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Updated: June 27, 2025
I, Madame, have the misfortune to be that most miserable and most God-forsaken of living beings, a confirmed gambler." The Count spoke in a tone of stifled pain, almost anger, and Sylvia gazed up at his stern, sad face with pity and concern filling her kind heart.
Of all the starved, God-forsaken critturs as I've ever seed they're 'bout the worst!" They were.
A fine soldier and administrator, just a policeman; a splendid man, just a missionary. And you and your brother just grubbing about in a God-forsaken mine, apparently for nothing. It is enough to make anyone wild." And she faced him with that smouldering indignation she rarely allowed to come to the surface.
This may seem strange, for it is usually found that even in the case of the most noted outlaws there is a woman or a man, or both who cling to them with affection. Perhaps the fact that Jake was exceptionally harsh and cruel at all times, may account for this, as it accounted for his sobriquet of Flint. He was called by some of those who knew him a "God-forsaken man."
As for her history, Vyell picked her up in a God-forsaken fishing town, some leagues up the coast; brought her home; placed her under gouvernante and tutors; finally espoused her. Stay: finally he has built a palace for her, "Eagles" by name, whither he forces all Boston to pay its homage.
I had almost said "God-forsaken" too, but something began to shape itself in my mind about that time, that makes it difficult for me now to say this. Rather, as I look back on our experience, I feel more like claiming fellowship with the "wanderer" who called the place of his hardship "Bethel" because it was there, at the end of self and of favoring conditions, that he found God.
Nor twenty thousand; so don't you go offerin' it to me. I should like to tell Andy you was offerin' it, though." The man laughed out. "I was thinking of it," he said. Uncle William leaned forward, looking at him. "What are you so set on buyin' my place for? It's a God-forsaken spot most folks would call it. Andy does." "I like it," said the man. "So do I," said Uncle William.
I'm bound to say I couldn't quite follow the development of the scenario. Bingo, while not absolutely rolling in the stuff, has always had a fair amount of the ready. Apart from what he got from his uncle, I knew that he had finished up the jumping season well on the right side of the ledger. Why, then, was he lunching the girl at this God-forsaken eatery? It couldn't be because he was hard up.
Twelve months without a ship, and this hateful, God-forsaken island turning into a pest-house. 'Wasa is pesta-house, Tom? 'Place where they put people in to die lazzaretto, charnel-house, morgue, living grave! Oh, go away, girl, go to the blarsted church if you want to, and leave me alone. Her slender fingers touched his hand timidly. 'I don' wan' go to church, Tom.
Davies sometimes broke into a little run, muttering 'scoundrel' to himself. 'I was right only upside down, he murmured more than once. 'Always really right those channels are the key to the whole concern. Chatham, our only eastern base no North Sea base or squadron they'd land at one of those God-forsaken flats off the Crouch and Blackwater. 'It seems a wild scheme, I observed. 'Wild? In a way.
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