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He, too, pities Soames, the tragedy of whose life is the very simple, uncontrollable tragedy of being unlovable, without quite a thick enough skin to be thoroughly unconscious of the fact. Not even Fleur loves Soames as he feels he ought to be loved.
"In the centre of this unlovable and undesirable country the mountain of which I want to speak lifts its lofty head. Call it 'Mount Pisgah' or 'Mount Beulah, or, if you will, call it 'Mount Purity' I like that term the best.
"And some day the others would come to feel the same," she told herself resentfully, "if nothing was done for them. It was cruel. No one seemed to care for them, or how they grew up." And then again, she would hate herself for her bad temper, and the nasty things she said. She knew she was making herself unlovable, and she did so long for love. Mrs.
And after a time she went away with your father. I did not know until then how much I did care. The whole world suddenly seemed to turn black under my fingers, and But, never mind. For long years I have been a cross, crabbed, unlovable, unloved old man though I'm not nearly sixty, yet, Pollyanna.
In a world where doing means marrying, and the commonwealth is one of hearts and hands, the same peril attends the condition. And so we see our Eustacia for at times she was not altogether unlovable arriving at that stage of enlightenment which feels that nothing is worth while, and filling up the spare hours of her existence by idealizing Wildeve for want of a better object.
We are willing to admit that the wolves are not villanous, but, assuredly, they are unlovable. In the course of the afternoon the three horsemen reached a small creek, the banks of which were lined with a few stunted shrubs and trees. Having eaten nothing since the night before, they dismounted here to "feed," as Joe expressed it.
There lay revealed all that was crude, all that was savage, all that was unlovable and impossible of Heart's Desire. It had been a dream, but it was a man's dream in which he had lived. For a woman for her for this sweet girl of a gentler world, that dream could be nothing else than hideous. "Be just! Be fair!"
He had a very friendly feeling toward both the girls. Indeed, all the women he had met of late had attracted him, in different ways. It was hard to believe that any of them possessed unlovable qualities, though there was not one among them to compare with Evelyn. Whatever he liked most in the others intelligence, beauty, tenderness, courage reminded him of her.
We can go about with a sharp eye for the lovable or for the unlovable in man. We can either consciously war against or lazily acquiesce in our own predominant self-absorption and selfishness. And in these and in a number of other ways, our feelings towards other Christian people are very largely under our own control, and therefore are fitting subjects for commandment.
Your throat is too thick, you have the real singer's throat; thousands of pounds lie hidden in that whiteness, which is mine the whiteness, not the gold." "How you know how to praise, Owen!" "I love that sweet indecision of chin." "A retreating chin means want of character." "You have not what I call a retreating chin, the line merely deflects. Nothing more unlovable than a firm chin.
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