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She added, in a voice from which she could not keep the self-pity: "I should naturally have been president this year." Her crushed mildness touched Carlisle abruptly. For the first time in all this trouble, perhaps for the first time in her life, she had a considerate and sympathetic thought for her mother.
It is easier when one is going under water for the third time and sees a rope, to stretch just one inch more and grasp the rope, reach up to forty more years of one's life, all concentrated for one on the tip of a rope, than it is to spread out saving one's life over a whole year, 365 breakfasts, 365 luncheons, 365 dinners, 33,365 moments of anger, of reckless worry, of remorse, of self-pity, 40,000 of despair and round up with a swing at the end of one's year at the tiptop of one's being, as if it had only taken five minutes.
He sank down in his chair, resting his chin in his hand mere sensation, without thought, holding him. Then something like a bereaved affection and self-pity swept over him. "She needn't have gone away," he said. "I'd have got something." He sat a long while without rocking, and added quite clearly, out loud: "I tried, didn't I?" At midnight he was still rocking, staring at the floor.
Its foundation was fear; its subordinate emotions were shame, self-pity and consciousness of her real feeling toward the man of the house. The true spirit of womanhood revolted with its usual waywardness.
He was accustomed to signs of hopelessness when his case was discussed, and was unmoved by them. "Have you family ties?" the doctor asked. He liked the grit this man's manner indicated. "None that need to be counted," was the brief reply. The doctor noticed that his patient wasted no extra words in self-pity. "That's good! It lessens a man's worries. And where are you staying, Mr. Noland?"
Looking back now as from another world on that unkempt fractious Marcie of Cliff House, the Marcella of the present saw with a mixture of amusement and self-pity that one great aggravation of that child's daily miseries had been a certain injured, irritable sense of social difference between herself and her companions.
She wanted the spice and thrill of Joan in her life; Joan was part of it all the rightful part. With this Nancy took to self-pity in order to establish her claim. "Why should I be taken for granted and be obliged to give up all the fun and brightness while Joan does as she pleases?"
Or something funny 'The Sins of Society, or something?" Rhoda whispered "Anything," nearly on the edge of tears. A vividness had flashed again into her grey life, and she was trying to quench it. She had heroically, though as an afterthought, flung an extinguishing douche of water at it; but now that she had done so she was melting into unheroic self-pity.
He had not used the lap rug all that day, he couldn't use a rug and drive, he had left it folded and hanging on the rack in the tonneau it was now neatly folded and reposing on the front seat! "Yes," said Jimmie Dale, a sort of self-pity in his tones, "I might have known." He lifted the rug. Beneath it on the leather seat lay a white envelope. Her letter!
He was comforting her compassionately; but like one who does not wish to spend resources on exploratory surgery to find out whether or not the lymphatic cancer had spread in an aging pet, the man turned away from the woman. Gabriele could see him pursuing his own private minutes of self-pity and rage deep in lost, silent eyes.
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