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In desperation, he broke into some wholly foreign subject, and for this morning, all hope of the decisive step had passed. The day brought no other opportunity. Towards midnight, Dymchurch sat at the open window of his chamber, glad to be alone, anxious, self-reproachful. To-morrow he must discharge what had become an obvious duty, however difficult it might be.
With an irresistible sense that something was wrong, with a flashing self-reproachful fear that fatal mischief had come of my leaving the man there, and causing no one to be sent to overlook or correct what he did, I descended the notched path with all the speed I could make. "What is the matter?" I asked the men. "Signal-man killed this morning, sir." "Not the man belonging to that box?"
Carmen did not reply. The lawyer lingered. "How did you find the great New-England Senator?" he asked with a slight professional levity. Carmen was tired, Carmen was worried, Carmen was a little self-reproachful, and she kindled easily. Consequently she said icily: "I found him A GENTLEMAN!" The closing of the Congress was not unlike the closing of the several preceding Congresses.
Bangs, just to take a look at you, dear, and see that we start right. Then we'll send Amy off to Aunt March's for a spell, to keep her out of harm's way, and one of you girls can stay at home and amuse Beth for a day or two." "I shall stay, of course, I'm oldest," began Meg, looking anxious and self-reproachful. "I shall, because it's my fault she is sick.
Cocksmoor existed without Ethel on that holiday; and indeed she was self-reproachful, though pleased, at finding her presence so great a treat to her father. Leonard might do the honours of the lime-tree nook, but she spent but little time there, for Dr.
"He went out just before eight, to catch some of the men who work on the line and can't be back to vote in the evening," said May. "Lord!" sighed Jimmy in a self-reproachful tone; it was past nine now, and he was only just out of bed. "What are you going to do?" "Drive and bow and smile and shake hands," said May. "And you're going to and fro in a wagonette of Mr.
But you haven't told me fully why you wanted me to say I loved you." He stood up nervously and moved a few paces away, but the patient, self-reproachful gaze in Claire's eyes brought him back again. "Why talk of that at all, dearest?" he whispered. "We have each other. Isn't that enough?" "Perhaps not. You asked me to say it, you know." "Yes, but I don't care. I won't plague you.
She kissed away the tear, and knelt at the bedside in prayer, a thing she had not done for years. A flood of tender and self-reproachful feelings came over her; the spring was touched, and she wept aloud. Christine started up, and murmured a few broken sentences, before she was fully conscious of the meaning of the scene.
"Frank, what have you heard of Constance?" Had I been arming myself to meet that question disciplining my voice and countenance for days, only to fail so miserably at last? I felt unspeakably angry and self-reproachful when I saw that my face had told him all. "When did she die?" He went on in the same measured tone, without taking his eyes off me.
Thus, almost in darkness, with a mind ill at ease, brooding on the events of the day, which had perhaps perilled his life, although life had now become of little value, we leave him to his melancholy and self-reproachful thoughts, and hasten to the chamber of Constance Cecil.
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