. 'Don't provoke them! 'How can I behave as though that that scene had never passed between us?
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