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But he doesn't know the meaning of justice, and she is not fine, or brave, or clever, or any of the things I thought she was, because she wants to marry him." His mother considered this speech. "It's no good vexing yourself about the past," she said. "You and me have got to look to the future, Abel, and not to dwell on all that don't make the future any easier.
They were well fed, well clothed, attended the best schools but as they advanced beyond the years of infancy, there was in each of them the sullen look, or the discouraged tone, the tart reply, or the vexing remark, which made them any thing but beloved by their companions, any thing but happy themselves.
So sin, a corroding drop, a dark, deadly, vexing, torturing thing, fell upon God's fair creation, threatening to inoculate it with a poison that should leaven the whole lump, and change its beauty into corruption.
She must tell her beloved son why it was there never had been, and never could be, understanding between John Grier and himself. She had arrived at that point where naught was to be gained by further concealment. So through long hours she struggled with her problem, and she was glad Carnac did not come during the vexing day.
"It's to forget me sorrows, me poor girl, that I've taken just a drop," cried the bereaved father "it's to drown me care that I drain the bowl." "Your care takes a deal of drowning, Captain dear," said Bows, mimicking his friend's accent; "what has happened? Has that soft-spoken gentleman in the wig been vexing you?" "The oily miscreant! I'll have his blood!" roared Cos.
I trust you will believe me when I tell you that your illogic is far more painful for me to endure than all your tortures." "Are you going to stop your knuckle-talking?" he demanded. "No; forgive me for vexing you for I feel so strong a compulsion to talk with my knuckles that " "For two cents I'll put you back in the jacket," he broke in. "Do, please. I dote on the jacket. I am the jacket baby.
Miss Adams mentioned a gentleman of licentious character, and said, 'Suppose I had a mind to marry that gentleman, would my parents consent? JOHNSON. 'Yes, they'd consent, and you'd go. You'd go though they did not consent. Miss ADAMS. 'Perhaps their opposing might make me go. JOHNSON. 'O, very well; you'd take one whom you think a bad man, to have the pleasure of vexing your parents.
It is not as friends of ours that I would in any way plead their cause with their own near relation. 'No, of course not, said Frances. But still she did not seem satisfied. 'Jacinth has always been so afraid of vexing Lady Myrtle by seeming to interfere, she said. 'And even Aunt Alison said it was better not. 'Very likely not. You are both too young to have it in your power to do anything.
You're genteel, and you're already getting a hundred and eighty francs a month, and it's vexing that you haven't got some sign to show that you're on the commercial side, and not a workman, when you're going in and out of the factory." "That can be seen easily enough." "I'd rather you had a badge."
"Why are the dead not dead? Who can undo What time hath done? Who can win back the wind? Beckon lost music from a broken lute? Renew the redness of a last year's rose? Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?" "Dr. Grey, if my voice can chase away one vexing thought, one wearying care or melancholy memory, I shall feel that I have additional reason to thank God for the precious gift."
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