The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Volume 6Dodd, Mead, 1904 |
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Page 212 - And sometimes he was prostrate — prostrate in soul and spirit. Then would he complain with bitter voice, crying out that the world was too hard for him, that his back was broken with his burden, that his God had deserted him. For days and days, in such moods, he would stay within his cottage, never darkening the door or seeing other face than those of his own inmates. Those days were terrible both to him and her. He would sit there unwashed, with his unshorn face resting on his hand, with an old...
Page 244 - You have no right to press me any further," she said; and sat down upon the sofa, with an angry frown upon her forehead. , " By heavens," he said, " I will take no such answer from you till you put your hand upon your heart, and say that you cannot love me.
Page 188 - Lufton had sympathised with her and encouraged her. She had endeavoured to moderate the blaze of her own splendour, in order that Lucy's unaccustomed eyes might not be dazzled. But all this was changed now. Lucy could listen to the young lord's voice by the hour together, — without being dazzled in the least. Under these circumstances two things occurred to her. She would speak either to her son or to Fanny Robarts, and by a little diplomacy have this evil remedied. And then she had to determine...
Page 33 - If these gentlemen do not mean to break their necks tonight,' said Mrs. Harold Smith, 'I wish they'd let us know it. It's half-past six already.' And then Mr. Robarts gave them to understand that no such catastrophe could be looked for that day, as Mr. Sowerby and the other sportsmen were within the stableyard when he entered the door. 'Then, ladies, we may as well dress,' said Mrs. Harold Smith. But as she moved towards the door, it opened, and a short gentleman, with a slow, quiet step, entered...
Page 105 - ... than he deserved. He knew that there must have been a fight, and that his wife, fighting loyally on his behalf, had got the best of it ; and he knew also that her victory had not been owing to the goodness of her cause. He frequently declared to himself that he would not be afraid of Lady Lufton ; but nevertheless these tidings that no reproaches were to be made to him afforded him great relief. On the following Friday they all went to the duke's, and found that the bishop and Mrs. Proudie were...
Page 46 - Robarts did not consider. He had obtained a living at an age when other young clergymen are beginning to think of a curacy, and he had obtained such a living as middle-aged parsons in their dreams regard as a possible Paradise for their old years. Of course he thought that all these good things had been the results of his own peculiar merits. Of course he felt that he was different from other parsons, — more fitted by nature for intimacy with great persons, more urbane, more polished, and more...
Page 143 - Lucy had sat at her father's elbow, had read to him of evenings when he went to sleep, had brought him his slippers and looked after the comforts of his easy-chair. All this she had done as a child ; but when she stood at the coffin head, and knelt at the coffin side, then she was a woman. She was smaller in stature than either of her three sisters, to all of whom had been acceded the praise of being fine women...
Page 284 - London would be most imprudent, if it should become necessary for him to give up the prebend. As to that he had made up his mind; — but then again he unmade it, as men always do in such troubles. That line of conduct which he had laid down for himself in the first moments of his indignation against Lord Lufton, by adopting which he would have to encounter poverty, and ridicule, and discomfort, the annihilation of his high hopes, and the ruin of his ambition, — that, he said to himself over and...