There have been such strange unexpected changes in my life during these last two years, that I feel more than ever that it is not worth while to calculate too closely what I should do if any future event took place. I try to think only upon the present.
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
Many a one is not well for a time; and with good advice gets better and stronger than ever.
Pray, speak, sir; to see your face, and not be able to read it, gives me a worse dread than I trust any words of yours will justify.
He went away as if weights were tied to every limb that bore him from her.
She lay with her face to the wall, muttering low, but muttering always: Alas! alas! what is done in youth can never be undone in age! what is done in youth can never be undone in age!
She then thought the land enchanted into everlasting brightness and happiness; she fancied, then, that into a region so lovely no bale or woe could enter, but would be charmed away and disappear before the sight of the glorious guardian mountains. Now she knew the truth, that earth has no barrier which avails against agony.
He went along the crowded streets mechanically, winding in and out among the people, but never seeing them, – almost sick with longing for that one half-hour – that one brief space of time when she clung to him, and her heart beat against his – to come once again.
He had married a delicate fine London lady; it was one of those perplexing marriages of which one cannot understand the reasons.
It is to God you answer, not to men. The shame of having your sin known to the world, should be as nothing to the shame you felt at having sinned. We have dreaded men too much, and God too little, in the course we have taken.
He thought that he disliked seeing one who had mortified him so keenly; but he was mistaken. It was a stinging pleasure to be in the room with her, and feel her presence.
If a wish could have transported her, she would have gone off; just for one day.
His greatest comfort was in hugging his torment; and in feeling, as he had indeed said to her, that though she might despise him, contemn him, treat him with her proud sovereign indifference, he did not change one whit. She could not make him change. He loved her and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.
Well, now, sir, I put it to yo’, being a parson, and having been in th’ preaching line, and having had to try and bring folk o’er to what yo’ thought was a right way o’ thinking – did yo’ begin by calling ‘em fools and such like, or didn’t yo’ rayther give ’em some kind words at first, to make ’em ready for to listen and be convinced, if they could;.
He was lashing himself again into an impotent rage, painful to a son to witness.
There was no need to struggle for their respect. He had it, and he knew it; and the security of this gave a fine grand quietness to his voice and ways, which Margaret had missed before. He.
But how would you have a wedding arranged?’ ‘Oh, I have never thought much about it; only I should like it to be a very fine summer morning; and I should like to walk to church through the shade of trees;.
God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none, but He knows the bitterness of our souls.
Roger let go; they were now on firm ground, and he did not wish any watchers to think that he was exercising any constraint over his father; and this quiet obedience to his impatient commands did more to soothe the Squire than anything else could have effected just then.
It is not right to anticipate evil, and to be always looking forward with an apprehensive spirit; but I think grief is a two–edged sword, it cuts both ways; the memory of one loss is the anticipation of another.