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Updated: June 6, 2025
That had at the time dimly recalled to Maisie the far-away moment of Moddle's great outbreak: there seemed always to be "shames" connected in one way or another with her migrations. At present, while Mrs.
The second of the sons of Henry IV., who was no more fortunate as a father than as a husband, younger brother of Louis XIII., and father of the great Mademoiselle, the most celebrated, most ambitious, most self-complacent, and most unsuccessful fille a marier in French history, passed in enforced retirement at the castle of Blois the close of a life of clumsy intrigues against Cardinal Richelieu, in which his rashness was only equalled by his pusillanimity and his ill-luck by his inaccessibility to correction, and which, after so many follies and shames, was properly summed up in the project be- gun, but not completed of demolishing the beautiful habitation of his exile in order to erect a better one.
Marshall, "with that crown of light on its brow; does it not give you the feeling of something inapproachable not literally but spiritually, something pure, glorious, infinite something that shames us mortals into insignificance?" I looked, and I thought I knew why he felt as he did; but I did not think I could explain it to him just then.
It happens that in my younger days I found a character in the history of literature who had a singular and extraordinary charm for me, of whom the thought was tender and comforting, who indeed helped me through shames and humiliations as though he held my hand. This person was Oliver Goldsmith. His blunders and troubles, his vices and vanities, seized and still hold my imagination.
Nature has done her share with a prodigality that shames our little human narrowness. Now if we had men to match our mountains, if we had men to match our plains, if our thoughts were as clear as our sunlight, we would be able to stand up high enough to see over the rim of things.
I must behold him suffer as I suffered, hear his groans, see his tears I that do grieve a father untimely dead, I that have endured at this man's will a thousand shames and torment beyond telling! But on the voyage mutiny broke out, headed by that evil rogue, Tressady. Then was I tricked and cast adrift in an open boat by Adam Penfeather, the master " "Penfeather, young sir, Adam Penfeather!
If it shames you for me to be like you, then I will teach you all they taught me, and we will all be like our white father. "So we all agreed to have it so, if he would tell us what to do. After that we came in here with Godfrey, and we stood looking at my father's white face. Godfrey all alone had straked him out on this table, with the silver-pieces on the eyes that we had feared.
Even now sitting in a pleasant room, with windows opening down on a trim lawn studded with flower-jewels and girdled with the mottled belts of velvet-green that are the glory of Devonion shrub-land, beyond which Tobray shimmers broad and blue under the breezy summer weather I shrink from it with a strange reluctance that I cannot, shake off, though it shames me.
That day that she suffered no tribulation for our Lord's sake, she was not merry nor glad, as that day when she suffered tribulation. Our Lord Jesus said unto her: "Patience is more worth than miracles doing. Daughter, it is more pleasure to Me that thou suffer despites, scorns, shames, reproofs, wrongs, and diseases, than if thine head were stricken off three times a day every day in seven year."
Say, will ye follow me, my sisters, and wreak our shames upon the Shameful One, our woes upon the Spring of Woe, our dead upon their murderess?" She ceased, and then from every woman's throat within the great Temple there went up a cry of rage, fierce and shrill. "We will, Meriamun, we will!" they screamed. "To the Hathor! Lead us to the Hathor's Shrine! Bring fire! Bring fire!
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