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She hoped it was, after all, only for a short time, and consoled herself with the thought that a cell in a convent would have been worse still. And any thing was better than her father's house. "At least," she said, "I shall be quiet and undisturbed here." Perhaps she was to be morally quiet; for as to any other peace, she was soon to be taught differently.
Pen had accepted the first ill thought that had occurred to him, and this was that his companion had turned worse in the night and was dying.
He stood for a few minutes irresolute, wondering if he could ask whether the duchess had taken her young companion with her, and then he remembered that he did not even know her name. How was the day to pass? Matters were worse than ever. If he had seen her, if he could have spoken to her, he might perhaps have felt better; as it was, the fever of unrest had deepened.
Me he never forgave for helping make him the happy man he might have been in spite of his age. For she is lovely! But it's worse for a lovely woman with a damaged reputation. And that 's his cunning. How she could be so silly as to play into it! She can't have demeaned herself to look on that secretary! I said from the first he seemed as if thrown into her way for a purpose.
"Swedenborg," said the Elder, "was an insane man, or worse." "Perhaps so," said the Doctor; "but there is a great deal of 'method in his madness, and plain common sense too. There is one grand and beautiful idea underlying all his revelations or speculations about the future life.
In a quarter of a mile they drew rein, and found that a ball had passed through the upper part of Kate's arm, as it went round Dick's body. Fortunately it had gone through the flesh only, without touching the bone. Dick was bleeding copiously from a wound across the cheek. "Another two inches to the right," he said, "and it would have taken me fairly in the mouth. It's well it's no worse."
It came very quickly, and in a worse form than Stephen had expected. Miss Lorenzi was in the Palm Court, and would Mr. Knight please come to her there? Of course he had to obey; but it was harder than ever to remain expressionless.
I have almost passed over a long life without any offence of moment, either active or passive, or without ever hearing a worse word than my own name: a rare favour of Heaven. Our greatest agitations have ridiculous springs and causes: what ruin did our last Duke of Burgundy run into about a cartload of sheepskins!
But then he stated it was the candid construction of the law of England, that the worse the crime, the more strong should be the evidence.
It is accepted by men of all religious opinions, equally with men of no religious opinions. If any truth be self-evident and eternal, here is that truth. To call it in question would be worse than idle. We may doubt the reality of an external world, we may be sceptical as to the reality of our own bodies, but we cannot doubt that there is something.
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