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Updated: June 25, 2025
If he discovered her fraud, would he spare her for the sake of the family name and honor? No. He would do something, but what? She dared not contemplate. She dared not think of the frailness of the barriers which stood between herself and the possible consequences of her crime.
Standing by it, one of his lean hands resting upon the back, he surveyed them, disgust in his glance, a sneer curling his lip, so terrible and brutal of aspect despite his frailness that more than one of those stout fellows quailed now before him.
Elsa looked alternately at the dagger and at her husband, bewildered. "I never saw it before, nor anything like it," she replied. "Where did you find it? It is so frail it must be for ornament merely." "Its frailness is deceptive. It is a most wonderful instrument, and I should like to know where it comes from.
Then there are the regimental babalogue, the soldiers' children, sturdiest and toughest of Anglo-Indian urchins, affording, in their brown cheeks and crisp muscles and boisterous ways, a consoling contrast to the oh-call-it-pale-not-fairness, and the frailness, and premature pensiveness of the little Civil Service.
The Lieutenant met the look of appeal in the trader's eyes, and nodded to imply his complete understanding and approval. "We love some women for their goodness, others we love for their frailness, but there never was one who combined the two like her, and, now that I knew she loved me, I began to believe again there was a God somewhere.
There are few conditions into which man can possibly fall where he will not feel a deep interest in the preservation of his existence; an interest momentarily increasing with the frailness of the tenure by which that existence may be held.
They had all been built, and worn out, and thrown aside, since I was here last. This gives one a realizing sense of the frailness of a Mississippi boat and the briefness of its life.
Beneath the blue curtain she stood talking to her partner after the dance; and he did not go to speak to her, but remained looking. They only danced together twice; and that evening was realized by him in a strangely intense and durable perception of faint scent and fluent rhythm. The sense of her motion, of her frailness, lingered in his soul ever afterwards.
And oddly enough at that time Riddle's words of long ago came to me, "God help the woman you love or the man you fight." How shall I describe him? He was thin even to seeming frailness, yet it was the frailness of the race-horse. The golden hair, sun-tanned, awry across his forehead, the face the same thin and finely cut face of the boy.
When she had done, his frown cleared, he shook his head. "I don't think it need," he said. "Her delicacy, her frailness, have never struck me as indicating weakness, they seem simply the proper physical accompaniments of her crystalline little soul, she's made of a fine and delicate clay.
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