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"The fact is," began Madeleine, laughing good-naturedly. "There! there!" cried M. de Bois, with a gesture of impatience and discouragement; "the fact is, that you laugh yourself, you, who are so forbearing!" "Pardon me; you mistook" "You could not help it, I know. It is precisely that which discourages me. And yet it is very odd!
At any rate, he made it out, and from that moment tried to impress upon me that I was in his power." "And did you tell him all?" "I I told him nothing. I let him think what he chose. I was not going, to break through my plans for his sake, nor for the sake of his foolish threats. But in thus forbearing I had to tolerate him, and hence this visit. He thinks that I am in his power.
This he bore to the Mistress; fairly vibrating with pride in his own exploit. Noting his joy in the deed, she made much of the shabby gift; praising and thanking Lad, inordinately; and forbearing to throw away the worn case until the collie was out of sight.
I well remembered the disdainful coldness of his face when he was listening to some one else, and I recollected how oddly it contrasted with his courteous forbearing speech. He would look at a man who made a remark with a cynical stare, and then in the very next moment would agree with him, and produce excellent arguments for doing so.
There is no accounting for tastes, seeing that these tumultuous walks were the delight of May's days, and that even Dora, with her inveterate sympathy, enjoyed them, though they deranged somewhat her sense of maidenly dignity and decorum. It was to be hoped that as Tray grew in years he would grow in discretion, and would show a little forbearance to the friends who were so forbearing to him.
Be forbearing and kind to me if I have innocently offended in this matter and I shall gratefully remember the day when I took it on myself to be Mr. Romayne's almoner." Lady Loring read these concluding sentences twice over. "I think the end of your letter will have its effect on him," she said. "If it brings me a kind letter in reply," Stella answered, "it will have all the effect I hope for."
'I am very sorry for it, but I cannot help it, said Mary; 'no one can be kinder or more forbearing than he has been, but I wish he would look elsewhere. 'So you have not got that nonsense out of your head! exclaimed Mr. Ponsonby, with muttered words that Mary would not hear. 'All my fault for ever sending you among that crew!
To see a successor in the actual possession of a dignity which a nine years' enjoyment had made indispensable to her; to see the authority, the glory, the splendor, the adoration, and all the marks of respect, which are the usual concomitants of supreme power, pass over to another; and to feel that she had lost that which she could never forget she had once held, was more than a woman's mind could endure; moreover, the Duke of Alva was of all men the least calculated to make her feel her privation the less painful by a forbearing use of his newly-acquired dignity.
Crumbie, of Cronstadt House, did not scruple to express themselves very plainly, and to whisper a question as to what was to be done should the lover make his appearance at Nuncombe Putney; but they who spoke of the matter before Dorothy, were at first more charitable, or, at least, more forbearing. Mr.
"Possibly, if I loved her; for then I would be patient and forbearing towards her faults. But I cannot even respect that handsome, fiery, impulsive, unreasonable child, much less love her; and, if I ever marry, my wife must be worthy to remould my own defective life and erring nature.
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