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If it was I that had the cold, I don't believe you'd be so fussy!" "Poor little girl, it's hard for you not to have seen them once more," Christopher said, tenderly, failing to meet the half-amused and half-indignant glance that Norma sent him. Leslie burst into self-pitying tears, and held tight to his hand, as they all sat down in Annie's room.
She was really a "gentlewoman," in the self-pitying and self-praising sense in which those who advertise themselves as such use that word. She was all the social forms, all the proprieties.
"That being so," said Reginald, slowly; "and if you do not feel alarmed about your spoons, I don't see why you should not make the little soul happy, and" he added with a smile "get a blessing too, old fellow, though I doubt you will bring a sad time on yourself, Lawrence." Lawrence gave a sort of self-pitying little shrug, but did not look daunted, and his cousin went on
But I'm nearly dead," and here Mr. Minorkey coughed and sighed, and put his hand on his breast in a self-pitying fashion. As Mr.
You oughtn't to be out, you poor little thing." The words brought the tears to the eyes of one weak with the self-pitying weakness of convalescence. "I wanted " "Are you a friend of Betty's?" "Yes no I don't know." "A hated rival perhaps," said the elder woman cheerfully. "You didn't come to do her a good turn, anyhow, did you?" "I I don't know." Again this was all that would come. "I do, though.
The self-pitying young man who thinks he has no chance may be interested in Lincoln's methods of getting ahead. He walked about twenty miles through the wilderness to borrow an English grammar. He could get no other books, so he read and re-read the statutes of Indiana. He wanted to teach himself to write well and think closely.
It was on the second day after the whisky-running that Kate Seton was returning home after an arduous morning in the village. She was feeling unusually depressed, and her handsome face was pathetically lacking in the high spirits and delight of living usual to it. It was not her way to indulge in the self-pitying joys of depression.
It all sounded straight, about the spoiled negative and so forth. He was very sorry that he had caused Luck Lindsay any inconvenience or annoyance, and he begged Luck's pardon several times in the course of his explanation of the details. They left him still protesting and apologizing and explaining and touching his bandaged head with self-pitying tenderness.
She saw them, and with an incoherent exclamation, half self-pitying, half impatient, ran out to the stars above her garden. She was there for perhaps half an hour, and just before she returned to the house she did a singular thing.
That generation had other instances of this intimacy of sentiment: Montaigne's Essays are full of it, the carvings of the church of Brou are full of it. M. Sainte-Beuve has perhaps exaggerated the influence of this quality in Du Bellay's Regrets; but the very name of the book has a touch of Rousseau about it, and reminds one of a whole generation of self-pitying poets in modern times.
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