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Updated: June 25, 2025
Young women have died of broken hearts before now. You have no right to endanger her life by risking failure. Answer me that, if you can, and I will grant you are a cunning sophist, but not a good lover." "There is reason in what you say now," he answered. "I had not thought of that desperateness of the case which you speak of. You have seen her."
The hours left him were few, and his impatience had grown to the point of desperateness now. He bowed and held out the paper, saying: "Perhaps you have not seen this morning's newspaper?" At the same time he presented her the note.
In the open they had never attacked save when the prey was weak or defenceless. In place of courage, they had lived by creeping, and slinking, and hiding from danger. They had been selected blindly by nature, in a cruel and ignoble environment, where the prize of living was to be gained, in the main, by the cunning of cowardice, and, on occasion, by desperateness of defence when in a corner.
The desperateness of my condition was, for a moment, forgotten. The weapon which was so lately lifted against my own bosom was now raised to defend my life against the assault of another. There was no time for deliberation and delay. In a moment he might spring from his station and tear me to pieces.
His indiscretion in overfilling the stove had caused the fire, and in that other moment when he might have snatched up more than the bearskin his mind had failed to act. In the short space he stood there helplessly in the red heat of the fire the desperateness of the situation seared itself like the hot flame itself in his brain.
It would look real neat, though. I'd like to do it." Mercy endured her mother's help in packing for one day. Then the desperateness of the trouble suggested a remedy. Selecting a large, strong box, she had it carried into the garret. "There, mother," she said, "now you can pack in this box all the old lumber of all sorts which you want to carry.
The manifold torment of the psychologist who has discovered this ruination, who discovers once, and then discovers ALMOST repeatedly throughout all history, this universal inner "desperateness" of higher men, this eternal "too late!" in every sense may perhaps one day be the cause of his turning with bitterness against his own lot, and of his making an attempt at self-destruction of his "going to ruin" himself.
I haven't had a photograph taken since I was a medical student, and I wasn't prepared for so short a trial. But, even so, I felt the desperateness of the situation. Doubtless that will show plainly in the final result." "Mine is a discreet camera, and doesn't tell all it sees, so it is possible it may keep your reluctance disguised."
Notwithstanding the desperateness of our situation, however, there was not one of us so paralyzed by fear, but that we fully realized the horror of it all. Poor Ruby, indeed, is lost and gone, but his last words were productive of serious consequences.
Besides, another time, being in the field with one of my companions, it chanced that an adder passed over the highway; so I, having a stick in my hand, struck her over the back; and having stunned her, I forced open her mouth with my stick, and plucked her sting out with my fingers; by which act, had not God been merciful unto me, I might, by my desperateness, have brought myself to mine end.
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