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A strange indescribable feeling had come over me, and an irresistible desire to disburden my mind to the excellent man before me. I sat down. "Hey day," quoth Bang, as he laid down his coffee cup; "why, Tom, what ails you? You look deuced pale, my boy." "Up all night, sir, and bothered all day," said I; "wearied enough, I can tell you."
Disburden it, said I? I shall load it, I fear, with sadness, but I will not regret an undertaking which my duty to you makes indispensable. One of the earliest incidents that I remember is an expostulation with my father. I saw several strange people enter the chamber where my mother was.
If there be any future service that I can render to the country, consistently with these sentiments and opinions, I shall cheerfully render it. If there be not, I shall still be glad to have had an opportunity to disburden myself from the bottom of my heart, and to make known every political sentiment that therein exists. And now, Mr.
He renewed his inquiries; my heart was full, but how to disburden it I knew not. At length, with some difficulty, I expressed my wishes to leave his house and return into the country. What, he asked, had occurred to suggest this new plan? What motive could incite me to bury myself in rustic obscurity? How did I purpose to dispose of myself?
Some evenings previously, when Mary and Angus had gone out for a walk together, he had taken the opportunity to disburden his "workman's coat" of all the banknotes contained in the lining, and, folding them up in one parcel, had put them in a sealed envelope, which envelope he marked in a certain fashion, enclosing it in the larger envelope which contained his will.
Jonathan Cilley once said: "I love Hawthorne; I admire him; but I do not know him. Long-continued thinking is sure to take effect at last, either in words or in action, and Hawthorne's mind had to disburden itself in some manner. So, after the failure of "Fanshawe," he returned to his original plan of writing short stories, and this time with success.
Butler, who tyrannized over her as is the usual fashion in such cases. The day was a glorious one, and from where Miss Peters sat she could get a splendid view of the bright and sparkling harbor. Little boats skimmed about on its surface, and Miss Peters longed to be in one of them anywhere away from the tyrannical sister who would not allow her to go out and disburden herself of her news.
Thus equipped he advanced to his antagonist, and desired him to choose his ground; upon which Lord B told him, that if he must fall, it was not material which grave he should tumble over. "Our little hero, finding him so jocose and determined, turned to Lord A , and desired to speak with him, that he might disburden his conscience before they should begin the work of death.
'Yes! continued Ferdinand; 'this is the end of all your care, all your affection, all your hopes, all your sacrifices. It is over; our house is fated; my life draws to an end. 'Speak, my Ferdinand, said Glastonbury, for his pupil seemed to have relapsed into moody silence, 'speak to your friend and father. Disburden your mind of the weight that presses on it.
I am a very bad casuist; and the pleasure I take in writing to you, who are the only one to whom I can disburden my mind, may make me, as I have hinted, very partial to my own wishes: else, if it were not an artful evasion beneath an open and frank heart to wish to be complied with, I would be glad methinks to be permitted still to write to you; and only to have such occasional returns by Mr.
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