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Dexter and her husband," remarked Mrs. Arden. "She left him several days ago, and is now with her aunt, Mrs. Loring." "A separation! On what ground?" Hendrickson's breathing oppressed him. "Something wrong with Mrs. Dexter, I am told. She had too many admirers so the story goes; and, worse still for admiration she couldn't help one lover." It was Mrs. Arden who said this.
He was oppressed during the whole of his ride by this suggestion that the questionable characters of the wharfside were pursuing Dudley; it gave color to Carrie's statement that it was Dudley who killed the man whom Max believed to have been Edward Jacobs; and it looked as if the object of the woman's visit was to levy blackmail.
He was like one freed from a bondage that had oppressed him for a long time, and the fact that he might be compelled to fight Jeanne's own people did not destroy his hopefulness, the new joy and excitement that he had found in life.
The last words were spoken in a trembling voice which made it clear that he also was oppressed by the secret, the weight of which he desired to lighten for Vera. "I had to tell you to-day when you made your declaration to me. I felt it was impossible to leave you in ignorance."
The temptation to begin the talk myself came near mastering me, so oppressed with curiosity was I; and finally, to resist it the better, I walked away and stood on the brow of the knoll, whence one could look up and down the Valley. It was the only world I knew this expanse of flats, broken by wedges of forest stretching down from the hills on the horizon to the very water's edge.
"And you are going back to your friends?" Gustave asked, in a very mournful tone. "I am going back to my friends? Yes!" Her lips quivered a little, and the unbidden tears came to her eyes. Ah, what was the sorrow that oppressed this beauteous lonely creature? What agony of grief or self-reproach was this pain which consumed her?
This fact was made apparent to Christie one evening when she went down to the weekly gathering in one of the melancholy moods which sometimes oppressed her. She felt dissatisfied with herself because her interest in all things began to flag, and a restless longing for some new excitement to break up the monotonous pain of her inner life possessed her.
It would be a message to me." His voice died away; his eyes seemed to pierce the violet mists of the valley with prophetic power. Andrew Johnstone was silent, oppressed by a feeling he did not understand. Duncan continued, as though speaking to himself: "Yes, oh yes, indeed. There will be a sacrifice, and I will be fearing it! What will the Lord require?
The oppressed consciences, the injured liberties of England, were the banner that I followed."
If it should be argued in order to prolong for a few years an illegitimate privilege that it is not enough to demonstrate equality, that it is necessary also to organize it, and above all to establish it peacefully, I might reply: The welfare of the oppressed is of more importance than official composure.
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