" "You have never felt the sort of misery I felt," said Will; "the misery of knowing that you must despise me.
But there were strong cords pulling him back from that abrupt departure: the blight on his happiness in thinking of Dorothea, the crushing of that chief hope which had remained in spite of the acknowledged necessity for renunciation, was too fresh a misery for him to resign himself to it and go straightway into a distance which was also despair.
The fragile creature who was crying close to her—there might still be time to rescue her from the misery of false incompatible bonds; and this moment was unlike any other: she and Rosamond could never be together again with the same thrilling consciousness of yesterday within them both.
It was not in Dorothea's nature, for longer than the duration of a paroxysm, to sit in the narrow cell of her calamity, in the besotted misery of a consciousness that only sees another's lot as an accident of its own.
When Will had ceased to speak she had become an image of sickened misery: her lips were pale, and her eyes had a tearless dismay in them.
Whatever might be the truth about all this misery, there was one dread which asserted itself.
He felt himself perishing slowly in unpitied misery.
Lydgate, who himself was undergoing a shock as from the terrible practical interpretation of some faint augury, felt, nevertheless, that his own movement of resentful hatred was checked by that instinct of the Healer which thinks first of bringing rescue or relief to the sufferer, when he looked at the shrunken misery of Bulstrode's livid face.
He sat down by the bed and leaning over her said with almost a cry of prayer— "Forgive me for this misery, my poor Rosamond!
But he had no hereditary constitutional craving after such transient escapes from the hauntings of misery.
Raffles' slow wink and slight protrusion of his tongue was worse than a nightmare, because it held the certitude that it was not a nightmare, but a waking misery.
A few rows of figures are enough to deduce misery from, and a few more will show the rate at which the political determination of the people is growing.
Instead of wondering at this result of misery in Mr.
Vincy seeing her darling's changed looks and general misery, began to cry and said she would send for Dr.
Would you turn all the youth of the world into a tragic chorus, wailing and moralizing over misery?
He for his part had tossed away all cheap inventions where ignorance finds itself able and at ease: he was enamoured of that arduous invention which is the very eye of research, provisionally framing its object and correcting it to more and more exactness of relation; he wanted to pierce the obscurity of those minute processes which prepare human misery and joy, those invisible thoroughfares which are the first lurking-places of anguish, mania, and crime, that delicate poise and transition which
She felt some disappointment, of which she was yet ashamed, that there was nothing for her to do in Lowick; and in the next few minutes her mind had glanced over the possibility, which she would have preferred, of finding that her home would be in a parish which had a larger share of the world's misery, so that she might have had more active duties in it.
He was young still, and in a few years he would look back on all his misery with a sadness in which there would be something not unpleasurable.
I suppose he had some idea that the sight of his misery would touch her.
It was not strange that he should so heartlessly have betrayed his friends' confidence, nor that he hesitated not at all to gratify a whim at the cost of another's misery.
