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The whispering, the nodding, the screwing up of lips, the portentous frowning and the shaking of heads no such excitement was on record! "To me," remarked Mrs. Mumbray, with an air of great responsibility, "the mystery is too plain. I don't hint at the worst it would be uncharitable but the poor creature had undoubtedly made some discovery in that woman's house which drove her to despair." Mrs.
Greatrex felt sure that Ernest had come to Pilbury of malice prepense, as part of a deep-laid scheme to injure and ruin the doctor by his horrid revolutionary notions. 'He does it on purpose, she used to say; 'he talks in that way because he knows it positively shocks and annoys us. He pretends to be very innocent all the time; but at heart he's a malignant, jealous, uncharitable creature.
Looking at the question from the strictly commonsense point of view, it would appear to the observer that those who do the most good or the least harm are the uncharitable.
"From what? From Peter? There are many worse people than Peter to save myself from, Mrs. Boyer uncharitable people, and and cruel people." Mrs. Boyer shrugged her plump shoulders. "Meaning me!" she retorted. "My dear child, people are always cruel who try to save us from ourselves."
In her heart of hearts she knew that she was full of uncharitable thoughts against her own cousin. And how was it, notwithstanding Betty's ignoble confession, the other girls still loved her? "What do you intend to do, supposing she does not confess?" said Fanny after a pause.
Toward the end of the fifth day Don Quixote was resting in the shade of some trees, and as always happened when he lay down to rest, his thoughts turned to the disenchantment of his Dulcinea and a feeling of impatience with his selfish and uncharitable squire rose up within him.
"I don't want to say anything uncharitable against the man, though I might; but I will say that there's danger and that I do well to be a miserable woman till the danger's past. You tell me to cheer up, and I promise to cheer up quick enough when there's reason to do so. Mr.
And, alas! with good reason, men having a larger share of that greatest of gifts, charity! their knowledge of human nature making them rarely censorious, their education giving them larger, broader views; how many women, alas, are essentially censorious, uncharitable and narrow-minded. Yes, nature has been lavish in gifts to Adam, as opposed to Eve.
The colonization movement, however, was supported also by some white men who, seeing the educational progress of the colored people during the period of better beginnings, felt that they should be given an opportunity to be transplanted to a free country where they might develop without restriction. Timorous southerners, however, soon had other reasons for their uncharitable attitude.
Perhaps we have all of us more of it than we should like to admit to ourselves. But now, to tell the truth, I am on the look-out for one or two unselfish people; can either of you, my dear friends, help me to find them?" "I think you will search in vain in this neighbourhood," said the old lady dryly. "Nay, my dear Miss Stansfield, are you not a little uncharitable?
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