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Well, don't be afraid of hurting my feelings. Only, you know, between us, as between more doubtful people, the door must be either open or shut. I fancy you take cold easily; perhaps you had better shut the door." "Not for worlds," Alicia said, with promptitude. Then she added rather cleverly, "That would be my spoiling my one view of life." Hilda smiled. "Isn't there any life where you live?"

Early in their work, the women of the "Union," seeing how largely the medical prescription of alcohol was hurting the cause of temperance, and being in possession of the latest results of chemical and physiological investigation in regard to its specific action on the body, sent delegations to various State medical associations at their annual meetings, urging them to pass resolutions defining its true status as a food or a medicine and discouraging its use in the profession.

And the lad was delighted that the bear had walked away without hurting the saint, and that Christ was with him too. “Ah,” said he, “how good that is, how good and beautiful is all God’s work!” He sat musing softly and sweetly. I saw he understood. And he slept beside me a light and sinless sleep. May God bless youth! And I prayed for him as I went to sleep.

"To show you that I do not want to lay you under one," said Gray, "I'll tell you how you can do as much for me, and ten times as much, as I have done for you; and this without hurting yourself or any of your employers a penny." "Say how, and it shall be done."

Wanda exclaims, "you are hurting me! just you wait I will teach you." She strikes me with the whip, but now the shoe is off. "Now get out!" Still a kick and then I can go to bed. To-night I accompanied her to a soiree. In the entrance-hall she ordered me to help her out of her furs; then with a proud smile, confident of victory, she entered the brilliantly illuminated room.

No, my dear; she would be afraid of giving me too much pleasure by touching me so near." "And I am only afraid of hurting you. Is that right? Good heavens! what a state your skin is in!" "You have not finished yet." "I am so short-sighted; turn round." "With pleasure. Here I am." The little wanton could not resist laughing at what she saw, doubtless, for the first time.

'He disappeared, corrected Madame, 'but it was never proved that he was dead. He was a revengeful, wicked man, and if he could have killed me, without hurting himself, he would, and rising from her seat she paced up and down the room slowly.

When she tormented herself, it was not in any hope of advantage to be gained in the next world, but came only from a cruel boredom which rebounded against herself, so that she only found in it an almost angry pleasure in hurting herself. Singularly enough, her hard, cold spirit was, like her grandmother's, open to the influence of music, though she never knew how profound that influence was.

He offered to relieve you from any embarrassments, if you had any; but I, having too much delicacy and pride to let my son put himself under pecuniary obligations, hastily answered, that you had no debts; for there was no other reply to be made, without offending poor Palmer, and hurting his generous feelings, which I would not do for the universe: and I considered too, that as all Palmer's fortune will come to us in the end "

It was as if Treadwell were hurting little Cyn as she sat in her window-seat with her dear face turned toward them. "Come, sit down, Lans. You are as nervous as a ghost-candle." "Thanks!" Treadwell took a chair across the hearth from his host. "There's a devil of a storm rising out of doors." "They're right common this season of the year.