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Updated: June 9, 2025
I flattered myself I was not so despicably weak, for a woman. 'You might be satisfied, said Violet, her heart too full to say more. 'Not while your Sarah walks about as if nothing had happened. 'Where should any of us be but for you? said Violet, bending over her. 'There's not an inch of me fit for kissing! exclaimed Theodora, turning away.
Dinsmore and his daughter in offering to share their home with his children, came to her recollection, and all the favors received at the hands of these kindest of friends passed in review before her. Could her own mother have been kinder than Grandma Elsie? and she had repaid her this day with ingratitude, disobedience and impertinence. How despicably mean!
That a man should care for a woman whom he thinks to be bad is comprehensible; that he should wish to make her his wife is credible; that he should hope to lift her out of her condition is admirable; but that he should descend from his own high plane to stay on hers is despicably weak; while to drag down with him a girl in the very flower of her purity is a crime without a name."
Novel ideas of manliness and the world's need for it were printed on her understanding. For what could women do in aid of a good cause! She fawned: she deemed herself very despicably her hero's inferior. The thought of him enclosed her.
So home to dinner, and then to my office all the afternoon doing of business, and in the evening comes Mr. Then to prayers and to bed. 13th. Up and to St. James's, did our usual business before the Duke. and making of cables. But to see how despicably they speak of us for our using so many hands more to do anything than they do, they closing a cable with 20, that we use 60 men upon.
Before every race the jockey had a drug. But despite it he rode worse than an exercise-boy; rode despicably. The Carter Handicap had finished his deal. And with it Garrison had lost his reputation. He had done many things in his mad years of prosperity the mistakes, the faults of youth. But Billy Garrison was right when he said he was square. He never threw a race in his life.
We lack not for spring chicken or roast duck whenever there is the wish; for the best part of the year eggs are despicably common. Every low tide advertises oysters gratis, and occasionally crabs and crayfish for the picking up.
She now would not even acknowledge the force of the temptation; her plans for Frederick had all failed, and the temptation lay there a dead mockery, a mockery which had never had life in it; the lie had been so despicably foolish, seen by the light of the ensuing events, and faith in the power of truth so infinitely the greater wisdom!
Do you suppose it means nothing to me to be so despicably poor as I am? To have absolutely nothing to offer you?" She took his hand. "That's not what I mean. And you know it. Come, let us talk sensibly this afternoon, and look things straight in the face. You want to marry me, you say, and let the rest come? That is very, very good of you, and I shall never forget it.
Our cricket-field was bald about the wickets, and we played without style and disputed with the umpire; and the teaching was chiefly in the hands of a lout of nineteen, who wore ready-made clothes and taught despicably.
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