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March and I have blamed ourselves a good deal, and we couldn't let it go on. But I'm afraid I haven't been as delicate with you " "Oh! delicate!" He lifted his head and flashed a face of generous self-reproach upon me. "It's I that haven't been delicate with YOU. I've been monstrously indelicate.
She was never in two places at once; but hitherto she had never been in one place long. By making this clear to his mind some time before to-day, he had escaped a good deal of ugly self-reproach. It was simply that she who always attracted him, and led him whither she would as by a silken thread, had not remained the occupant of the same fleshly tabernacle in her career so far.
Dolly, the the little house, and and the dreams I have had about it!" Aimée was almost in despair. This was not one of his ordinary moods; this was the culminating point, the culmination of all his old sufferings and pangs. He had been working slowly toward this through all the old unhappiness and self-reproach.
He paused for a moment, then went on: "You told me last night that you were helpless. I want you to recognize that you have been splendidly victorious all through: because you are splendid yourself. It's a victory that's costing us all the happiness out of life, perhaps, but it oughtn't to leave you any room for self-reproach.
"It's not me that likes to interfere with a gent's pleasure party, but business is business," said he, as he climbed aboard. My client's hospitality was oriental. "Make yourself at home, old man," he said, a box of his largest and blackest cigars in his hand. And these he advanced towards McCann before the knot was tied in the painter. Then a wave of self-reproach swept over me.
"That little girl!" He turned his back upon his friend and covered his face with his hands, and Raphael saw his shoulders quivering. Then his own vision grew dim. Conjecture, resentment, wonder, self-reproach, were lost in a new and absorbing sense of the pathos of the poor girl's position. Presently the minister turned round, showing a face that made no pretence of calm.
It was not until he saw the heightening color, and heard the quick breathing, of his eager listener, that he felt a pang of self-reproach. "God help her and forgive me!" he muttered between his clinched teeth, "but how can I tell her ALL now!" That night, when Mrs.
The feeling of tranquillity that spread through me, so different from the feverish self-reproach that had gripped me ever since I had killed Hop Lee was so marked, so wonderful in its effect on me that I could not feel it was the result of a dream. No, the spirit of the old man had been there, absolving me of my broken word, absolving me of his murder.
Jervis laid her waxen cheek against her daughter's tangle of brown hair with a faint smile, while her breathing, which had grown quick and panting, gradually subsided. Emily looked up at Marcella with a terrified self-reproach. They all knew that any sudden excitement might kill out the struggling flame of life. "You ought to rest a little, Mrs. Jervis," said Marcella, with gentle authority.
"It teaches one not to judge," she thought, with a stab of self-reproach, "it teaches one not to judge others until one really knows."
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