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I ought to be admiring you for your generosity your charity." "It's neither the one nor the other," said he with exasperating deliberateness. She quivered. "Then what is it?" she cried. "You are driving me crazy with your evasions." Pleadingly, "You must admit they are evasions." He buttoned his coat in tranquil preparation to depart. She instantly took alarm. "I don't mean that.
The philosophers taught in their schools, they taught a few admiring pupils; but the sphere of their teachings was limited, and also the number whom they could address. The pulpit became an institution. All the Christians were required to assemble regularly for public instruction as well as worship.
Yet the charm of his conversation, the brilliancy of his intellect kept him always well-friended. And the fortune which favors fools watched over his closing years, and sent the admiring Graf Kalkreuth, an intellectual Silesian nobleman, to dig him out of miserable lodgings, and instal him in his own castle near Freistadt.
She made conversation pleasantly, praising the cats, admiring the birds, touching lightly on the general subject of domestic pets, until her woman's sixth sense told her that her host's panic had passed, and that she might now proceed to discuss business. "I hope you don't mind my coming to you, Mr. Jarvis," she said.
As for the housekeeper, she remained in the middle of the room with folded arms, and looked down on the struggle with a singular expression of countenance. There was no agitation whatever, but a sort of thoughtful examination, half cynical, half admiring. However, as soon as the boy's sobs reached her ear she wakened up, and said, tenderly, "What is the child crying for?
As he appeared through the morning mist, Brown, accustomed to judge of men by their thewes and sinews, could not help admiring his height, the breadth of his shoulders, and the steady firmness of his step. Dinmont internally paid the same compliment to Brown, whose athletic form he now perused somewhat more at leisure than he had done formerly.
After this they treated us with much greater respect even than before, evidently admiring the prowess which had enabled us to overcome so many of the few enemies with whom they have to contend. We immediately set to work to remove the lining of the ship, the bulkheads, and such other woodwork as we thought would prove useful to us in building our house.
Do I not see him at the theatre gazing at the finely-dressed ladies and admiring their bare arms and shoulders?" "What!" exclaimed Hofer. "Is it true, then, that the women here appear in public with bare arms and shoulders?" "Yes, sir, it is," sobbed the young wife.
He ordered the best of feed and attention for her roan bills to be rendered to himself and hastening off to the jeweler's, found his pin ready and reposing in a small blue box. Avoiding a number of admiring friends, he slipped around a corner, and once more appeared at Mrs. Dick's. Beth was in the dining-room, alone. Her papers were spread upon the table.
"Good for you, Lafe!" commended Blake. It was the first time that he had ever addressed Ashton so familiarly. He accompanied it with the proffer of his hand. But Ashton did not look at him. He was basking in the frankly admiring gaze of Miss Knowles. The party returned in the same manner that they had come out, for Isobel firmly refused to permit Ashton to walk.
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