The fire of Dorothea's anger was not easily spent, and it flamed out in fitful returns of spurning reproach.
That they were false, the general had learnt from the very person who had suggested them, from Thorpe himself, whom he had chanced to meet again in town, and who, under the influence of exactly opposite feelings, irritated by Catherine's refusal, and yet more by the failure of a very recent endeavour to accomplish a reconciliation between Morland and Isabella, convinced that they were separated forever, and spurning a friendship which could be no longer serviceable, hastened to contradict all th
A maths genius who won fame this week for apparently spurning a million-dollar prize is living with his mother in a humble flat in St Petersburg, co-existing on her £30-a-month pension, because he has been unemployed for many years.
" "You are spurning you own good luck," said the spirit, "I will do you no harm but will reward you richly.
