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You know it mortifies me, Kathleen it certainly does. One of these fine days some facetious pig will send me shinning up a tree!" He grew madder at the speculative indignity. "By ginger! I'm going to have a shooting party before the snow flies," he muttered, walking forward between Kathleen and his sister. "Keep your eyes out ahead; we may jump another at any time, as the wind is all right.
"It has been a very agreeable day," said Miss Bennet to Elizabeth. "The party seemed so well selected, so suitable one with the other. I hope we may often meet again." Elizabeth smiled. "Lizzy, you must not do so. You must not suspect me. It mortifies me. I assure you that I have now learnt to enjoy his conversation as an agreeable and sensible young man, without having a wish beyond it.
She takes so little interest in people outside the family, and it really mortifies me to see how silent and stiff she is in company. She always has some excuse to stay at home. She can never overcome her reticence unless she goes out more. Oh, May, I wish she were more like you!" As Alida lay up-stairs, battling with her tears and a throbbing headache, a note was brought to her.
They take up no cross, neither mortify the flesh by holy fasting, but cherish and feed it as the lost heathen do. Are they holy men following in the footsteps of the Crucified Lord? All that brings them to me is a care for my oblations and gifts. I know them, I know them all, the whole lot of them here in Nuremberg. As the city is, so are the pastors thereof! Which of them all mortifies himself?
Cohen lay back in his chair and laughed heartily. "Do not mind him, Mr. Breen, do not mind a word he says. He mortifies me that same way. And now " here he turned his head to Peter "what does he think of my race?" "Oh! He thinks you are a lot of money-getters and pawnbrokers, gouging the poor and squeezing the rich." Jack broke out into a cold perspiration: "Really, Uncle Peter! Now, Mr.
It is no contradiction to see those who most eagerly courted society in their youth shrink from it the most sensitively in their age; for they who possess certain advantages, and are morbidly vain of them, will naturally be disposed to seek that sphere for which those advantages are best calculated: and when youth and its concomitants depart, the vanity so long fed still remains, and perpetually mortifies them by recalling not so much the qualities they have lost, as the esteem which those qualities conferred; and by contrasting not so much their own present alteration, as the change they experience in the respect and consideration of others.
He receives many novices Instructs and models them Sends them to different provinces of Italy What he says on this occasion He departs for Tuscany, and passes by Perugia, where he makes a prediction which is accomplished Many young men enter his Order They build a house for him near Cortona His miraculous fast during Lent He commands the devils, and they obey him He cures many miraculously He preaches at Florence Makes a prediction Preaches in various places in Tuscany What his friars are doing in other places He preaches the Lent at Assisi, with great fruit He consecrates, to Jesus Christ, Clare, and, Agnes, her sister Establishes Clare and Agnes in the Church of S. Damian He erects a monastery there, the first one of his second Order, which he then instituted He is troubled by a serious doubt, on which he consults his brethren His doubt is cleared up by an oracle from heaven He goes out to preach Restores a blind girl to sight, and converts many worldly people He sighs for martyrdom Asks permission of the Pope to preach to the infidels Makes conversions at Rome, and establishes his Order there Returns to Assisi and leaves for the Levant Embarks, but is obliged to put into a harbor in Sclavonia Goes by sea to Ancona A miracle which God performs in his favor He converts a celebrated poet Returns to Tuscany, and to S. Mary of the Angels He falls sick Wonderfully humbles himself Tries a vocation Falls sick again and writes to all Christians Departs for Spain and Africa, in search of martyrdom His miracles and other particulars of his journey His profound humility He raises the dead Count Orlando gives him Mount Alverna God miraculously protects him He preaches in Piedmont and passes into Spain Works a miraculous cure there The king, Alphonso IX, permits him to establish his Order there He receives houses there A violent sickness prevents him going to Morocco His actions whilst he is delayed in Spain He returns to Italy His route thither He arrives at S. Mary of the Angels, and disapproves a building there He goes to Mount Alverna Is beaten by devils Mortifies his sense, and taste Makes water spring from a rock Visits the mountain Converts there a celebrated brigand Leaves for Rome Discovers some relics by revelation Makes predictions, and performs miracles and conversions Arrives at Rome whilst the Council of Lateran is sitting The Pope declares to the Council that he has approved the Rule He appoints a general chapter at S. Mary of the Angels, whither he returns He holds the chapter and sends his friars to various countries He thinks of going to Paris Reunites an illustrious family that had been divided Rejoices in his poverty and asks of God a greater love of holy poverty SS. Peter and Paul appear to him at Rome His alliance with S. Dominic He goes to Florence, where Cardinal Hugolin dissuades him from going to Paris He returns to the Valley of Spoleto, and sends three of his disciples to France A celestial vision induces him to ask of the Pope a cardinal protector for his Order What he says on this subject He preaches before the Pope What happened to him in the pulpit The Pope gives him Cardinal Hugolin, as protector of the Order He preaches in the Valley of Rieti Delivers the country from two plagues, and makes some conversions there The houses he builds there He appoints a general chapter at S. Mary of the Angels, for the year 1219 What he did during the year 1218 Efficacy of his prayers He wishes to pull down a new house which he found at S. Mary of the Angels
Now Frank began to play the part of a clown or buffoon, acting in a very silly and stupid manner, while the others looked on laughing and pointing their fingers at him in derision. "Frank, can't you behave yourself?" exclaimed Maud. "It mortifies me to see you making yourself the laughing-stock of the whole company."
"No slop-basin was ever deeper. So leave it for the present, and go to work. Here are cards admitting you, as my commissioner, to all the principal works. Begin with Stop a moment, while I put myself in your place. Let me see, 'Cheetham's grinders think they have turned me out of Hillsborough. That mortifies a young man of merit like me. Confound 'em!
Taking aside an old woman, who was her constant and confidential attendant at the theatre, she said, in an earnest whisper, "Oh, Gionetta, he is here again! I have seen him again! And again, he alone of the whole theatre withholds from me his applause. He scarcely seems to notice me; his indifference mortifies me to the soul, I could weep for rage and sorrow."
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