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But with this her thumping had ceased; she was known to be as lax in her government as the father was strict in his. She was a little woman, with large, soft black eyes, with a dumb look of endurance about the lips and a drawl in her subdued voice. She had not made herself, her loving, rough boys, and her stern, faultfinding husband, had moulded not only her features, but her character.
Without meaning to be impolite, but just because of a passion for cold facts, I may say that women are faultfinding." "I'm sure," said Miss Norton sweetly, "that I shall consider your luncheon perfect." "They get more faultfinding as they get older," replied Mr. Peters ungallantly, glancing at the other woman. Mrs. Norton glared. "Meaning me, I suppose," she rasped. "Well, don't worry.
"It is all we have, and you told me " Gordon broke in irritably: "My dear Gloria, spare me this painful faultfinding. If I can win for you, I shall do so, and then you will agree that I acted wisely. If I lose it will merely be the luck of the average investor. We played for big returns, and of course the risks were great." "But Mr. O'Neil told her his claims " Gordon's blazing eyes warned her.
As there was so much cavilling and faultfinding on the part of many of the Equal Rights Association at every forward and radical step taken by Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton, they formed an independent committee of themselves, Elizabeth Smith Miller, daughter of Gerrit Smith, Mrs.
With the country folk of the pre-revolutionary era, the faultfinding and dispute related always to political questions proper to questions of rights as between the king and his subjects; to questions of institutional forms, the best method of governing, etc.
She knew, too, that to hide these facts her aunt would probably seize the first opportunity for faultfinding, and make her anger a cloak to hide the fact that her heart was breaking.
He would not have been an Excise officer very long had he been unable to attend to his duties. William Wallace, the editor of Chambers's Burns, has studied very carefully this period of the poet's life, and found that in those days of petty faultfinding he has not once been reprimanded, either for drunkenness or for dereliction of duty.
To understand the position of Germany, let us suppose that our Civil War had left our Union as at one time seemed likely embracing merely a small number of Middle States and covering a space about as large as Texas, with a Confederacy on our southern boundary bitterly hostile, another hostile nation extending from the west bank of the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains; a Pacific confederation jealous and faultfinding; British dominions to the northward vexed by commercial and personal grievances; and New England a separate and doubtful factor in the whole situation.
"Too much, mama," Chichi would protest. "They will take you for a pawnbroker's lady!" But the Creole, satisfied with her splendor, the crowning glory of a humble life, attributed her daughter's faultfinding to envy. Chichi was only a girl now, but later on she would thank her for having collected all these gems for her. Already the home was unable to accommodate so many purchases.
My desolate neglect seemed to me a paradise compared to that contact with a millstone under which her soul was ground until the day when her good aunt, her true mother, had saved her from this misery, the ever-recurring pain of which she now related to me; misery caused sometimes by incessant faultfinding, always intolerable to high-strung natures which do not shrink before death itself but die beneath the sword of Damocles; sometimes by the crushing of generous impulses beneath an icy hand, by the cold rebuffal of her kisses, by a stern command of silence, first imposed and then as often blamed; by inward tears that dared not flow but stayed within the heart; in short, by all the bitterness and tyranny of convent rule, hidden to the eyes of the world under the appearance of an exalted motherly devotion.
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