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'A thousand a year on the marriage, and the same amount to the first child. I daresay the end would be that they would get all. Sir Franks nodded, and remained with one eye-brow pitiably elevated above the level of the other. 'Anything but a tailor! he exclaimed presently, half to himself. 'There is a prejudice against that craft, her ladyship acquiesced.
For little thought Gratian, as he sat in that amphitheatre, that the day was coming when he, the hunter of game and of heretics would be hunted in his turn; when, deserted by his army, betrayed by Merobaudes whose elder kinsfolk were not likely to have kept him ignorant of "the Frankish sports " he should flee pitiably towards Italy, and die by a German hand; some say near Lyons, some say near Belgrade, calling on Ambrose with his latest breath.
Often, when he went again into the kitchen, Mrs. Leivers would look at him reproachfully, saying: "Paul, don't be so hard on Miriam. She may not be quick, but I'm sure she tries." "I can't help it," he said rather pitiably. "I go off like it." "You don't mind me, Miriam, do you?" he asked of the girl later. "No," she reassured him in her beautiful deep tones "no, I don't mind."
The French officers pronounced him utterly ignorant of the art of war. They had observed that at the Boyne he had seemed to be stupified, unable to give directions himself, unable even to make up his mind about the suggestions which were offered by others, The disasters which had since followed one another in rapid succession were not likely to restore the tone of a mind so pitiably unnerved.
He was not prepared to say, since his knowledge of the sex had never extended beyond the sill of his own doorway. But whether general or particular, the truth remained that the mental horizon of his sisters, bounded as it was by the four walls of the kitchen and such portion of the outside world as could be seen from its windows, was pitiably narrow.
That was no conventional, expected shock that she had received. It was a genuine unforeseen shock, the most violent that she had ever had. In her mind she had not pictured Gerald as a very old man. She knew that he was old; she had said to herself that he must be very old, well over seventy. But she had not pictured him. This face on the bed was painfully, pitiably old.
"Little girl! oh, little girl!" he said softly, the old familiar phrase finding its own way to his lips and she trembled slightly; "was there no other way but that? Had marriage made the world such a living hell for you that there was no other way but that?" "Phil, I helped to make it a hell." "Yes because I was pitiably inadequate to design anything better for us. I didn't know how.
And yet, looking back upon that last, hurried walk of mine through the forest, I see how strange it was that I could not quit remembering how in my dream I had gone motoring up Mount Pilatus with the man I had seen so pitiably demolished on the Versailles road, two years before Larrabee Harman.
To her the father turned now for certain things to be done, treating her in his rough fashion as a housekeeper, and the girl felt flattered and docile accordingly. They wore pitiably clad; like many farm-children, indeed, they could hardly be said to be clad at all.
From the first we rise with a confused and miserable sense of weakness and of power of lofty aspirations and degrading appetencies of pride swelling into blasphemy, and humiliation pitiably grovelling in the dust of purity of spirit soaring on the wings of imagination, and grossness of instinct brutally wallowing in "Epicurus' stye," of lofty contempt for the opinion of mankind, yet the most slavish subjection to their most fatal prejudices of a sublime piety towards God, and a wild violation of his holiest laws.
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