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Maud was quite incapable of understanding this self-pity, and seating herself at the little table by the window, she indulged her own self-reproachful thoughts on her conduct of the morning. She had no idea then that his father had treated him so harshly, or she would have been more tender, and her heart was sad as she thought of his words, that he must be true to his conscience.
Will had purposed getting back to the shop about seven o'clock. He was, indeed, back in London at that hour, but his state of mind tempted him to shirk squalid duty; instead of turning toward Fulham Road, he took his way into the Strand, and there loitered in the evening sunshine, self-reproachful, yet enjoying the unwonted liberty.
But glowing reports were received of Tara's happiness in her new home, with its extensive grounds and generous management; and, though Tara was never forgotten one does not forget such a mother of heroes, when one has bred her and nursed her through mortal illness her Master had ceased to grieve about her or to feel self-reproachful about having parted with her.
A passionate flood of self-reproachful love was on his lips. He choked it back. It was desecration that her name should be mentioned in that room. But he dropped the hand he held. The fierceness died out of his eyes. His companion stood beside him panting, breathless, afraid. 'Thank God, he said slowly, 'thank God for yourself and me that I love my wife!
'And here have I, said Sloppy, in something of a self-reproachful tone, 'been a learning and a learning, and here has Mr Boffin been a paying and a paying, ever so long! 'I have heard what your trade is, observed Miss Wren; 'it's cabinet-making. Mr Sloppy nodded. 'Now that the Mounds is done with, it is. I'll tell you what, Miss. I should like to make you something. 'Much obliged. But what?
Agitated, restless, self-reproachful, bewildered, and uncertain, he could not bear thoughts that demanded answers to a thousand questions; he flung from his cheerless room, and hastened, with a feverish pulse and burning temples, to Lady Charlotte Deerham's. "Good Heavens! how ill you look, Mr. Godolphin!" cried the hostess, involuntarily. "Ill! ha! ha!
There were no ameliorating phrases to soften it to her ears; there was no tact, there was no blarney, there was no suave suggestion now, no cheap gaiety, no cynicism of the social vampire only the direct statement of a self-reproachful, dying man. "I didn't fully know what I was doing," he said to her. "If I had understood then as I do now, I would never have come near you.
"Flora! my own, my dearest my poor child! you should not turn from me. Do I not carry with me the like self-reproachful conviction?" Flora let him turn her face towards him and kiss her forehead.
Mrs Mason went the accustomed visit to her father's, making some little show of apology to Mrs Wood for leaving her and her daughter; the apprentices dispersed to the various friends with whom they were in the habit of spending the day; and Ruth went to St Nicholas', with a sorrowful heart, depressed on account of Jenny, and self-reproachful at having rashly undertaken what she had been unable to perform.
I had been gazing at it some time in silent and self-reproachful admiration, when I became aware that the business of this strange court was proceeding, and that the other toys were pronouncing sentence against me. "'Tie a string round her neck and take her out bathing in the brooks, I heard an elderly voice say in severe tones. It was the Dowager Doll.
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