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Consider his position, you faint-hearted and self-pitying young men who think you have a tough row to hoe just because, when you pay your evening visit with the pound box of candy under your arm, you see the handsome sophomore from Yale sitting beside her on the porch, playing the ukulele.
Her yielding amiability could always be counted upon as a factor by the calculating; sweet-tempered to weakness, she could be beguiled or distressed into any course the desires of others dictated. An ill-tempered or self-pitying person could alter any line of conduct she herself wished to pursue. "She was neither clever nor strong-minded," Betty said to herself.
"Why weren't you at the door to meet me when I came back to-night with that-that in my pocket?" she asked him, his arm round her. "I've got a kicking lung, you know," he said, with a half ironical, half self-pitying smile. "Oh, forgive me, forgive me, Tom, my love!" she said as she buried her face on his breast.
"To show you what an overwhelming mass of evidence we have against you. And to give you a last opportunity to explain." Collins's eyes traveled about the room, lingering on the various objects that were so intimately associated with the woman whom he had thought so loyal. "So she too was ready to turn against me!" He shook his head in a self-pitying way.
And yet a hundred times have I discovered that life, which seemed at dawn nothing but a tangle of intolerable problems, has become at noon a very bearable and even interesting affair; and one should thus learn to appreciate the tonic value of occupation, and set oneself to discern some pursuit, if we have no compulsory duties, which may set the holy mill revolving, as Dante says; for it is the homely grumble of the gear which distracts us from the other sort of grumbling, the self-pitying frame of mind, which is the most fertile seed-plot of fear.
She clung to him caressingly. "But you're going to forgive him before he goes, Timothy. There's no time to be angry before he goes. It may be too late to-morrow." "It may be too late to-morrow," repeated Sir Timothy, heavily. He resented, in a dull, self-pitying fashion, the fact that his wife's thoughts were so exclusively fixed on Peter, in her ignorance of his own more immediate danger.
'Eh, but ye gae me sic a are wi' yer whup jist here upo' the haffit! Luik. He turned the side of his head toward her, and stroked the place, like a small, self-pitying child. Kirsty went to him, and kissed it like a mother.
The rapid succession of misfortunes which had been visited on her had made her wary of anything that savored of a more favorable providence. So she received the confirmation of her inheritance with a self-pitying stare, as if it must, of necessity, hide some new form of anguish. "Don't you realize what it means?" Luckstone tried to encourage her. "It means that the bank is saved.
If Bland had not shown a town man's ignorance of the tale a man's tracks will tell, Johnny would never have suspected anything. Bland had also threatened to wreck the plane for revenge, but Johnny did not worry about that. He had retaliated with a threat to starve Bland until he repaired whatever damage he wrought and Bland had seen the point, and had subsided into his self-pitying whine.
Perhaps because he was so pale and helpless; perhaps the old argument "it's his way he don't know it isn't customary;" perhaps for this also must have a place perhaps from a fear lest he should make no attempt to regain it. She felt his bearded lips press against it. At the touch, a sudden weakness, a self-pitying sensation, came over her, and the tears started to her eyes.
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