United States or United Arab Emirates ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
A large number and many of these were persons of such sober sense and practical observation that their opinions would have been valuable in other matters affirmed that Roger Chillingworth's aspect had undergone a remarkable change while he had dwelt in town, and especially since his abode with Mr. Dimmesdale. At first, his expression had been calm, meditative, scholar-like.
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, as it was Roger Chillingworth's, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.
One has only got to bring together a few ragged, dissatisfied men, and, taking horse, charge pell-mell into poor Mr. Chillingworth's dilapidated old tin-pot. I almost feel like that unhappy gentleman to-night, ready to blubber. But, after all, my position is not quite so hopeless as his; I have no brutalised, purple-nosed Briton sitting like a nightmare on my chest, pressing the life out of me."
"Sara Chillingworth's father," said Honoria, "has given her an automobile." "Read that," said Ives, handing over the slip that had been wrapped around the square of candy. "Life teaches us how to live, Love teaches us to forgive." Honoria's checks turned pink. "Honoria!" cried Ives, starting up from his chair. "Miss Clinton," corrected Honoria, rising like Venus from the bead on the surf.
Dimmesdale, when, in fulfilment of this pledge, he requested old Roger Chillingworth's professional advice, “I could be well content, that my labors, and my sorrows, and my sins, and my pains, should shortly end with me, and what is earthly of them be buried in my grave, and the spiritual go with me to my eternal state, rather than that you should put your skill to the proof in my behalf.”
Magistrate, if you are satisfied that this young man is not one of the rioters, I have, of course, no wish to hold him a prisoner." "I can take Mr. Chillingworth's word for more than that," said the magistrate. Charles Holland was accordingly released, and then the doctor, in hurried accents, told him the principal outlines of what had occurred.
Word Of The Day