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And again for the hundredth time Elizabeth said to herself, in mingled pain and exasperation 'What did she mean? and what have I ever done that she should behave so? Then she raised her eyes. Something impelled her as it were a strong telepathic influence. The Squire was gazing at her. His expression was extraordinarily animated.
Now that I had settled a plan I was eager to put it into practice hot and wild indeed with the impatience and hope of the castaway animated with the dream of recovering his liberty and preserving his life; and I was the more anxious to set about the business at once, on account of the weather being fair and still, for if it came on to blow a stormy wind again we should be forced as before under hatches.
I have always said that the English are not really a phlegmatic or a taciturn nation if you stir them out of their groove. No one could have talked in a more animated way than this colonel. Lady Jane put her hands over her ears. "Come, come, Colonel Berkeley," said Lord Dacre, sternly, "you forget yourself. There is a lady in the room." The colonel gave a stiff bow.
There stood the cavalier-like old composer, who had done much for Kitty, in his most characteristic attitude, before the hearth. Mme. Simon sat at the tea-table. B , the historian, and H , the philologist, stood in animated discussion behind the piano, while Mme. H was tying on the bonnet of her lovely little daughter.
The samovar shortened our visages and filled our stomachs with tea. We retired to rest upon sofas and did not rise until a late hour. It happened to be New Year's, and the fashionable society of Kazan was doing its congratulations. I drove through the principal part of the city and found an animated scene.
He had cut himself off from her world he saw now the folly of his ever for a moment having been drawn into it. It must be a chapter closed. The weeks passed on, and his loneliness grew. One day the opening of still another branch brought him for a moment into contact with Mary Scott. She too was looking pale, but her manner was bright, even animated.
She found herself whirled in their midst to the old ball-room, and the rest of the morning was spent in eager and animated discussion. This magnificent old room was apart from the rest of the house.
The marques was animated by the idea of regaining this fortress for his sovereigns and wresting from the old Moorish king this boasted trophy of his prowess.
But as the illusions, pushed always westward, vanished in the light of common day, lo! a continent gradually emerged, with millions of people animated by conquering ambition of progress in freedom; an industrial continent, covered with a network of steel, heated by steam, and lighted by electricity. What a spectacle of youth on a grand scale is this!
Americans have not failed to observe, that, of the hundreds of writers who come over, only a few of the most prominent of whom we have mentioned above, not one in fifty is animated by a sincere impulse of honest good-will. They have learned to mistrust them all, as triflers with our reputation, if not predetermined calumniators.
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