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Once before the arrival of my fair friend and once after. She consented, with angelic resignation, to immolate her dignity to the servile necessities of my position. After the second visit I was left free. It was then close on midnight. Up to that time there was nothing in the behavior of the mad Englishman to reward Mrs. Fairbank and the doctor for presenting themselves at his bedside.
It is another of those works of that divine artist, on which we gaze and gaze with a never-tiring enjoyment of its angelic beauty. To my eye it is faultless; I could not wish a single outline of form, a single shade of color changed.
She did not see her way out of this falsehood, but she couldn't say yes. Silence followed. "Whom do " "I wish to see M. Honoré Grandissime." "That is my name, madame." "Ah!" with an angelic smile; she had collected her wits now, and was ready for war. "You are not one of his clerks?"
She gently took his hand, and said: "Have patience!" "Speak on!" he muttered, hoarsely. "Monsieur," she continued, with her smile of angelic charity, "God be praised, you are quite young; in our society men situated as you are do not marry early, and I think they are right. Well, then, this is what I wish to do, if you will allow me to tell you.
Mediaeval and other theologians preferred to regard them as angelic or diabolic manifestations, made out of compressed air, or by aid of bodies of the dead, or begotten by the action of angel or devil on the substance of the brain.
He was a wild kind of orator, striking fear to the soul, dipping it in the fumes of damnation, lifting it thence to the joys of heaven. Terrible, electrical preaching! It was the product of uncultured genius and human disappointment. Marion sat in awe, hardly knowing whether it was impious or angelic.
"And now come for a walk on the beach, and we will forget all these worries." Next morning the Colonel appeared at breakfast in a perfectly angelic frame of mind, having to all appearance utterly forgotten the "contretemps" of the previous afternoon. Perhaps this was policy, or perhaps the fact of his having won several hundred pounds the night before mollified his mood.
Simple and earnest people, however, being accustomed to speak from their genuine impulses, cannot easily, as craftier men do, avoid the subject which they have at heart. As often as the sculptor unclosed his lips, such words as these were ready to burst out: "Hilda, have you flung your angelic purity into that mass of unspeakable corruption, the Roman Church?"
"Dick," she said, with adorable shyness, "it is not yet to-morrow." He strained her to his breast. Their lips met again rapturously. "Oh, my sweet," he said, "has ever man received more angelic answer to a question that filled his heart with longing throughout many days?" "Yet you are leaving me, and of your own accord." "Irene you, too, are proud. Would you have me return now?" "No.
But every thing must have an end. A motion made by this angelic youth, in the listlessness of goingoff sleep, replaced his shirt and the bed clothes in a posture that shut up that treasury from longer view.
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