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Updated: June 1, 2025
God save you from ever being obliged to beat in a game of chess, whose stake is your life, you having but four poor pawns and pieces and your adversary with his full force unshorn. But if you are, provided you have any strength with breadth of will, do not despair. Though mesmeric power may not save you, it may help you; try it at all events.
There was in it hardly enough nourishment to sustain them. Then came the day when Ma Minick went downtown to see Matthews about that pain right here and came home looking shrivelled, talking shrilly about nothing, and evading Pa's eyes. Followed months that were just a jumble of agony, X-rays, hope, despair, morphia, nothingness.
And as the other made a half-gesture of despair, "You must give me more time," he said; "I may find some clue in the course of the next two or three days. By the by, is your cousin a short man?" "No," said Mark, "he's about my height. Why do you ask?" "Oh, I had an idea," said Gimblet evasively. "But if he's as tall as you, I had better begin again.
We would not have been greatly surprised had we met the shining feet of an angel among the white mushrooms upon the mountains, for we knew in those days immense despair, unfathomed love every eternal mood, but now the draw-net is about our feet.
Surely, if her thoughts wandered so far along the backward current of her life, she must have repented in bitterness and despair of that first day in which the master-passions of her life had become her rulers, and the three demons of Vanity, Selfishness, and Ambition, had joined hands and said, "This woman is our slave, let us see what she will become under our guidance."
"Well!" cried the Englishman, smiling with pleasure; "that is turned as adroitly as a woman of thirty." "And am I not to have one?" asked the king, his eyes full of paternal love and pride. "They are for your Majesty's table," she answered. "Your Majesty!" cried the king in mimic despair. "Was ever a father treated thus? Your Majesty!
"And yet the mere thought of the circumstances connected with his death seems almost to drive you to the verge of despair." "You are right; the mere thought has that effect." "You have aroused all my curiosity to know the causes of such a feeling." Varney paced the apartment in silence for many minutes.
Had you suffered Mr Blifil to have sent his compliments to my niece, and to have desired the favour of waiting on her in the afternoon, I should possibly have prevailed on her to have seen him; but now I despair of bringing about any such matter."
The child is affected not only by the outward expression of the mother's fear and anxiety, but likewise by the hidden doubt and despair in the mother's mind and soul.
In the momentary energy of despair she roused her husband rudely from the bed, and bade him, in an excited tone, to go and get some bread for the children: The brute, angered by her words and manner, struck her a blow upon the head, which brought her senseless to the floor.
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