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At first I had compunctions of conscience, but no choice was left me, and I had to do it. I made a rude bridle of birch bark, and jumping on the horse, came here just a little before you." "But what about the Indians?" the boys asked; "where did they go?" "The girl told me," Agnes replied; "they were on their way west to join the other Indians, having received orders to come as soon as possible."
These two wretched tricks exalt a fool in his own low esteem, but never in his neighbour's; for the deep common sense of our nature tells that no man of a genial heart, or of any spread of mind, can take pride in either. And though a good man may commit the one fault or the other, now and then, by way of outlet, he is sure to have compunctions soon, and to scorn himself more than the sufferer.
So the son felt already some compunctions when he realized how far he had gone in this important matter without putting his father in the way of criticizing it. It was a stifling July evening that Jarvis took to open the matter to his father. The old man had been unusually silent, almost preoccupied during the dinner they had eaten together in the little back dining-room.
You have the courage here to my face" the comedy of the situation gained much from the mock indignation she no longer had any compunctions "to say that you destroyed my letter and what it contained a small fortune it would be out here." "I did not destroy your letter, Mona," was the embarrassed response. "Then what did you do with it? Gave it to some one else to read to some other woman, perhaps."
Tom and Susan were invariably there with candy and toys to see them off if Susan and her children had not already gone and at such moments my heart warmed to Tom. And I was astonished as I clung to Matthew and Moreton and little Biddy at the affection that welled up within me, saddened when I kissed Maude good-bye. She too was sad, and always seemed to feel compunctions for deserting me.
Squire Mountmeadow lifted up his eyes to Heaven, as if entreating the interposition of Providence to guide him in his course; then turned to his brother magistrate, and then nodded to the clerk. 'He has compunctions, brother Masham, said his worship: 'I told you so; he has compunctions. Trust me to deal with these fellows.
A quiet, modest fellow Maxwell would be to the end; not witty; not brilliant; more and more content to bear the yoke of the great commonplaces of life as subtlety and knowledge grew; saying nothing of spiritual things, only living them yet a man, it seemed, on whom England would more and more lay the burden of her fortunes. Tressady gazed at him, shaken with new reverences, new compunctions.
But as he pushed aside the portiere he beheld a pair of blue eyes which, he flattered himself, betrayed an expression of pleased expectancy and his compunctions vanished. There was only a little time left to them, for the evening was almost at an end. Their talk came back to travel. Did she like travelling in America? he asked.
But Naseby had some fresh advances to report since she was last in East London, and she drank them in with an eagerness, which somehow assuaged a hidden smart; while he wondered a little perhaps in his philosopher's soul at the woman of our English day, with her compunctions and altruisms, her entanglement with the old scheme of things, her pining for a new.
She had been so ashamed of her own pleasure in this prospect, so full of compunctions in respect to her guest, whose departure made her happy, that she had thrown herself with enthusiasm into this expedient for making it up to them. She had said it was to be Bice's ball.
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