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She insisted on coming into the sick-room two or three times every day, to look at Miss Halcombe with her own eyes, promising not to go too close to the bed, if the doctor would consent to her wishes so far. Mr. Dawson very unwillingly made the concession required of him I think he saw that it was hopeless to dispute with her. She came in every day, and she self-denyingly kept her promise.
I am told, too, that this mission has been working, nobly and self-denyingly, among these unhappy people for some years past.
Olenin shut himself up in his hut and began writing in his diary as follows: 'Many things have I pondered over lately and much have I changed, wrote he, 'and I have come back to the copybook maxim: The one way to be happy is to love, to love self-denyingly, to love everybody and everything; to spread a web of love on all sides and to take all who come into it.
"We must each of us wait His good time patiently, hopefully, self-denyingly wait." "I know! I know!" replied Mrs. Dexter. "But I cannot look along the way that lies before me without a shudder. The path is too difficult." "You will surely receive strength." "I would rather die!" A slight convulsion ran through her frame. "Don't look into the future, dear young friend!
"Too tall," said Stephen, smiling down upon her, "and a little too fiery. She is not my type of woman, you know." Gentlemen, you are aware, are apt to impart these imprudent confidences to ladies concerning their unfavorable opinion of sister fair ones. That is why so many women have the advantage of knowing that they are secretly repulsive to men who have self-denyingly made ardent love to them.
And his pulse leapt at the scarcely admitted thought that perhaps now in a few weeks he might be walking the dale paths with Mary. But there were stern things to be done first. At Maudeley he found Flaxman awaiting him, and the two passed into the library, where Rose, though bubbling over with question and conjecture, self-denyingly refrained from joining them.
Young, inexperienced, blind to the future, I took up the burdens you laid at my feet, and believed myself strong enough to carry them all the days of my life. It was a fatal error. How painfully I have struggled on how prayerfully, how patiently, how self-denyingly, you can never know. Yet, without avail. I have fallen by the way, and there is not strength enough in me to lift the burdens again.
The young gentlemen met every Saturday night in term time and read essays. They discussed all manner of topics. Sometimes they descended to mere commonplaces Is a little knowledge a dangerous thing? Is it possible ridentem dicere verum? Fitzjames self-denyingly approves of the position assigned to mathematics at Cambridge. His philosophical theories are not very clear.
If knowledge could not give a touch of humane regard for the feelings of a poor girl toiling dutifully and self-denyingly to support her family, of what account was it? Two minutes before he was about to give his life to Janet Dunton. Now there was a gulf wider than the world between them. He slipped out of the best room by the outside door and came in through the kitchen.
Yes, that old sculptor was the first who joined them in the sight of all Paris. But he was really a genius. . . All this according to Mr. Blunt, who gave us all those details with a sort of languid zest covering a secret irritation. “Apart from that, you know,” went on Mr. Absolutely all, with Allègre self-denyingly on her right hand, with that impenetrable air of guardianship. Don’t touch!
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