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Updated: May 3, 2025
There may be nobler, there may be happier, ways of awaiting the end but whether "revelling" or "refraining," we are all waiting the end. Waiting and listening, half-bitterly, half-eagerly, seems the lot of man upon earth! And meanwhile that
By a retort of this kind I admit that I hoped greatly to embarrass the Bishop, and enjoy seeing his face redden with confusion. But he was nowise disconcerted, and I confess to-day that this circumstance proved to me that there was but little truth in the rumours that were current with regard to this subject. "Mademoiselle de Mauleon!" said he, smiling half-bitterly, half-pityingly.
In all this there was nothing dramatic nor even startling to her. Nor did there seem to be any present danger impending to the man. He did not look like a horse-thief nor a criminal. And he had tried to laugh, half-apologetically, half-bitterly, the consciousness of a man who had to ask help of a woman at such a moment. She gave a quick glance towards the house.
He pronounces Folly something broadish like Fol-lay, I believe; but it means all the same thing. Folly is folly, pronounce it as you will." Nelson continued to pace his cabin, working the stump of his arm, and smiling half-bitterly; half in a sort of irony that inclined him to be in a good-humor with himself.
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