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He answered, evenly. "Yes. I ask that. Even I." Quickly, with the agility of the brute, she thrust toward him the little, puling thing that lay upon her lap. "Look, then," she said, in deep, grating tones. He leaned forward, crossing his hands behind him, and looked. The crop, held in his right hand, tapped lightly against his booted left leg. The woman waited. At length he stood erect.
I don't want to make it a matter of duty. I only tell you this, that you may set your mind at rest as far as I am concerned. If you do lose your place, I will consider it as my own doing, and not be disappointed. I had rather see you a healthy, vigorous, useful man, than a poor puling nervous wretch of a scholar, if you were to get all the prizes in the university."
Once, when two little girls evidently the wharfinger's daughters went by, my hand reached out to the door to open it so that I might call to them and present them with the puling little wretch. A farewell surprise package from Galbraith, he had arrived at the hotel the night before, by express from New York. It was Galbraith's way.
And if a pang comes to you at all, it will be a pang of healthful hunger. All the puling sorrows, all the carking repentance, all this talk of duty that is no duty, in the great peace, in the pure daylight of these woods, fall away from you like a garment.
"What does it matter what I am if I can't be anything to you?" Then his bitterness was redoubled, and an almost savage light shone in his usually gentle eyes. "Oh, God, I know I can never be anything to you but a sort of puling weakling, who must be nursed, and petted, and cared for.
"They contain nothing save some puling sentimentality about lasses with lint-white locks, or some absurd laudations of the Barley Bree." "Hear till him, hear till him!" said the doctor, reddening with impatience. "Show me anything," said Maurice, "like the 'Cruiskeen Lawn' or the 'Jug of Punch; but who can blame them, after all?
In no life are the grit and efficiency of the well-bred in such marked contrast with the puling whine and shiftlessness of the settler from the cesspool of the city slums.
As he held the watch at the length of its chain and stared, half-comprehending, his hand the hand of the finest swordsman in the Indian Army shook. Lenore gone: a puling, yelping whelp in her place.... A tall, severe-looking elderly woman entered the verandah by a distant door and approached the savage, miserable soldier. Nurse Beaton.
We know how exquisitely Renoir moulds his female heads, building up, cell by cell, the entire mask. The simple gestures of daily life have been recorded by Renoir for the past forty years with a fidelity and a vitality that shames the anæmic imaginings and puling pessimisms of his younger contemporaries. What versatility, what undaunted desire to conquer new problems!
"It is the fashion to underrate Horace Walpole, firstly, because he was a nobleman, and, secondly, because he was a gentleman; but, to say nothing of the composition of his incomparable letters and of 'The Castle of Otranto, he is the 'Ultimus Romanorum, the author of 'The Mysterious Mother, a tragedy of the highest order, and not a puling love-play.
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