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He did not like it; and later, when they were alone, Warburton was distinctly impressed with Pierre's displeasure. "You can not please her, and you can not please me. Bah! Zat ees vat comes uf teaching a groom table manners instead uf stable manners. And you vill smell uf horse! I do not understand Mees Annesley; no!" And there were other humiliations, petty ones.
The sufferings of his own pride from humiliations past and to come were keen enough, yet they were hardly distinguishable to himself from that more acute pain which dominated them the pain of foreseeing that Rosamond would come to regard him chiefly as the cause of disappointment and unhappiness to her.
The contest had steeped him in humiliations which stuck to him like mud-stains. The week before, he had written to Ferrier, imploring him if possible to come and speak for him or at least to write a letter; humbling his pride; and giving elaborate explanations of the line which he had taken.
"I know nothing of Gabriel Nietzel!" cried the count, "I only know that you have called my father a murderer and " "And, I did wrong in this, for certainly the murderous deed miscarried! I live! And he was forced to die. Do you know of what your father died?" "Of grief, and the humiliations which you prepared for him!" "No, he died of remorse. A stroke, they say, put an end to his life.
"You mean that she professes to act on the new theories? The stuff that awful women rave about on platforms?" "Oh, I don't think she pretended to have a theory " "She hadn't even that excuse?" "She had the excuse of her loneliness, her unhappiness of miseries and humiliations that a woman like you can't even guess.
Susan took them at exactly their own valuation, revered those women who, like Ella, were supreme; watched curiously others a little less sure of their standing; and pitied and smiled at the struggles of the third group, who took rebuffs and humiliations smilingly, and fell only to rise and climb again. Susan knew that the Thayers, the Chickerings and Chaunceys and Coughs, the Saunders and the St.
No reprimand was given, therefore, to the Parliament, but it was informed that the King prohibited it from meddling with the corn question. However accustomed the Parliament, as well as all the other public bodies, might be to humiliations, it was exceedingly vexed by this treatment, and obeyed with the greatest grief.
At first they received me very kindly, that is absolutely the truth; but when they saw that I could not help despising them, you know, in these inconceivably small circumstances, they saw that I was a man absolutely different, standing far above them, they got angry with me, and began to put various little humiliations on me. And here's a proof for you!
The landing at Marseilles. The insurrection. Wild adventures. "Little Peter." Perilous wanderings. Letter to the queen. The letter returned. The traitor Deutz. Discovery and arrest. Imprisonment at Blaye. The terrible secret. The marriage announcement. Humiliations of the duchess. Comments of Louis Blanc. The duchess liberated. Death of the Duke of Reichstadt. Louis Napoleon.
It is plain that his humiliations at school, his studies in the story of liberty, his inherited bent, and the present disappointment, were all cumulative in the result of fixing his attention on his native land as the destined sphere of his activity. The Napoleon papers of the War Department were freely, and I believe entirely, put into my hands for examination.
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