Crossword-Solution: REFUSALS 8 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

There are things most necessary to be done, the perpetrator of which we neither love nor honour; and there may be refusals to serve us, which shall rather exalt in our estimation those who deny our request.

Your word had such weight with me!” “How many times more would you have wished to be refused, and how many refusals would have been required to give me my liberty?” asked Bernard.

And, Stephen, you have not yet spoken to papa about our engagement?” “No,” he said regretfully, “I could not find him directly; and then I went on thinking so much of what you said about objections, refusals—bitter words possibly—ending our happiness, that I resolved to put it off till to-morrow; that gives us one more day of delight—delight of a tremulous kind.” “Yes; but it would be improper to be silent too long, I think,” she said in a delicate voice, which implied that her face had grown warm.

People sneered at me, and replied (when they deigned to reply at all) that ‘there was no business doing, and they had all the help they wanted.’ My evident inexperience was probably the cause of many of these refusals, as well as my attire, for I still had the appearance of being a rich woman.

The cause of a delay calculated to be particularly exasperating to an ardent lover was a series of strikes, that is to say, concerted refusals to work on the part of the brick-layers, masons, carpenters, painters, plumbers, and other trades concerned in house building.