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Her conjecture is most probably right, as, since her imprisonment, this man has been endeavouring to make a sort of barter with her for her release. I am really concerned for this poor creature, who is at present a very good girl, but if she remain here she will not only be deprived of her means of living, but perhaps her morals may be irremediably corrupted.
I will be the bleeding mouth from which the gag has been torn. I will tell everything. This will be great indeed." Yes; it is fine to speak for the dumb, but to speak to the deaf is sad. And that was his second part in the drama. Alas! he had failed irremediably. The elevation in which he had believed, the high fortune, had melted away like a mirage. And what a fall!
The sound of it was worth more to me at that moment than a sheaf of testimonials, for I remembered Carlyle's dictum that there is nothing irremediably wrong with any man who can utter a hearty laugh. "All right, guvnor," came the reply, "we'll take two stalls in the front row." "Good!" I replied. "Wire just received from the Prince and Princess of Wales resigning their seats!
Vyse, it was to appear, did carry a deadly secret; but one less perilous to society than to himself. He was simply poor inexcusably, irremediably poor. Everything failed him, had always failed him: whatever he put his hand to went to bits.
The horror with which this remorseless tragedy was heard of in Paris, soon spread throughout all Europe; and from that day the name of Buonaparte was irremediably associated with the ideas of sullen revenge and tyrannic cruelty. The massacre of Jaffa had been perpetrated in a remote land, and many listened with incredulity to a tale told by the avowed enemies of the homicide.
The pair shortly disappeared in the swamp, and I was not privileged to witness the upshot of the battle; but I consoled myself with believing that Phyllis knew how far she could prudently carry her resistance, and would have the discretion to yield before her adorer's heart was irremediably broken.
Poor soul, here for so little, cast among so many hardships, filled with desires so incommensurate and so inconsistent; savagely surrounded, savagely descended, irremediably condemned to prey upon his fellow-lives.
Anyway, this assumed lordship was poor compensation for the immense disappointment of his marriage in every other respect. From the moment he and his wife took possession of their fine Beaujon residence, whatever bonds of friendship and tenderness had previously existed between them were irremediably snapped asunder.
Wolfstein lifted large eyebrows over it, and remarked to Henry, in exceptionally guttural German: "If this goes on Pimpernel's imitation will soon be completely out of date." To be out of date in Mrs. Wolfstein's opinion was to be irremediably damned.
On the other hand, he said, "These men are irremediably lost. Nothing good can come from them." He fully shared the opinion of those extreme minds which attribute to human law I know not what power of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, and who place a Styx at the base of society.
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