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After a deal of vain abuse of Gilfoyle for abducting their child and thwarting her golden opportunity, Adna asked at last, "What does Mr. Dyckman think of all this?" "You don't suppose I've told him I was married, do you?" Kedzie stormed. "Do I look as loony as all that?" "Oh!" said Adna. "Why, he doesn't even know my name is Thropp, to say nothing of Thropp-hyphen-Gilfoyle." "Oh!" said Adna.
Now and then, the angry fit that I had expected to see, came upon her; but it always went away again in a manner not at all natural to one of her passionate disposition. All this time, she led me as miserable a life as she could; provoking and thwarting and insulting me at every opportunity. I believe she suspected me, in the matter of the letters.
"Yes, Jake," said the dying man, with a glance of pity not unmingled with scorn, "it has come sooner than you or I expected, and it will save you some trouble maybe some regret. I've seen through your little game, Jake, and am glad I've been spared the necessity of thwarting you." He stopped owing to weakness, and Jake, recovering himself, hastily explained the reason of his sudden appearance.
The same sculptor, who unweariedly refines day after day to put in marble the image which haunts him, forms no such image of a woman whom he seeks unceasingly, or, if he does, he descends on one of the first twenty he meets and thinks he adores her. There is some strong thwarting power which prevents his search after the best, and it is as if nature had said that we should not pick and choose.
He bit the ends of his moustache, and his eyes glared at the impalpable thwarting force that to imagination seemed to fill the air about him. 'A lesson against being over-hasty, he muttered, again kicking the footstool. 'Did you make that considerate remark to Marian? asked Maud. 'There would have been no harm if I had done.
She was jealous, petulant, irritable. She envied others the love and the domestic enjoyments which ambition forbade her to share, and she seemed to take great pleasure in thwarting and interfering with the plans of others for securing this happiness. One remarkable instance of this kind occurred.
This was his sin in the eyes of the Pope, who would like to see all Germany drowned in her own blood: the Pope could not forgive the Emperor for thwarting his horrible design.
The General's mission was not the reconquest of the Soudan, but its peaceful evacuation, and the reconstruction of the country, by giving back to the Sultan the ancestral power which had been suspended during the Egyptian occupation. The Government had to consider in any steps which they took the danger of thwarting Gordon's peaceful mission and endangering his life." Mr.
Prosecuting no other parties than these, thwarting them in those defences that had never before failed, testifying in open court against the character of their witnesses, who appeared to be polished gentlemen, and enumerating the offences of which they had been guilty, and harassing them by all legal and legitimate means, he gathered around him a storm that not one man in a thousand could have withstood for an hour.
The responsibility of thwarting him to say nothing," added the doctor, drifting for a moment toward the truth, "of my natural apprehension, with such a temper as his friend's, of a scandal and disturbance in the house was not to be thought of for a moment. Mr. Armadale. Advise me, my dear madam, in this emergency," concluded the doctor, with his loudest emphasis.
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