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Then came Prince Korchagin, with his thick lips, apoplectic neck, and a travelling cap on his head; behind him Missy, her cousin Misha, and an acquaintance of Nekhludoff's the long-necked diplomat Osten, with his protruding Adam's apple and his unvarying merry mood and expression. He was saying something very emphatically, though jokingly, to the smiling Missy.
But a title, and an estate, and an income, are matters which will weigh in the balance with all Eve's daughters as they do with all Adam's sons. Pride of place, and the power of living well in front of the world's eye, are dear to us all; are, doubtless, intended to be dear. Only in acknowledging so much, let us remember that there are prices at which these good things may be too costly.
One of the latter had long been the scene of Adam's happiest hours, for he used to sit in it when he played chess with Costa. He had sometimes looked on at the noble game while in Nuremberg; but the doctor understood it thoroughly, and had initiated him into all its rules.
Adam's enthusiasm lay in these things; and our love is inwrought in our enthusiasm as electricity is inwrought in the air, exalting its power by a subtle presence.
But when Adam's heavy tread had died away, when she was all alone, she behaved rather strangely for one so free of care, and happy-hearted. Something bright and glistening splashed upon the paper before her, the pencil slipped from her fingers, and, with a sudden, choking cry, she swayed forward, and hid her face in her hands. In which Adam proposes a game "To be, or not to be!"
The priest took the handsome lad by the chin, bent his head back, looked Adam also in the face, and exclaimed: "His mouth, nose and eyes he has inherited from your wife, but the shape of the brow and head is exactly like yours." A faint flush suffused Adam's cheeks, and turning quickly to the boy as if he had heard enough, he cried: "You are late. Where have you been so long?"
How is old Adam's grandson? Debutantes still after you, eh? In person RICHARD CARAMEL is short and fair he is to be bald at thirty-five. He has yellowish eyes one of them startlingly clear, the other opaque as a muddy pool and a bulging brow like a funny-paper baby.
Mankind have gone through life sorrowing; and "death hath reigned even over those, who have not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression." Neither have discriminations been made in favor of the saints, but they have been involved in the general calamity, and groaned with the rest of the creation.
The tune was one which he hated; the colors he hated also; the marchers, all but one, he had never liked. There was Newton Towne, with a sergeant's stripe on his blue sleeve; there was Edward Green, a captain; there was Peter Allinson, a color-bearer. At their head, taller, handsomer, dearer than ever to Adam's jealous eyes, walked Henry Foust. In an instant of forgetfulness Adam waved his hand.
It was not till now that Adam's simple mind comprehended the true cause of Anne's alarm, which Sibyll still conjectured not, but stood trembling by her friend's side, and close to her father.
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