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Willoughby, and seated herself beside Mallinson in one of the windows. 'I see nothing of you now, she said, and she looked the reproach of the hardly-used. 'I thought we had agreed to be friends? Mallinson sighed wearily. 'I will come and call some day, he said dejectedly. 'I have not so many friends that I can afford a loss, she answered pathetically; and then, 'Tell me about yourself.
At any rate, whatever, as coming from the god, was imparted to those present, seemed to be generally of a complimentary nature—a fact which illustrates the sagacity of Kolory, or else the time-serving disposition of this hardly-used deity.
Emilia, to make sure of the thing she dreaded, forced the note, and would not be denied. What voice there was in her came to the summons. It issued, if I may so express it, ragged, as if it had torn through a briar-hedge: then there was a whimper of tones, and the effect was like the lamentation of a hardly-used urchin, lacking a certain music that there is in his undoubted heartfelt earnestness.
So great had been the strain upon that hardly-used animal that he did not go into his usual "flurry," but calmly expired without the faintest struggle. In the mean time two of our boats had been sent on board again to work the ship, while the skipper proceeded to try his luck in the recovery of his gear.
He was, no doubt, prepared to be morally indignant, morally very indignant, at the Askerton iniquity; but he did not like the word contamination as applied to his future wife. 'Frederic, said his mother, later on the same day when the hardly-used groom had returned from his futile afternoon's inquiry at the neighbouring post town, 'I think you should do something in this affair.
Her teeth were broken and in bad repair, though clean, and her hands had the worn, hardly-used look of his own mother's hands. Now that she sat before him in the restaurant, in some vague way she resembled his mother. After dinner he sat smoking his cigar and looking at the fire. The woman of the streets leaned across the table and touched him on the arm.
"Surely not, surely not," said the doctor; and a vision crossed him of this beautiful and simple girl he was speaking to marrying some coarse working-man, and being made a hardly-used drudge of to the end of her days; and he determined it should not be. He determined it should not be: surely, she was born for some better fate.
Tom looked, as he felt, very unhappy; Dicky Duff and Billy Blueblazes, especially, thought him a hardly-used individual though his older messmates were more inclined to laugh than to sympathise with him.
He had cheerfully accepted the task of finding that lost, aggrieved, perhaps hardly-used brother, to whom his heart went out as he gazed on the likeness of what he once had been. But now! To abdicate in favour of this blackguard.
He threw himself down by her chair, and drew down the hands in which she had hidden her face. "Matilda, my poor, hardly-used darling!" he said, "I've come back alone! I've got rid of her, Tillie! I'm free; and there's no one to stand between us any more!" She pushed back her disordered fair hair, and looked at him with sweet, troubled eyes. "But you went away with her for ever?" she said.
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