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Updated: May 15, 2025
MORTIMER. It is well known she gave you preference Before all others. LEICESTER. So, indeed, it seemed. Now, after ten lost years of tedious courtship And hateful self-constraint oh, sir, my heart Must ease itself of this long agony. They call me happy! Did they only know What the chains are, for which they envy me!
Then at the time of our greatest troubles, came that which Elsje had expected and longed for as the highest blessing maternity. I too had desired the child and had longed for it with fervent tenderness, picturing to myself how I could now bestow all the interest and fatherly devotion without self-constraint, from natural instinct, from overpowering love.
It is praiseworthy and amiable to wean one's self from tasteless or provoking outbursts of feeling, or to give to them a more ingratiating form; but I call it self-constraint which makes one sick at heart when one stifles his own feelings in himself. In social intercourse one may practise it, but not we two between ourselves.
"I hope the self-constraint imposed by your courtesy is not too severe for comfort. I also understand the little fiction of excepting present company. But I cannot help remembering that I am a wee bit of the world and very worldly; that is, I am very fond of the world and all its pretty follies. I like nice people much better than savage mountains and heartless waves."
And even when she had entered on her dismal task of self-constraint in the society of three girls whom she was bound incessantly to edify, the same process of inspection was to go on: there was always to be Mrs. Mompert's supervision; always something or other would be expected of her to which she had not the slightest inclination; and perhaps the bishop would examine her on serious topics.
As cold and as unmoved as a statue, Pascal seemed quite unconscious of the effect of the message he had brought quite unconscious of Valorsay's sufferings and self-constraint. "You think I am jesting, monsieur," he said, quietly, "but I assure you that the baron is very short of money just now." "Nonsense! a man worth seven or eight millions of francs." "I should say ten millions, at least."
A stern self-constraint excludes everything exclamatory, all glimpses and disclosures of what merely affects the writer, all advantages from an appeal, disguised and indirect perhaps, to the opinion of his own side.
So far, the course of love ran smooth; and only three months intervened until the wedding-day. The closer relation into which the minds of the lovers came after their betrothal and the removal of a degree of deference and self-constraint, gave opportunity for the real character of each to show itself.
Pitiful indeed, therefore, is the pitiless inflexibility of purpose with which she wings from her child's heart all the dangerous endearments of childhood, its merry laughter, its sparkling tears, its trustfulness, its artlessness, its engaging waywardness; and in their place instils silence, submission, self-constraint, suspicion, cunning, carefulness, and an ever-vigilant fear.
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