It is, I suppose, hardly natural to man to feel actual unkindness towards a young and beautiful girl who has given no personal offence.

But she seemed to do it more in the sharp exercise of her official functions, than with any deliberate unkindness.

Here she pondered for a short time upon the doubtful unkindness of fate which had deprived her of a husband whom she despised, and of a home which his presence had made insupportable.

Upon it, an entirely baseless romance has been built of disappointed love and parental unkindness.

A real debt of gratitudethat is, founded on a disinterested act of kindnesscannot be cancelled by any subsequent unkindness on the part of our benefactor.

He acknowledged it but claimed forgiveness on the grounds of love, his love for her which had been goaded to mad jealousy by her thoughtless unkindness, her love for him which would not desert him no matter what he did.

Laxity which leaves us to quarrel and torment each other, tenderness which encourages disorder and disobedience till they must be put down perforce, is ultimate unkindness.

His unjust unkindness, that in all reason should have quenched her love, has, like an impediment in the current, made it more unruly, and Mariana loves her cruel husband with the full continuance of her first affection."