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Updated: May 14, 2025
I do not regret her except when I am tipsy or bored or listening to music, and wish to fancy myself the picturesque victim of a flint-hearted world. Which is a romantic lie; I move like a man of card-board in a card-board world.
Burlingham did not let her off until she was ready to drop with exhaustion. And after supper, when they were floating slowly on, well out of the channel where they might be run down by some passing steamer with a flint-hearted captain or pilot, she had to go at it again. She went to bed early, and she slept without a motion or a break until the odor of the cooking breakfast awakened her.
"I didn't think!" A woman flings the whiteness of her reputation in the dust, and, waking to the realization of her loss when the cruel glare of the world's disapproval reveals it, she seeks to plead her thoughtlessness as an entreaty of the world's pardon. But the flint-hearted world is slow to grant it, if she be a woman.
"These men with you in the snow 'ud sooner follow Ned Rackham, flint-hearted though he be, than to rejoin the Revenge." "Not so loud," cautioned the coxswain. "We'll see which way the cat is going to jump. Us poor devils is sore uneasy at findin' how you were dealt with." "What of the master and crew of the snow?" asked Tobey. "Were they snuffed out? That 'ud be Rackham's way."
On the one side here is a silly, flint-hearted, evil-minded, sulky old woman, necessary to no one on the contrary, pernicious to all and who does not know herself why she lives." "Well?" said the officer. "Hear me further. On the other hand, young fresh strength droops and is lost for want of sustenance; this is the case with thousands everywhere!
How they suffered from scheming brothers who had robbed them of their titles and estates, or flint-hearted fathers who had turned them out of doors because of their infatuation for their "art" or because of their love for some dame of noble birth or simple lass, whose name "Me boy, will be forever sacred!"
On the one side here is a silly, flint-hearted, evil-minded, sulky old woman, necessary to no one on the contrary, pernicious to all and who does not know herself why she lives." "Well?" said the officer. "Hear me further. On the other hand, young fresh strength droops and is lost for want of sustenance; this is the case with thousands everywhere!
Meanwhile, the landed estates of these absentee lords were in charge of flint-hearted agents, whose sole mission was to squeeze money from the peasants, to make them pay well for mill, bridge, and oven, to press to the uttermost every claim which might give the absent master a larger revenue.
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