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"Ah, my little birdie, it is all over," whispered Francesca, as she laid it softly down, and unconsciously lifted her hand to her own head with a self-pitying gesture that was sorrowful to behold.
He paused a moment, as if in mental contemplation, and then the words dropped slowly from his lips, as a dim self-pitying smile rested on his haggard face. "I really think you would be sorry for me if you knew how very bitter was my disappointment when I found that, these bright promises were only figurative expressions which I had taken literally.
It was Bland this and that, when you wanted the plane repaired. Now you've got it, and it's git-ta-hell and git busy. Pull a gun on me, beat me up accuse me of things I never done drag me outa bed before daylight " His self-pitying whine droned on monotonously, but he nevertheless got into his clothes and pottered around the plane by the light of the lantern and the flaring fire Johnny started.
Then the story, the unhappy story, whined out in that self-pitying voice which ever bespeaks the loss of pride that characteristic of wholesome normal womanhood. Her parents had probably never been happy together. The spring she was in the Seminary, ill, her mother left home. There was a separation.
Those who waste efforts in pitying themselves are not of the stuff to make France victorious." "I am afraid I have done a lot of self-pitying, Jeanne." "Don't do it any more," she said gently. "I won't," said he. "If you keep to the soul you have gained, you can't," said Jeanne. "Toujours la sagesse." "You are laughing at me." "God forbid," said Doggie.
Even at that moment with his self-pitying voice in her ears, reciting his Iliad of reflected troubles, her mind found a whimsical parallel for his self-absorption. He was like some unheroic wanderer in desert places who had stumbled upon another equally unfortunate, but more stalwart of heart.
He imagines himself, I find, to be a very polite man, and cannot bear to be thought otherwise. Then that is your misfortune, Mr. Lovelace, as well as mine, at present. It is not habit. It is too much seen by fits and starts, and sallies, and those not spontaneous. You must be reminded into them. O Lord! O Lord! Poor I! was the light, yet the half-angry wretch's self-pitying expression!
Evadna laughed a self-pitying laugh, and rocked her small person violently. "I wish I could have an office and live in it and telegraph things to people," she sighed, and laughed again most adorably at her own childishness. "But really and truly, it's enough to drive a person CRAZY, down at the ranch!"
This feeling, which seems to assure me that such things cannot happen to us, is but one of the cheats and illusions of a shrinking and self-pitying spirit. All the memories that cluster about a happy childhood, all the sweet associations of home and kindred, afford no guarantee against the new and bitter experiences which seem about to open up upon us."
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