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When you first told me that you loved me, you said, and you have often said so since then, that it was my "brightness and gayety" that attracted you. I knew there was something underneath my gayety better worth your love, and was glad I could give you more than you asked for.
Where the trail from the cabins debouched upon the main mesa road he slowed the car to a stop and sat for a time in thought, with the engine humming softly and the freezing night air biting at his cheeks. It seemed to make little difference where he went, or if he went at all. Nothing worth while was at the end of any road.
And even if there be nothing but fish in Jupiter, why shouldn't the fish there be as wide awake as the men and women here?" "That would be saying very little for them," said Charlotte. "I am for Dr. Whewell myself, for I do not think that men and women are worth being repeated in such countless worlds. There may be souls in other stars, but I doubt their having any bodies attached to them.
So he bought a hundred dirhems' worth of glass and putting it in a great basket, sat down, to sell it, on a raised bench, at the foot of a wall, against which he leant his back.
She very nearly lost consciousness that she was a separate being, with a future of her own. On a morning of slight depression, such as this, she would try to find some sort of clue to the muddle which their old letters presented; some reason which seemed to make it worth while to them; some aim which they kept steadily in view but she was interrupted. Mrs.
This minute, as I stand, I'm worth twenty-five thousand more money than I ever hoped to see in this life. It means a lot to me a start toward independence but I'd give every cent of it for some reliable assurance that Brian Shaynon and his son mean you no harm." Surprised and impressed by his unwonted seriousness, the girl instinctively shrank back against the balustrade. "Mr.
This is only one of the many stories that might be told about the boys who have been helped by the various activities of the Salvation Army, both at home and abroad. It would be well worth one's while to visit their Brooklyn Hospital and their New York Hospital and all their other wonderful institutions.
For she had been bred in that strong sense of personal dignity which is the modern substitute for the abasements and humiliations of faith. And with that sense of dignity went reserve the intimate conviction that no feeling which is talked about, which can be observed and handled and measured by other people, is worth a rush.
They were not greatly reassured, because Jake's idea of what was really bad was alarming. Nasmyth glanced at his companion with a smile. "Is it any better than this?" he asked. "A little," answered Jake. "An old trail runs in." "Gladwyne's trail?" exclaimed Nasmyth. "The one we're looking for?" "Why, yes," drawled Jake, as if it were scarcely worth mentioning. "I guess it is."
And at last the masses of the people are becoming restless, not so much because they lack leisure and luxury, but because they have nothing to live for. "Millions ask the question: Is life worth living? "Because they have begun to ask it, they will never cease until they have made it worth living. "A deep, half-confused consciousness of the injustice of life has begun to clutch our throats.
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