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He was not worse than foolish and somebody victimized him, but he has had his punishment and borne it very well while if you knew the whole story you would scarcely blame him." "And that is all you can tell me?" "Yes," said Thorne, very quietly. "Still, I can add that if Charley ever comes back to the old country I and my mother and sisters would be glad to welcome him."
Barbara was leaning out of the window, as the train drew into the station. Eric ran to her compartment; but for a time they were victimized by the nervous antics of an old lady with cumbrous luggage, who stood in the doorway calling with shrill helplessness for a porter.
The ingenuity of American pedlars in cozening their countrymen, has long been proverbial, and in general, people are wary of them; they have, however, I suppose by long practice, become such adepts at roguery, that however alive to their propensities, folks are daily victimized by such men.
Nothing can be easier than to make a poor catalogue, while nothing is more difficult than to make a good one. The most expert French bibliographers who have distinguished themselves by compiling catalogues have been most severely criticised by writers who no doubt would have been victimized in their turn if they had undertaken similar work. Byron says
The world is turning upside down. Now that girls are forbidden to perform to the gentlefolks, art is being cultivated by the upper classes; it cannot be killed outright. For the future the listeners will be paid to keep quiet and the singers pay for the right of torturing their ears our ears, our luckless ears will be victimized."
"Better they should think so than that she should be so. She has been victimized enough already to her mother's desire to save appearances." "You do not half believe me, Alick, and this is really a very kind, thoughtful arrangement of Mrs. Huntsford's.
And if the pastor failed to do this the surviving relatives whom the dead man had victimized every day he lived would be the first to resent it. I never knew but one pastor who told the truth in a funeral sermon, and he had to be "moved" immediately by his presiding elder. The whole community regarded it as one of the most brutal outrages that had ever been perpetrated in their midst.
He had been victimized. Agg's warnings and injunctions were ridiculous. What could he have done that he had not done? Run away with Marguerite, carry her off? Silly! No, he was well out of the affair. He perceived the limitations of the world in which Marguerite lived. It was a world too small and too austere for him.
He simply wants a lady confidante." I broke away from my brother's hold, and ran up to my room to see if all was right for my expected caller, giving my right ear a pull, by way of saying to that victimized organ, "You are needed." And what think you I did next? Got out my embroidery-material bag, and put it in order for action at a moment's warning.
If she sometimes victimized the poor artist, she had, on the other hand, delicate impulses like the grace of wild flowers; it was a joy to her to provide for all his wants; she would have given her life for him, and Wenceslas knew it.
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