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"And the child is the living physical image of her," he stammered. "The violent hair, the ghost-white skin, the facile mouth, the arrogant eyes, staring staring maddeningly reproachful, persistently accusing. My own stubborn will, my own hideous temper, all my own ill-favored mannerisms mocked back at me eternally in her mother's unloved features."
The man held his breath, and remained very still, as if fearful lest word or movement should break the spell. After five years of unloved loneliness, this first spontaneous caress from his wife, with its delicate suggestion of intimacy, seemed to break down invisible barriers and set new life coursing in his veins. "You forbid it?" she echoed, on a tremulous note of happiness.
Oh! what a bitter fate is mine, to have brought misery on all I love, and, in the end, to die unloved! To thee I have atoned; to my angered Gods I have atoned; and now I go to find a way whereby I may atone to Cleopatra in that Hell where she is, and which I must share! For she loved me well, Harmachis; and, now that she is dead, methinks that, after thee, I loved her best of all.
But my vocation is not for the cloister, and therefore I implore your highness's protection. I beseech you, give me the place made vacant by the marriage of your maid of honor, and save me from a life of misery. In my father's house I am solitary and unloved: but even loneliness of heart I could endure, if I were permitted to endure it in peace! But a compulsory marriage is worse to me than death!
She was an utterly loveless woman, living unloving, and unloved a terrible condition. One could not like her. Deadly dull, narrow, pedantic, petty, uninspiring, Miss Smellie's ideals, standards, and aims were incredibly low. She lived, and taught others to live, for appearances.
Just as my heart yearns over the unloved, just so it sorrows for the ungifted who are doomed to the pangs of an undeceived self- estimate. I have always tried to be gentle with the most hopeless cases. My experience, however, has not been encouraging.
Our common readings in the fictitious romances which mark out a plot and measure their characters to fit into it, had made Rosamund hopeful of the effect of that story of Renee. Rosamund had counted on it. She looked intently at Cecilia. 'He is ruined, wasted, ill, unloved; he has lost you I am the cause! she cried in a convulsion of grief. 'Dear Lady Romfrey! Cecilia would have consoled her.
Ianson's did more for the suit of the unloved, or only half-loved lover, than he himself ever dreamed of. "Well," said that lady, with sly, matronly smile, as, showing more attention than usual, she lighted Agatha's candle for bed "Well, my dear Miss Bowen, is the wedding to be at my house?" "What wedding?" "Oh, you know; you know!
I feel that I am ill-fated and despised, Lizzie; and feeling so, I do not desire to overshadow the life of Mark Abrams. I love him too much, too dearly, ever to becloud his future with my miserable life. I would rather live on and suffer in silence, as I have done for years, unloved and unloving to the end." Here the beautiful girl ceased her story. Both friends for a time were silent.
"Stay a moment," said Major Hardwicke to Captain Anson Anstruther, when Nadine had fled away to prepare for her flitting from the unloved granite fortress. "When do you go over to London, Anstruther?" said Major Hardwicke, for he now nourished a scheme of "social employment" for the brilliant staff officers. He was short only a groomsman.
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