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"Alas!" thought she, gazing upon the proud and animated brow that bent down upon her; "Alas! though in a different sphere, thy lot, my father, has been mine; toil unrepaid, affection slighted, sacrifices forgotten; a harder lot in part; for thou hadst, at least, in thy stirring and magnificent career, continued excitement and perpetual triumph.
"What the deuce would you like, then?" testily demanded the old sailor. "If you please, sir, nothing; do not trouble yourself." "But you saved the life of my boys, you proud little rascal and do you suppose I am going to let that pass unrepaid?" "Sir, I am glad the young gentlemen are safe; that is enough for me." "But I'll be shot if it is enough for me!"
Did longing for affection lost Barb every deadly dart; Love unrepaid, and Faith betrayed, Did these torment his heart? No! leave to man his proper doom! These are the pangs that rise Around the bed of state and gloom, Where Adam's offspring dies! This is perhaps a fitting time to give some personal description of Miss Bronte.
"When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliations of every fault; we recollect a thousand endearments which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favours unrepaid, a thousand duties unperformed, and wish, vainly wish, for his return, not so much that we may receive, as that we may bestow happiness, and recompense that kindness which before we never understood."
What piteous existences to be sure! I do wonder, as I walk among them, well fed, well clothed, young, strong, idle, doing nothing but ride and drive about all day, a woman, a creature like themselves, who have borne children too, what sort of feeling they have towards me. I wonder it is not one of murderous hate that they should lie here almost dying with unrepaid labour for me.
So tenuous it was and distant that I could think of no personality behind it. Rather it was the viewless, bodiless grace of this delectable vale, some old exquisite divinity of the groves. There was the heart of all sorrow in it, and the soul of all loveliness. It seemed a woman's voice, some lost lady who had brought nothing but goodness unrepaid to the world.
"Alas!" thought she, gazing upon the proud and animated brow that bent down upon her; "Alas! though in a different sphere, thy lot, my father, has been mine; toil unrepaid, affection slighted, sacrifices forgotten; a harder lot in part; for thou hadst, at least, in thy stirring and magnificent career, continued excitement and perpetual triumph.
There had been small unrepaid loans which Elaine would not have grudged in themselves, though the application for them brought a certain qualm of distaste; with the perversity which seemed inseparable from his doings, Comus had always flung away a portion of his borrowings in some ostentatious piece of glaring and utterly profitless extravagance, which outraged all the canons of her upbringing without bringing him an atom of understandable satisfaction.
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