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With even more cruel callousness, they would sometimes put Maoris carried off from one tribe on shore amongst another and maybe hostile tribe. Slavery was the best fate such unfortunates could expect. On one occasion the missionaries in the Bay of Islands rescued from bondage twelve who had in this fashion been thrown amongst their sworn enemies.
It must have been unspeakably dreadful before, for the foulness of the narrow paved court, shut in by strong walls, was something terrible. Tired, spent, and aching all over, and with boyish callousness to dirt, still Giles and Stephen hesitated to sit down, and when at last they could stand no longer, they rested, leaning against one another.
My wife is very ill indeed, and you come down the Grove making noise enough to wake the dead" he indicated the motor-bicycle, of which the silencer was admittedly defective "and you want to see my daughter. My daughter has more important work to do than to see you. I never heard of such callousness.
Her flesh ached from yesterday's beating, and she was sick at heart at the revelation of Nuwell's essential brutality and callousness. She had thought him a sensitive and intelligent man, and she had admired him for this even after some of his exhibitions of childish temper had disillusioned her as to the glowing nobility which she had at first attributed to him.
Vices he had in plenty in common with most men, except that his particular form of licentiousness was distinguished by a callousness and cruelty in which there was no touch of redeeming quality.
Godhome had been right when it told Kranath that refraining from action was often harder than taking it and that too much intervention would harm, not help, even when it meant allowing suffering and death he could stop by an act of will. He sensed Dr. Jason's resentment at what seemed like callousness, and knew the man simply didn't have the scope to understand. "My word as a Ranger, Doctor.
She accused herself of callousness but the spring of her sympathy, usually so ready, seemed dry as dust when she would have wasted a few drops on Slade. The next day, in the late afternoon, Harris looked up and saw a chap-clad rider on the edge of the valley. She had ridden over unannounced on a horse she had borrowed from Brill. She answered the wave of his hat and urged the horse down the slope.
She pinned it to her jersey without comment. Sometimes the callousness of a man was helpful, and the shadow of a bygone tragedy was out of keeping with the glow of this delightful valley. The curving mass of the glacier was now clearly visible. It looked like some marble staircase meant to be trodden only by immortals.
And anyway, she will probably outlive all of us. If not we can easily divert her attention." The girl looked at her step-mother in horror, half believing that this must be some cruel joke. The callousness of the words seemed unbelievable. But the reality of them could no longer be doubted and the pale glow died out of her face, leaving it white and hard.
Physiological penalties are too remote, and the subtler penalties the degradation, the growth of callousness to finer pleasures, the loss of sensitiveness to all that is most nobly attractive in woman are too feeble to withstand temptation when it lies in ambush like a garrotter, and has the reason stunned in a moment.
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