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Harley, I believe she literally worships the ground he walks upon." "She does, she does!" cried my companion, and emphasized the words with beats of his clenched fist. "It is utterly, damnably mystifying. But I tell you, she knows, Knox, she knows!" "You mean she knows that he is a doomed man?" Harley nodded rapidly.
Presently he found himself gazing down the avenue once more. There were a thousand places to go to, a thousand pleasant things to do; yet he doddered, full of ill-temper, dissatisfaction, and self-contempt. He was weak, damnably weak; and for years he had admired himself, detachedly, as a man of pride. He started forward, neither sensing his direction nor the perfected flavor of his Habana.
He had lived by her aid, and to leave her behind would be cruelly, damnably to miss her. What could be more overwhelming than that?
But I used to; and he understands." "Ah, it's what I've always told you; you don't like us. And you like Beaufort because he's so unlike us." He looked about the bare room and out at the bare beach and the row of stark white village houses strung along the shore. "We're damnably dull. We've no character, no colour, no variety. I wonder," he broke out, "why you don't go back?"
The stuff that I was made of was at once damnably tough and devilishly pliant. When he thought of my impudence, in staying in his house after he had bade me leave it, he was tempted to resume his passion. When he reflected on my courage, in making light of his anger, notwithstanding his known impetuosity and my personal inferiority, he could not withhold his esteem.
A small modicum of gin, though it does not add much spirit to the water, will damnably defile a large quantity. And this gin has in it a something of flavour which will altogether deceive an uneducated palate. There is an alcoholic afflatus which mounts to the brain and surrounds the heart and permeates the veins, which for the moment is believed to be true gin.
But 't is a pity, for she is a glorious creature! Who knows but I may serve two purposes? However, one at present! business first, and pleasure afterwards; and, faith, the business is damnably like that of life and death." Muttering such thoughts as these, Crauford took his way one evening to Glendower's house. Iago. Virtue; a fig! 't is in ourselves that we are thus and thus. Othello.
The surly mate was cut squarely in two by a round shot, men screaming in rage and pain went down and the captain staggered, but recovered himself. Then he shouted to the steersman to put the schooner about and rushing among the sailors he ordered them to another task than that of boarding. "It was a trick, and it trapped us most damnably!" he cried. "A fool I was!
"Can't you understand? I ought never to have come into her life at all. I've only messed things up for her damnably. The least I can do is to clear out of it so that she'll never regret my going. . . . I've gone under, and a man who's gone under had better stay there."
I have no business to interfere no more than your gardener or coachman! but to think of an angel like you in the arms of a " "Major Marvel!" "I beg ten thousand pardons, cousin Hester! but I am so damnably in earnest I can't pick and choose my phrases. Believe me the man is not worthy of you." "What have you got against him? I do hate backbiting! As his friend I ask you what you have against him."
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