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For a moment her utterance was checked by sobs. Then she controlled herself again by an effort so piteous to behold that even the flinty-hearted Ruthven was moved to some compassion. "Forgive this weakness in me, who am very weak, for very soon I am to be brought to bed as you well know, and I am in no case to offer resistance to any. I have no more to say, my lords.
Oh, my dear fellow, I'm the very happiest man alive, and, egad, that reminds me! I'm also the discredited and disinherited son of a flinty-hearted Roman." "What Dick, do you mean he has cut you off?" "As much as ever he could, my dear fellow, which reduces my income by a half. Deuced serious thing, y' know, Bev.
"No, sir," replied the pale-faced youth, fidgeting. "Mental malady eh?" The young man sighed. "See it all. Don't say a word, man! Cupid, heart from heart, forced to part. Flinty-hearted father?" "No, sir." "Flinty-hearted mother?" "No, sir." "Flinty-hearted aunt?" The lovesick young man sighed, and nodded assent. "Tell me the story. I'm a stranger but my heart is here, sir."
Most of all I diagnosed him as economical of himself, of his men and of his possessions, especially of cash; as swayed by self-interest alone, as flinty-hearted; yet as capable of kindliness when it did not interfere with his plans and was not too expensive. I waited in silence for him to speak. He said: "I am a very busy man, even far too busy.
But here you are embarked on a difficult enterprise, with a band of flinty-hearted cutthroats trying to beat you to it, and, my dear child, you have a staunch nature and a heart of gold, but you simply can't afford to be modest. "'I don't understand, says she, looking at herself in the glass again. "'Trust me, anyway, I implores.
At last he broke out with an oath. "Be George! Baumser, I can't stand that young fellow Girdlestone. I'll have to chuck him up. He's such a cold-blooded, flinty-hearted, calculating sort of a chap, that " The remainder of the major's sentence was lost in the beer flagon. "What for did you make him your friend, then?"
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