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to treat with extra kindness or tolerance
- They were very bitter tears; everybody in the world seemed so hard and unkind to Maggie; there was no indulgence, no fondness, such as she imagined when she fashioned the world afresh in her own thoughts.3.5 -- Book 3 Chapter 5 -- Tom Applies His Knife to the Oyster (94% in)
- She murmured a little that Mr. Tulliver so peremptorily refused to receive anything in repayment from Mr. and Mrs. Moss; but to all his requirements of household economy she was submissive to the point of denying herself the cheapest indulgences of mere flavor; her only rebellion was to smuggle into the kitchen something that would make rather a better supper than usual for Tom.4.2 -- Book 4 Chapter 2 -- The Torn Nest Is Pierced by the Thorns (71% in)
- It was far on in June now, and Maggie was inclined to lengthen the daily walk which was her one indulgence; but this day and the following she was so busy with work which must be finished that she never went beyond the gate, and satisfied her need of the open air by sitting out of doors.5.1 -- Book 5 Chapter 1 -- In the Red Deeps (10% in)
- In this June time, too, the dog-roses were in their glory, and that was an additional reason why Maggie should direct her walk to the Red Deeps, rather than to any other spot, on the first day she was free to wander at her will,—a pleasure she loved so well, that sometimes, in her ardors of renunciation, she thought she ought to deny herself the frequent indulgence in it.5.1 -- Book 5 Chapter 1 -- In the Red Deeps (19% in)
- Philip had never been soothed by that mother's love which flows out to us in the greater abundance because our need is greater, which clings to us the more tenderly because we are the less likely to be winners in the game of life; and the sense of his father's affection and indulgence toward him was marred by the keener perception of his father's faults.5.3 -- Book 5 Chapter 3 -- The Wavering Balance (95% in)
- People will always encourage themselves in misdemeanors by the certainty that you will be indulgent.6.7 -- Book 6 Chapter 7 -- Philip Re-enters (17% in)
- He liked to remind himself and his son too that his fatherly indulgence had provided the accommodation.6.8 -- Book 6 Chapter 8 -- Wakem in a New Light (10% in)
- "And this is the return you make me for all the indulgences I've heaped on you?" said Wakem, getting white, and beginning to tremble under an enraged sense of impotence before Philip's calm defiance and concentration of purpose.6.8 -- Book 6 Chapter 8 -- Wakem in a New Light (29% in)
- You have been an indulgent father to me; but I have always felt that it was because you had an affectionate wish to give me as much happiness as my unfortunate lot would admit, not that it was a debt you expected me to pay by sacrificing all my chances of happiness to satisfy feelings of yours which I can never share.6.8 -- Book 6 Chapter 8 -- Wakem in a New Light (30% in)
- It is clear to you, I hope, that Stephen was not a hypocrite,—capable of deliberate doubleness for a selfish end; and yet his fluctuations between the indulgence of a feeling and the systematic concealment of it might have made a good case in support of Philip's accusation.6.9 -- Book 6 Chapter 9 -- Charity in Full-Dress (53% in)
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