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Updated: June 13, 2025
I should say they do, though all that and more also when their hearts were set on such a girl as yourself. For God's sake drop this shrewishness! Why should you be so difficult to me? Here am I with MY reputation, MY career, at your feet. Look here, Jessie on my honour, I will marry you " "God forbid," she said, so promptly that she never learnt he had a wife, even then.
The queen, too intelligent, despite her shrewishness to the Staten; not to be faithful to the cause in which her own interests were quite as much involved as theirs, had promised Envoy Caron that although she was obliged to maintain twenty thousand men in Ireland to keep down the rebels, directly leagued as they were with Spain and the archdukes, the republic might depend upon five thousand soldiers from England.
Handsome and probably clever, even good she might be, and yet remain unamiable. "I am afraid you have not had a happy life," said he, very gently, and the simplicity and kindness of his manner smote upon her stormy countenance, so that it melted and all the ugly hardness and latent shrewishness died away. "I have not, I have not!" she cried. "You see my situation here, my surroundings.
She was fed up with everything, the shrewishness of Mama Thérèse, the drunkenness of Papa Dupont, the hideous dullness of the café, the smell of food, the fumes of tobacco, the reek of wines. She was fed up with the leers of Papa Dupont, the scowls of Mama Thérèse, the grimaces of waiters, the stares of customers, the very sight of herself in the mirror across the room.
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