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"And you mean to tell me," said the gentle voice of the Divorcée at his elbow, "that you calmly face the idea of the hundreds of thousands of men, well and strong to-day dead to-morrow, the thought of the mothers who have borne their sons in pain, and bred them in love, only to fling them before the cannon?" "For what, after all, are we born?" said the Doctor.
His tone was so gentle that she was disarmed though still annoyed. "Come in. I may perhaps point out that it's a long time since you've come to see me like this, Coryston." "Yes. Never mind. What shall I read?" She pointed to a number of the Quarterly that was lying open, and to an article on "The later years of Disraeli." Coryston winced. He knew the man who had written it, and detested him.
The countess could have swooned with terror, for she knew that now she was doomed to an unhappy life, whichever of these knights prevailed. For though the Earl of Drood was soft and gentle in speech and manner, she feared that this but covered a wicked heart. She could hardly bear to look as she heard these two, the last of all the ninety-nine, crash together in the midst of the jousting-ground.
Her whole face changed, and her mournful eyes grew soft as with the gentle freedom of a child she lifted Christie's downcast face and said, with a falter in her voice: "I know you were pitying me. Well, I need pity, and from you I'll take it, because you don't force it on me. Have you been ill and wretched too? I think so, else you would never care to come and shut yourself up here with me!"
But this was not all Petruchio intended to bring her to, and he replied, "The poorest service is repaid with thanks, and so shall mine before you touch the meat." On this Katharine brought out a reluctant "I thank you, sir." And now he suffered her to make a slender meal, saying, "Much good may it do your gentle heart, Kate; eat apace!
"Bow before me now, Wagner, or I shall destroy us all," he demanded with a grim smile that showed his resolution. Wagner did as he commanded and fell to his knees in front of Bernibus, saying in the same gentle, appeasing voice that he had first used on me, "My dear Bernibus, do not be rash, do not act in anger.
Draper's very open comments on her rôle in the life of the other girl, and at first had been so smitten by embarrassment as positively to be awkward, a rare event in her life: but she was soon set at ease by the other girl's gentle friendliness, so simple and sincere that even Sylvia's suspicious vanity could not feel it to be condescension.
"It was not here nor amidst the streets and the noisy abodes of anxious, worldly men nor was it in this harsh and dreary season of the year, that I could have wished to look my last on earth. Could I have seen the face of Nature could I have watched once more with the summer sun amidst those gentle scenes we loved so well, Death would have had no difference from sleep. But what matters it?
Viglius van Aytta van Zuichem was a learned Frisian, born, according to some writers, of "boors' degree, but having no inclination for boorish work". According to other authorities, which the President himself favored, he was of noble origin; but, whatever his race, it is certain that whether gentle or simple, it derived its first and only historical illustration from his remarkable talents and acquirements.
Blame me as much as I blame myself; be as angry as you please, or as you can, my gentle friend: but at last you must pity and forgive me. "Now that all this affair is off my mind, I can sleep in peace: and so, I hope, will you, my dear Emilie Good night! If friends never quarrelled, they would never taste the joys of reconciliation. Believe me, "Your ever sincere and affectionate
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