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Updated: June 15, 2025
I rode on slowly, noticing the neglected fences on either hand, and thought that my cousin Varick might have found an hour to mend them, for his pride's sake.
"I'd feel as ef the people of God was a gang of insultin' hypocrites, an' ez ef I didn't ever want to see 'em again. Ef that kind o' pride's sinful, the devil's a saint.
He wandered on, wounded and indignant, and was resolved to put himself in the way of like treatment no more. But hunger is pride's master; so, as the evening drew near, he made an attempt at another farmhouse; but here he fared worse than before; for he was called hard names and was promised arrest as a vagrant except he moved on promptly.
I was busied on it or it may be I shut my eyes a little when they brought word of thee. It is good to have thee here: I will show thee my art not for pride's sake, but because thou must learn. The Sahibs have not all this world's wisdom. He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of Indian ink.
Very soon they would join the horsemen, who were waiting for them, and for her pride's sake she must concentrate all her energy to avoid betraying her weakness. Ahmed Ben Hassan did not go back through the defile, he turned into a little path that Diana had overlooked and which skirted the hills. In about half-an-hour the troop met them, riding slowly from the opposite direction.
She looked as if she had learned what things are lovely and of good repute. When the town-clock struck noon, she brought forth their little luncheon, and pressed it upon the others, with a nice hospitality. Elvin shook his head, but Molly ate a trifle, for pride's sake. "You go an' git him a mite o' water," whispered Dilly, when they had finished. "I would, but I dunno the ways o' this place.
And I am forced to lean upon you, Mr. Bailiff, in that behalf." "Non tali auxilio," began the quotation-loving bailiff. But Prynne gravely pursued his pleading. "You may recollect what I said to the Commons' House three full years ago. Indeed it was the very night before Pride's Purge.
Her lips closed; not even for pride's sake, and retort's sake, will she desecrate the past, belittle her own first love. She held out her hand. It was very dark. He could see nothing among her furs but the gleaming whiteness of her face. The whole personality seemed centred in the voice the half-mocking, vibrating voice. He took her hand and dropped it instantly.
But the king drove on and held his own; so it was the parson who had to turn his horse aside that time, and when the king came up beside him, he said, "To-morrow you shall come to me at the palace, and if you can't answer three questions which I shall ask you, you shall lose your office for your pride's sake." This was something quite different from what the parson was wont to hear.
"There are a lot of things I'd like to ask you some day; one is about a park for me at Pride's Fall oh, the tiniest sort of a park, only it should be quite formal in all its miniature details. Will you let Shiela bring you for a little conference? Soon?"
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