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Updated: May 16, 2025
We call it charity, beneficence, and other fine names, this brutish Workhouse Scheme of ours; and it is but sluggish heartlessness, and insincerity, and cowardly lowness of soul. Making this our struggling 'Twelfth Hour of the Night' inexpressibly hideous!
I would have been your true and pure wife to the end of time, though I had been surrounded by a legion of tempters. The mad folly that the world calls love had never had any part in my madness, and here at least extremes met, and the vice of heartlessness became the virtue of constancy.
One of the first circumstances that opened my eyes to the cruelty and wickedness of slavery, and the heartlessness of my old master, was the refusal of the latter to interpose his authority, to protect and shield a young woman, who had been most cruelly abused and beaten by his overseer in Tuckahoe. This overseer a Mr.
Under cover of independent thought, of serious moral theories, did he conceal mere profligacy and heartlessness? It was an extraordinary thing to have to ask such questions in relation to herself. It made her feel as if she had to learn herself anew, to form a fresh conception of her personality. She the object of a man's passion! And the thought was exultant.
Once Randolph might have been flattered at this. But her speech seemed to him only an echo of the general heartlessness. "I found Miss Eversleigh very sympathetic over the fate of the unfortunate man, whom nobody else here seems to care for," said Randolph coldly.
But alas! what security had she that a man capable of such priestly sevei'ity and heartlessness her terrors made her thus inconsequent would not himself betray the all but innocent sufferer to the vengeance of justice so called? No; she would venture no farther.
To Magdalen Fay's present joy seemed like a bit of Venetian glass on the extreme edge of a cabinet at a child's elbow. It is difficult for those who have imagination to understand the insouciance which looks so like heartlessness of the unimaginative.
Shortly after this he had been sent East to college and had borne the separation with a fortitude that had rather surprised him when he recalled how bitter a thing her heartlessness had seemed. When they met again he had found her more alluring than ever, but more devoted to her pleasures also; and then Marshall Langham had come into her life.
"I did not know you then," I answered harshly. "And do you know me now? Has womanhood no mysteries for you since you gathered wisdom in the wilderness?" I looked at her with detestation in my eyes. The effrontery, the ease and insolence of her bearing, all confirmed my conviction of her utter shamelessness and heartlessness.
Rousing me from my sleep like that! And then, early this morning, Marcia telephoned herself and said that she could not possibly be at home before evening. Imagine! The thoughtlessness, the heartlessness of such a thing! "But that," resignedly, "that was a mere drop in the bucket. I wish her father were alive!
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