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The painter himself made an effort to join their mirth; but he had been so harrowed by fear, and smarted so much with the pain of the discipline he had received from Pickle, that he could not, with all his endeavours, vanquish the ruefulness of his countenance.
The inflammation, however, clearly required medical advice. In the midst of his ruefulness the doctor, a capable-looking man of five and thirty, entered the room. He examined the heel and ankle with professional scrutiny. Then he raised his head. "Have you been treating it in any way?" "Yes," said Sypher, "with the Cure." "What Cure?" "Why, Sypher's Cure."
But I knew you were living here," her old friend went on to Isabel, "and I assure you I've often thought of you. It must be a charming place to live in," he added with a look, round him, at her established home, in which she might have caught the dim ghost of his old ruefulness. "We should have been glad to see you at any time," Osmond observed with propriety. "Thank you very much.
What does one expect? "Don't look so solemn," she said with mock ruefulness. "You make me feel as though you had come to baptize me, as though you had to wash away my sins. Come here!" and she laid her hand invitingly on the chair that Kitty had vacated at her side. He stood bolt upright in the middle of the room, looking down at her in silence. Then he walked slowly over and took the seat.
Yet he played with us, losing at first, but eventually winning until I had to withdraw. Tom, having more money to lose, held out longer. "Why now," said the captain once, regarding his winnings with a face of perfect ruefulness, "'tis proven that what we seek eludes us, and what we don't value comes to us!
"Perhaps I wasn't worth stealing," Clementina suggested, with a ruefulness in her smile that went to Miss Milray's heart. She put her arms round her and kissed her. "I wasn't very kind to you, the other day, Clementina, was I?" "I don't know," Clementina faltered, with half-averted face. "Yes, you do!
"Falling, therefore, such an one to death, all the wits of Florence, as is seemly in so public a calamity, lamented severally and mutually, some in rhyme, some in prose, the ruefulness of it; and bound themselves to exalt her excellence each after the contriving of his mind: in which company I, too, must needs be; I, too, mingle rhymes with tears.
She shook her head with mock ruefulness. "Do you know what they do to poor men in the States, who, like you, do not work for their living?" "I am very ignorant," she pleaded. "What do they do to the poor men who are like me?" "They send them to jail. The crime of not earning a living, in their case, is called vagrancy. If I were Mr.
"Laetitia Dale appreciates it." A smile of enforced ruefulness, like a leaf curling in heat, wrinkled his mouth. Why did she not speak of her conversation with Clara? "Have they caught Crossjay?" he said. "Apparently they are giving chase to him." The likelihood was, that Clara had been overcome by timidity. "Must you leave us?" "I think it prudent to take Professor Crooklyn away."
Gottlieb beheld such a sunny twinkle across the Goshawk's face at this hospitable array, that he gave the word of onset without waiting for Berthold, and his guest immediately fell to, and did not relax in his exertions for a full half-hour by the Cathedral clock, eschewing the beer with a wry look made up of scorn and ruefulness, and drinking a well-brimmed health in Rhine wine all round.
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