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Our Saviour saith himself, also, that if we say well by them or yield them thanks who do us good, we do no great thing, and therefore can we with reason look for no great thanks in return. Whosoever thinketh on these things, and remembereth them well, shall in his tribulation neither murmur nor grudge.
It was in no spirit of unforgivingness, for he was perfectly civil; neither did he owe them any grudge, grudges being forbidden usually by dog law and only entertained by the poorest characters of all. Thus he never became familiar, even with those he met daily: his memory was phenomenal, and by passing by on the other side he showed that his associations in this direction were unhappy.
For Luke FitzHenry has a grudge against the world, and people who have that take a certain pleasure in evil weather. "The finest sailor that ever stepped," reflects the captain of his second officer and he no mean mariner himself.
"This was not the first time," Els eagerly interrupted, "that young Vorchtel tried to anger him in the presence of others; and he believed that he was justified in bearing a grudge against his former friend it was considered a settled thing that Wolff and his sister Ursula were to marry." "Until," Cordula broke in, "he gazed into your bright eyes."
News of this came to that man who was my husband. They shamed him into fighting. He had not the courage of the nobles left. But he heard of one nobleman against whom he had a special grudge; and him one night, foully and unfairly, he murdered. "News of that came to the Emperor.
But Peter Ruff did not falter. "Listen to me," said Dory. "I will tell you what grudge I bear against you. It was your entertainment of my wife which gave her the taste for luxury and for gadding about. Mind, I don't blame you for that altogether, but there the fact remains. She left me. She went on the stage." "Stop!" Peter Ruff said. "You must still hold me blameless. She wrote to me.
But after the will was signed, he changes his character, reversing his tone: "How long," says he to these very same physicians, "do you intend keeping this man in misery? Since you cannot preserve his life, why do you grudge him the happy release of death ?" Blaesus dies, and, as if he had overheard every word that Regulus had said, has not left him one farthing.
"Then kill me, my father!" said she, feebly. "Let this life end, which is but a torture, a protracted martyrdom. Punish me for my disobedience by plunging your dagger deep into my breast. Punish me, and grudge me not the repose of the grave." "Poor enthusiast!" said the father; "suppose you, we would be foolish enough to subject you to so light a punishment!
For yourself, I dread new happiness and honours; if they are added to those which Fate bestowed upon you in such a wife and your son Pyrrhus, the gods would not be themselves if they did not pursue you with their envy. I have less reason to fear them." "Ungrateful fellow!" interrupted his friend. "There will be numerous mortals to grudge you Helena.
"We must not grudge them their show of presents after their twenty- five years of married life," said Lady Caroline, gently; "it is the silver lining to their cloud." A third of the guests present were related to the Trudhams. "Lady Caroline is beginning well," murmured Courtenay Youghal. "I should hardly call twenty-five years of married life a cloud," said Henry Greech, lamely.
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