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"There's no one else for me to think of," she explained, in self-excuse. "If there were, I shouldn't bother you." "That's not so kind," he said, keeping to the tone of conventional gallantry. "I don't mean that I haven't plenty of friends. I know lots of people naturally; but I don't know them in a way to appeal to them like this." "Then so much the better for me."
She would think he had been a beast to her. So he had so he had! There surged up in his mind inarticulate phrases of remorse, of self-excuse, as though he were talking to her. Some day he would come back and claim her. But when? His buoyant self-dependence was all gone. It had nothing to do with his present departure.
Victor Dorn's system was as perfect as it was simple, and he held himself to it as rigidly as the father superior of a Trappist monastery holds his monks to their routine. Also, Victor had learned to know and to be on guard against those two arch-enemies of the man who wishes to "get somewhere" self-excuse and optimism. He had got a good strong leash upon his vanity and a muzzle, too.
Dumont's father and mother charged against Ann Arbor that which they might have charged against their own alternations of tyranny and license, had they not been humanly lenient in self-excuse. "No more college!" said his father. "The place for you, young man, is my office, where I can keep an eye or two on you."
But I do know that I have no control over him, over his cynical smile, or his lip curling in good-natured contempt of me, or his shrug at self-excuse, or his moods when he stares down at the fretting stream with a look of weariness so profound that it is tragic.
I've hesitated about coming at all, partly because I've an instinct it's useless, partly because what I have to say isn't easy." Crossley's expression hardened. The old story! excuses, excuses, self-excuse somebody else to blame. "If it hadn't been for Mr. Ransdell the trouble he took with me, the coaching he gave me I'd have been a ridiculous failure at the very first rehearsal. But it is to Mr.
Surely Abbie, on her knees struggling with her bleeding heart, and yet feeling all around and underneath her the everlasting arms, knew nothing of desolation such as this. Fiercer and fiercer waged the warfare, until at last every root of pride, or self-complacence, or self-excuse, was utterly cast out. Yet did not Satan despair.
I have read nothing more horrible than the cold-blooded cruelty of Ludendorff's Memoirs, in which, without any attempt at self-excuse, he reveals himself as using the lives of millions of men upon a gambling chance of victory with the hazards weighted against him, as he admits.
The verger proved quite unable to supply the required information, and said in self-excuse, "Well, you see, my lord, his late lordship wasn't at all a church-going gentleman;" which, being interpreted, meant that, on account of age and infirmities, Bishop Turton had long confined his ministrations to his private chapel. "Well, Whipcord, have you seen your new Master of the Horse yet?"
She was literally hanging her head with shame. "I wasn't very well that day," she murmured. "Don't deceive yourself," said he. "Don't indulge in the fatal folly of self-excuse." "Go on," she said humbly. "I want to hear it all." "Is your throat sore to-day?" pursued he. She colored. "It's better," she murmured. "A singer with sore throat!" mocked he.
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