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He had been a fool, he told himself, as he stood in the darkened room and gazed at the wonderful little mite of life which was the fruit of his love.

After all, however, he told himself that he was not deceiving her, for the disease he had was quite as serious as tuberculosis.

Sometimes he had guilty feelings because of all the lying he had had to do; but he told himself that it was for Henriette's sake.

And that, he told himself, was why he yielded to the shameful temptation the night of that fatal supper party.

He was really getting quite mad about Henriette, he told himself.

But that passed in time, and he told himself that he passed with it.

He told himself that it had been planned beforehand and carried out in hard-headed commercial American fashion as a matter of business.

As he threw the stones into the water he told himself that it must be so with him always.

He told himself that he would do the latter.

Yonder goes the spirit of the age," he told himself, with sardonic twisting of his lips.

I must continue to blame it all on the nice old ladies," he told himself, smiling at the shamed zest he was finding in this hunt.

The girl was right--he was a fool, he told himself angrily; and sulked for hours.

There was nothing now to balk his progress, he told himself.

Ramon, he told himself while he made his way down the arroyo side, was at least working out a clever scheme of his own, and it rested with Luck and his posse to see that Ramon was cheated of success.

He could not, he told himself, afford to wait around any longer for luck.

You'd think, he told himself aggrievedly, that he was the one that had been acting up!

She will have risen now," he told himself.

Naomi," he told himself in a whisper of awe.

She will be waking soon," he told himself.

There was no need that he should accede to that silly request, he told himself.

He told himself that he would not go had it not been for a promise given to an old college friend months before.

Still he was not really worried about William and Cyril, he told himself.

He told himself that it was unmanly, unkind, and unreasonable; and he vowed that he would overcome it.

He told himself, too, that it would not be a hard one; that he loved Billy dearly, and that he would try to make her happy.

He told himself he wouldn't want it otherwise.

If he had to do with strangers, he told himself, he could take up his case and fight for it.

Human love was a wonderful thing, he told himself, and it was most wonderful where it had least to gain.

Now he told himself he had always known Enid would come back; and she had come on that afternoon when she entered his drug-smelling room and let in the sunlight.

Approaching the house on that clear, frosty autumn evening, crossing the lawn strewn with crackling dry leaves, he told himself that he must not hope to find things the same.

I'm a chump," he told himself, with deep disgust.

Time to get up, Steve," he told himself, and forthwith did.

That'll hold them for a minute or two," he told himself.

He hadn't made a very good beginning, he told himself, but Mr. Whipple irritated him intensely.

He had won the first trick, he told himself, and the thought was pleasurable.

He could not, he told himself grimly, get one speck wetter.

I will her among the bushes on the hillside that looks down into the fruitful valley," he told himself.

There is something about it to avoid, like giving yourself up to digging in the dirt under the ground," he told himself.

I will have father's body moved," he told himself.

She has fed me and now I will begin to feed her," he told himself.

I'll go to the good looking woman at the settlement house," he told himself.

How often had he told himself that, with all that Fortune had given him, still Fortune had been unjust to him because he had been robbed of that.

But as he dressed he told himself that, as a man, he ought to be able to do a plain duty, marked out for him as this had been by his own judgment, without regard to personal suffering.

He told himself that he did not care how the elections might go;--that he did not care much how anything might go.

As he thought of this, however, he told himself that he would not sell himself for money and magnificence.

He kept on regretting his folly bitterly; and though he told himself that it was absurd to regret for what had happened was inevitable just because it had happened, he could not help himself.

He told himself that he must do that in common decency; he could not leave her by herself in a strange house.

It was horrible to display himself to the passers-by, and though he told himself it was foolish to give way to such a feeling he turned his back to the street.

It made Philip impatient, but he told himself that he must be considerate to her; he was bound to make allowance.

She has no finesse yet," he told himself.

I do wonder where they're staying, though," he told himself.

If he had to part with his Lizzie, he told himself in the returning train, it could be to no better keeper than this.

It's never any use trying to join things on again," he told himself.

It was very theatrical of me," he told himself later.

And that trip to New Haven would bridge over the time nicely till school opens," he told himself.

They think I want to beg of them, I suppose," he told himself.

It must be so," he told himself, whenever the doubts suggested by Jess arose in his mind to trouble him.

But just wait till I'm a little older," he told himself.

In a great many essentials, he told himself, he had become Chinese in sympathy and fiber.

It was hard, he told himself again, walking down Orange Street, past the Custom House to Derby.

On the purely feminine side she was a constant delight, the last possible refinement, he told himself, of instinct and effect.

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