He said to himself that he cordially liked and admired Miss Hargrove, but he believed that she had enjoyed not a few flirtations, and was not averse to the addition of another to the list.
In this effort he was obliged to admit to himself that he failed signally.
Oh, he would be faithful, he would be magnanimous, and he also admitted to himself that he would be very glad and grateful; but he would be very patient, perhaps a little too much so to suit her.
Hector said to himself that in the interest of his designs, perhaps it was well that Bertha was acting as she did.
His own life was at stake; for he had sworn to himself that he would not survive the ruin of Laurence in being forced to confess in full court her dishonor and her love for Hector.
He said to himself that, in order to assure his vengeance, he must wait--and he swore that he would wait.
He did not think, when he came, that he should have this reluctance; he had said to himself that he would go in and explain himself.
Nevertheless, Mr Broune knew of himself that he was not a marrying man.
But he had declared of himself that he had been born in England, and that he was an Englishman.
Paul declared to himself that he had money, though doubtful money, and that he certainly would not give up Henrietta on that score.
He was so true to himself that he did not understand that there should be with her even that violet-coloured tinge of prevarication which women assume as an additional charm.
He was able to say to himself that he had been justly cut off from kindness which he knew how to value in losing it.
He said to himself that if she had assented cordially to the conditions of Fulkerson's offer, he would have had the courage to take all the other risks himself, and would have had the satisfaction of resigning his place.
If Van Berg had given thought to himself that evening as he did to Ida Mayhew he might have discovered some rather odd phenomena in his varying mental states.
He admitted to himself that he had never before been so thoroughly fascinated and awakened; and it was in accordance with his pleasure-loving, self-indulgent nature to drift on this shining tide withersoever it might carry him.
Even Van berg, who made it his business to discover and study beauty, was soon compelled to admit to himself that he had never seen finer features than were possessed by this fair young stranger.
And yet he was compelled to admit to himself that he did not lover her as he supposed he would love the woman he hoped to make his wife.
She must be disappointed, and he would prove to himself that he was yet strong enough to resist, that he had not so lost self-control that his only safety lay in flight.
When Lydia sat through an hour with her face hidden in her hands, he knew that the day had been very dark and weary with her, but said in himself that a sister's love was little compared with such as his.
And he vowed to himself that he would devote himself, heart and soul, to his work, and there find, if not forgetfulness, at least peace.
He said to himself that it would be a mean thing to abuse the attachment of this pure and trustful girl, to separate her from her family, and to ruin her forever.
Among them was Bainton, who, when he had peered into the white silence of the church and had seen for himself that it was indeed his master who was praying there beside his Bishop, made no pretence to hide his emotion.
Does he whisper her name away on a false rumour, and accuse her of running after him for his title, while all the time he knows it is he himself that is running after her money?
Two hearts that have once become as one cannot be separated," he said to himself that night, as he resolved that it was his duty to write to her, unconditionally returning to her her pledges.
This, when at last he had succeeded in writing it, he read over and over again; but on each occasion he said to himself that it was cold and passionless, stilted and unmeaning.
Herbert, when he got on to his horse to ride home, was forced to acknowledge to himself that no good whatever had come from his visit to Hap House.
Now at last he arose and shook himself, and promised to himself that he would be a man.
In spite of a somewhat natural embarrassment, Austen could not but acknowledge to himself that Mr. Meader was right.
It was some time before Austen came upon the object of his search--though scarce admitting to himself that it had an object.
But as he sat in the train he said to himself that in this visit to the hamlet of Coniston he had had the strangest glimpse of all.
Is that monster, whom you call God, beautiful--the giant who for ever regenerates himself that he may devour himself again?
He considered the reflection with anxious observation, and when he seated himself in his litter to be borne to the house of his friend Katuti, he said to himself that he still might claim to be called a handsome man.
Walter stood looking on it all awhile, holding on by a stay-rope, and saying to himself that it was well that they were driving so fast toward new things.
At that moment Mr. Arnot admitted to himself that he had never been asked so embarrassing a question in all his life.
Haldane's expressions of sympathy were hollow, indeed, for he hoped that, as a result of her indisposition, he would have Laura all to himself that evening.
He was compelled to admit to himself thathe loved her already, and that his boyhood's passion had only changed as he had changed, and had become the strong and abiding sentiment of the man.
Now the king had two sons, one of whom he had appointed in himself that he would marry her withal, and the other purposed in himself that he would take her.
If his visit was prompt it was because he had been separated so long from the part of himself that alone he now valued.
And he was afterwards to say to himself that he must have spoken with odious impatience, such an impatience as to show that, supremely disconcerted, he washed his hands of the whole question.
He professed to himself that he had no doubt that she was married and lost to him for ever.
He owned to himself that it was a harder task than he had thought to bring back to life one whose veins the frost of despair has chilled.
He could not deny to himself that, instead of becoming more cheerful, she was relapsing into a more and more settled melancholy.
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