United States or Nauru ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
From what I have seen, I should imagine they do not lead a very happy existence," continued the Circus Boy with a pleasant smile. "If I keep you on this car I'll use you as I please, and the quicker you understand that the better. Now, what do you propose to do?" "I propose," said Phil, still preserving an even tone, "to do my duty and at the same time keep my self-respect.
At the same time, feeling toward Geoffrey as she felt now conscious as she was of not really desiring the reparation on which she was about to insist it was essential to the preservation of her own self-respect that she should have some purpose in view which could justify her to her own conscience in assuming the character of Mrs. Glenarm's rival.
Even Lord Clarendon admitted that the Turks had displayed no lack of patience under the far greater insult of invasion. The 'indignity' of notice to quit was, in fact, inevitable if the Sultan was to preserve a vestige of self-respect.
He had always had physical courage and muscular strength, and it was something to feel he could hold his own with his comrades at a strenuous task. Moreover, his saving Festing from the river had restored his self-respect. But he had stronger allies, and his face got hot as he thought of the two women who had fought for him when he had scarcely tried to help himself.
She had come to accept pityingly the possibility that the canker of old influences had eaten more deeply than appeared on the surface. She had set herself stanchly beside him as his friend, who would help him win back his self-respect. She felt sure that he must suffer terribly with that keen, analytical mind of his, when he stopped to think at all.
With the reins between her fingers, and the responsibility on her of driving through the storm and darkness, some of her courage and self-respect returned, but not until she had flung that wretched cake far from her into the darkness. "I shall hate orange cakes all the rest of my life," she thought. "It was kind of Lady Kitson to take you in out of the storm," remarked her father absently.
The school and the workshop are both primarily for discipline and the formation of new habits. Only incidentally are the school and the workshop intended to fit a man for an occupation outside of the prison. The whole discipline is to put a man in possession of his faculties, to give him self-respect, to get him in the way of leading a normal and natural life.
He had been for weeks coming to the point where the whole monastic life seemed to him fantastic and theatrical; and now that his personal liberty was so sharply assailed, his self-respect so threatened, he was prepared to see everything in the most unfavorable light. He laughed bitterly in his mind at the tangle he was in, and contempt for himself and for the community took hold of his very soul.
But it was, you see, such a confoundedly energetic life, as vigorous and as slippery as an eel.... Only by giving all my strength to her could I have held Amanda.... So what was the good of trying to hold Amanda?... "All one's people have this sort of claim upon one. Claims made by their pride and their self-respect, and their weaknesses and dependences.
March, "just let me know when you're tempted to do that. If ever you sacrifice the smallest grain of your honesty or your self-respect to Mr. Dryfoos, or anybody else, I will simply renounce you." "In view of that I'm rather glad the management of 'Every Other Week' involves tastes and not convictions," said March.
Word Of The Day