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What kind of a woman can she be to stand my bad temper for a few dollars a month!" "I think," said I, "that it's partly because she's poor, partly because she's sorry for you." He looked up with a ghastly smile. "You think she really is sorry?" Before I could answer he went on: "I'm no mawkish sentimentalist, and I won't allow anybody to be sorry for me do you hear?" "Oh, I'm not sorry for you!"
It was enigmatical and it was sinister, but those austere and commanding faces were alive. There was a stamp of faith, indomitable and resolute, in those countenances. It was harsh to the palate, the roughest wine of mysticism; but at least it was not the mawkish syrup of the early Cologne painters.
Her eyes were shining, too, but her brother's shone with a cold sweetness, mawkish as sugar-candy, while hers had the glow of youth, proud and beautiful. She conquered me on the first day of our acquaintance, and indeed it was inevitable.
It does not help on the world if we go about everywhere slobbering with forgiveness and affection; it is the most mawkish sentimentality to love people in such a way that we condone grave faults in them; and to condone a fault because a man is great, when we condemn it if he is not great, is only a species of snobbishness.
In particular our universities, which in the 'eighties and 'nineties were darkly lit by a few flaring torches of mawkish romance, have been illumined for the imagination by a series of stories that already begin to make the undergraduate comprehend his place in one of the richest streams of history, and graduates to understand their youth.
Over all the world it would maintain justice, order, a noble peace, and it would do this without indignation, without resentment, without mawkish tenderness or individualized enthusiasm or any queen of beauty. It is of a cold austere quality, commanding sometimes admiration but having small hold upon the affections of men.
Not to grow mawkish while we must be kind, let us not forget that this woman is an old plotter. If she did not devise the assassination, she was privy to it long.
Close by him was a dog, which watched him very attentively. "'What can you give me for supper? the gentleman inquired of the hostess. "'Some eggs, was the reply. "'No; they are too mawkish. "'A rabbit? "'That is too indigestible. "The attention of the dog seemed to become more and more directed to the conversation. "'Some ham? the woman added. "'No, said Mr.
It was accordingly agreed that his offer should be accepted, and he was introduced by Santerre to his four confederates. "Sit down, my friend," said Barrere, "sit down. Our colleague here informs us that you are sick of these mawkish royalists, and are willing to serve the Republic. Is it so, young man?" "I have told M. Santerre " said Denot.
There is an entire absence of mawkish sentimentality, of effort to conceal the secret motives and desires of the heart beneath specious language and words of double meaning. On the contrary, they tear away from the heart the curtain of deceit, artifice and treachery, to expose the nature of the machinery behind the scenes.
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