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"It's awfully hot here!" said the girl; "I should like to go out." She was very white, and she knew for with her nerves thus sharpened she saw everything that he was both uneasy and compunctious. At the back of the theatre an open balcony hung over the street; she took possession of this, and stood leaning there without a word, waiting for him to begin. At last she could bear it no longer.
'Oh, mother, mother! cried Laura Wing. Her hands were over her face again and as Lionel Berrington, opening the door, let her pass, she burst into tears. He looked after her, distressed, compunctious, half-ashamed, and he exclaimed to himself 'The bloody brute, the bloody brute! But the words had reference to his wife.
Make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it. Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief!
I will endeavor to acquit myself in such manner, that when I revisit her grave there may, at least, be no compunctious bitterness in my tears." I bowed down and kissed the turf in solemn attestation of my vow. I plucked some primroses that were growing there and laid them next my heart.
In some hours of calmer reflection, however, he felt the compunctious visitings of conscience, and convinced of the injustice which he had done to Mr. Wesley, "in the most solemn manner he professed to him his regret for his unkind usage; and, to express his sincerity, embraced and kissed him with the most cordial affection."
Sara herself, accustomed to anticipating every need of Patrick Lovell's, would have been inclined to feel somewhat compunctious over allowing a lame man to wait upon her, yet, as she watched the eager way in which Miles responded to the visitor's behests, she realized that in reality Audrey was behaving with supreme tact.
Aunt Juley rose to the full height of her tall figure. "He never talks about what doesn't concern him," she said. June was instantly compunctious; she ran to her aunt and kissed her. "I'm very sorry, auntie; but I wish they'd let Irene alone."
Finally the servants gave up the attempt to coax him back into the world, and with a compunctious pity they spread an old rug for him on the chest, and fed him faithfully every day. The master never inquired for him: he was glad to have the brute out of his sight: the mistress heard of the fancy which possessed him, and said nothing: she had given up thinking to win him over.
And having thus in a single word, somewhat to his own astonishment, described his brother, he held out his hand. The hand which Bianca placed in it was feverishly hot. Stephen felt suddenly compunctious. "I'm awfully sorry," he stammered, "about the whole thing. I'm awfully sorry for you " Bianca drew back her hand. With a little shrug Stephen turned away.
The shops, as we drove to the hotel, seemed to expose nothing else for sale, but poppa said that, in spite of the local consumption, it had certainly fallen off, and, as an official representative of one of its great rivals in the west, he naturally felt a compunctious interest in the state of the industry.
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