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Updated: July 12, 2025
Everybody came and told her one. All these girls whom she knew, had histories; troubles, perplexities, wrongs, temptations, greater or less. Gradually, they all confessed to her. The wrong side of the world's patchwork looked ugly to her, sometimes. Now, here came Bel Bree; with her story, and her little leather bag; her homelessness, her friendlessness.
But Cynthia's heart was sadder than it had been in the days of her friendlessness and poverty. She rang the bell and asked for Mrs. Jenkins, who appeared almost at once and led the girl into Hubert's deserted sitting-room. "Oh, miss, I'm so glad you have come!" she said. "For we can't get Mr.
Not to my mother: I was certain I could not remain long with her, without being known to the priests. My friendlessness and utter helplessness, with the dread of being murdered in the Convent, added to thoughts of the shame which must await me if I lived a few months, made me take a desperate resolution, and I hurried to put it into effect.
And there was a pathetic request at the end of the letter that his son Diego might be sent out to him. As I have said, Columbus was by this time a prematurely old man, and feeling the clouds gathering about him, and the loneliness and friendlessness of his position at Espanola, he instinctively looked to the next generation for help, and to the presence of his own son for sympathy and comfort.
When the longer term has expired, the latter almost always prefer the servitude to which they are accustomed to an independent life of solitude and friendlessness." "And what becomes," I asked, "of the younger men who must enter the world without property, without parents or protectors?" "We are, after youth has passed, an indolent race.
Grief at the injury inflicted upon her husband and a feeling of friendlessness in a foreign land, had hastened her end. Another indignation meeting was held and Mr. Wood was dismissed from the service of the company. Mr. Robinson became despondent and after a few months decided to leave the country. The war with Chile was still on. The Peruvian army suffered defeat after defeat.
Ah, well, do not repine. Do not forget that God's call comes often Oh, so often to just such as you to witness for Him in spite of "these bonds," to declare the truth, to dare to reprove sin. Above all, do not doubt your God. You may be very dependent to-day, but you may be more than victorious to-morrow. Poverty and friendlessness are often found in company with a great heart.
She had early confided to him the story of her short life of her solitude and friendlessness; of the mother who had died five years before, bequeathing to her the little house which had been the last gift of the Englishman who had been O Hara San's father and who had tired of her mother and left her two years after her own birth; of the poverty against which they had struggled for the Englishman had left no provision for them; of the faithful old servant, who had been her mother's nurse; of O Hara San's discovery of her own artistic talent which had enabled her to provide for the simple wants of the little household.
Ever since he had come in sight of Valmy an uncomfortable sense of friendlessness had haunted him with the unreasoning horror of a nightmare, and Beaufoy's welcoming smile was like the wakening into sunshine. "Dieu merci! but I am thankful you have come," he said, but speaking softly so that no sounds passed through the curtained door at his back.
Moreover, Lucy was forgiving by nature; and had she not been, the helplessness and friendlessness of the lonely soul before her would have presented a powerful plea for pity. Ellen did not respond to the words. "What was the trouble?" went on Lucy, after waiting a suitable length of time and sensing that no answer was to be forthcoming. "Were you in pain?"
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