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Jasper Penny instinctively excluded her from a trivial conversation. She was, he decided, paler than usual, the shadows under her eyes were indigo. He was filled with self-condemnation. Mrs. Penny, gazing at her with a beady discernment, asked if her rest had been interrupted. "I am always an indifferent sleeper," Susan Brundon replied evasively.
In this universal confusion, Pompey felt all that repentance and self-condemnation, which must necessarily arise from the remembrance of having advanced his rival to his present pitch of power: wherever he appeared, many of his former friends were ready to tax him with his supineness, and sarcastically to reproach his ill-grounded presumption. 8.
"You don't live up to your doctrines at all." "Little wonder, then," he exclaimed, in bitter self-condemnation, "that all turn from my teaching." She looked at him with a curious smile, as she thought, "What a child he is! He is but wax in my hands.
He had asked her to pity his loneliness and she had had only pity for herself. Her lips quivered as she whispered his name in an agony of self-condemnation.
George decided, with self-condemnation, that he had been deliberately creating in his own mind an illusion about her; on no other hypothesis could either his impatience to meet her to-night, or his disappointment at not meeting her on the night of the Café Royal dinner, be explained. She was nothing, after all. And he did not deeply care for Miss Irene Wheeler, whom he could watch at will.
But before she could answer he knew, and a wave of mingled remorse, shame, and self-condemnation swept over his soul. "What is it? Why, shamrock, of course!" "Shamrock!" was all he could falter lamely in reply. "Yes, shamrock. Queen Alexandra set the fashion, you know. Every one who wants to do the correct thing wears shamrock today.
This he slowly opened with the key he took from his pocket; then, pausing with the knob in his hand, he said: "In the years which are past, but two persons beside myself have crossed this threshold, and these only under my eye. Its secret was for my own breast. Judge what my remorse has been; judge the power of my own secret self-condemnation, by what you see here."
The old Adam is only too glad to get a word in, if even in behalf of his supplanting successor." Then he rose, and, taking my mother by the arm, walked away with her. I confess I honored him for his self-condemnation the most. I must add that the offending nurse had been ten years in the family, and ought to have known better. But to return to Theodora.
During the past month I have actually prayed that he might be dead.... I shall be punished for it." I ventured no rejoinder to these words of self-condemnation. Joyce, I reflected, mundanely, had clearly swept her off her feet in the ardour of their first meeting and instant love. "It must be a great relief to you," I murmured at length, "to have it all definitely settled at last."
The press of duty is as great as ever it was; it is so difficult to find time for more prayer; real enjoyment in prayer, which would enable us to persevere, is what we do not feel; we do not possess the power to supplicate and to plead, as we should; our prayers, instead of being a joy and a strength, are a source of continual self-condemnation and doubt.
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