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Updated: June 19, 2025
Of all the protean forms of misery that meet us in the bosom of that "stony-hearted stepmother, London," there is none that appeals so directly to our sympathies as the spectacle of a destitute child.
A maternal uncle, Samuel Brown, is favoured with one if, indeed, the old man was not scandalised with it and there are two to James Armour, mason in Mauchline, his somewhat stony-hearted father-in-law. Burns's letters exhibit quite as much variety of mood seldom, of course, so picturesquely conveyed as his poems.
Meantime, from all over Manila came the correspondents, burning with zeal and impatience, for the Esmeralda was scheduled to leave at five, and a stony-hearted censor at the Ayuntamiento had turned down whole pages of thrilling "copy" that would cost three dollars a word to send to the States, but sell for thirty times as much when it got there.
Oxford Street became to him as stony-hearted a step-mother as it was to De Quincey, and at melancholy last while his letters to Barbara became shorter and fewer he found an enforced way to the pawnbroker's, whither went all which his Uncle's capacious maw would receive; all, except the beloved violin which had so often sung to Barbara, so often sounded Love's sweet lullaby in the quiet of his own chamber.
The professor was firm as a rule; but when her joyous "Oh, I see exactly how it's done, now!" followed his patient reiteration of rules and explanations, how could he help rewarding himself by a glance at the glowing face? how could he keep his eyes permanently fixed upon that stony-hearted slate? So it went on through the winter and spring, till it was nearing the time for the summer vacation.
Nature has been shut out for numberless centuries from those stony-hearted streets, to which he had latterly grown accustomed; there is no trace of her, except for what blades of grass spring out of the pavements of the less trodden piazzas, or what weeds cluster and tuft themselves on the cornices of ruins.
Justice Coleridge as a 'stony-hearted man? What right had he to say that the judge and the magistrates, in doing what they honestly believed to be right, were 'criminals, who had 'committed a great crime? What right had he to say that their motives were 'the pride of their power and the wickedness of their hearts? What right had he to call one of the most admirable men in Britain 'this unjust and unrighteous judge? And where did Mr.
Becky paused with full eyes, for not even to these good friends could she ever tell the shifts and struggles in which she had bravely borne her part during the long hard years that had wrested the little homestead from the stony-hearted hills. The musical chime of a distant clock reminded her that supper time was near, and she sprang up as if much refreshed by this pleasant rest by the way-side.
He had seen the convulsions of the stony-hearted squire in the midst of his fetters, he had seen the tender child collapse beneath the touch of the horrible virago, and he had fulfilled his mission.
Another night in the stony-hearted, orange-coloured rooms, with the sleepless garçon sweeping and murmuring outside like a Banshee, while the hens roosted sociably in the gallery, the horses seemed to be champing directly under the bed, and the dead Huguenots bumping down upon the roof from the castle-walls. 'My heart is rent at leaving that lovely château, said Mat, as they crossed the bridge.
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