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He struggled bleeding to my feet; and could I let him die, after all? Could I be crueller than prison, and torture, and despair?" The doctor sighed deeply; but, arming himself with the necessary resolution, he sternly replied, "A woman of your name cannot vacillate between love and honor; such vacillations have but one end.
In another moment he came down upon the floor with a crash. Lutchester's grip upon him, a little crueller now, was like a band of steel. "There are many ways of playing this game. It is you who have chosen this one," he said. "It's no use, Nikasti. I know as much of your own science as you do.
The soothing conviction grew upon her that the taunt was thrown at her for what it was worth. Oh, how she hated Sagan hated his bloodshot, beast's eyes, his mocking laugh, his cruel hands, his crueller gibes! She pushed back the lace from her wrist and saw the thin parallels of bruised flesh his fingers had left entirely unaware, it must be owned upon her whiteness.
And again the king asked, 'What did you see by the lake? and again the knight answered, 'I saw nothing except the water and the mountains. "'Oh, unkind, false friend! cried the king, 'you are crueller to me than those who gave me this wound. Go back and throw the sword into the water, or, weak as I am, I will rise up and kill you.
'What's come to you, my girl? he said in a thick voice. 'What's wrong between us, Clara? Haven't I always done my best for you? If I was the worst enemy you had, you couldn't look at me crueller. 'I think it's me that should ask what's come to you, father, she returned with her former self-possession. 'You treat me as if I was a baby. I want to know what you're going to say about Mrs. Tubbs.
But one day, without reflection, without knowledge, without foresight, he was rash enough to fall in love with a girl of noble birth whose portrait he was painting; to speak to her and to win her love. He thought then, in the silly innocence of his youth, that art abridges all distance and that love effaces it. Crueller nonsense never was uttered, my poor Fabien.
Obviously, he had visions, as had his compatriot Joan of Arc, who suffered even a crueller fate than he at the hands of a few bloodthirsty English noblemen, who disgraced the name of soldier by not only allowing her to be burnt, but selling her to the parasitical Bishops with that object in view.
Then he remembered the examiner's letter, and it dawned upon him that there are few crueller things than to make a prosaic person write poetry. 'You may go, he said, and the three went.
My Sylvia, bear this last shock of fate with a courage worthy thy great and glorious soul; 'tis but a little separation, Sylvia, and we shall one day meet again; by heaven, I find no other sting in death but parting with my Sylvia, and every parting would have been the same; I might have died by thy disdain, thou might'st have grown weary of thy Philander, have loved another, and have broke thy vows, and tortured me to death these crueller ways: but fate is kinder to me, and I go blest with my Sylvia's, love, for which heaven may do much, for her dear sake, to recompense her faith, a maid so innocent and true to sacred love; expect the best, my lovely dear, the worst has this comfort in it, that I shall die my charming Sylvia's
I must ask Sir Oliver." Mrs. Hake had raised her voice; but Ruth managed to intercept the question. All the while she was thinking, thinking to herself. "And he, who can speak thus, once endured shame to shield me! He laughs at things infinitely crueller. . . . Yet they differ in degree only from what then stirred him to fight. . . ." "Have I then so far worsened him? Is the blame mine?"
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