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"Doc," said Pale Face Harry, and he shuffled his feet and looked down, "Doc, I got something I've been wanting to say to you for a week." Madison still gazed at him apathetically Pale Face Harry for the moment was as some unwarrantable apparition suddenly appearing before him.
Truly and beautifully has Sir Thomas Browne said, "There is no felicity in what the world adores: that wherein God himself is happy, the holy angels are happy, and in whose defect the devils are unhappy that dare I call happiness; whatsoever else the world terms happiness, is to me an apparition or neat delusion, wherein there is no more of happiness than the name."
The apparition appears to have a thumb in the corner of its mouth while making this complaint. 'You give me an affectionate reception, Pussy, I must say. 'Well, I will in a minute, Eddy, but I can't just yet. 'I am unable to reply that I am much the better for seeing you, Pussy, inasmuch as I see nothing of you.
Not till later did I learn that the name of this apparition was Jones; but even if I had known it then, no resulting disillusion could have marred the adventurous romance of the voyage which was now awaiting me. It was a voyage of astonishing and, to me, wholly novel beauty.
During the decisive moments of life, when one's entire future depends upon a word, or a gesture, twenty contradictory inspirations can traverse the mind in the time occupied by a flash of lightning. On the sudden apparition of the young Marquis de Sairmeuse, Maurice d'Escorval's first thought was this: "How long has he been there? Has he been playing the spy? Has he been listening to us?
In spite of the apparition of her mother, all this had passed through her mind. Not the less, however, was she obliged to answer her mother, before she could give any reply to the other questioner. In the meantime Mrs Dobbs Broughton had untucked her feet. "Mamma," said Clara, "who ever expected to see you here?" "I daresay nobody did," said Mrs Van Siever; "but here I am, nevertheless."
'O! IT IS so ridiculous! says the apparition, stopping and shrinking. 'Don't, Eddy! 'Don't what, Rosa? 'Don't come any nearer, please. It IS so absurd. 'What is absurd, Rosa? 'The whole thing is. It IS so absurd to be an engaged orphan and it IS so absurd to have the girls and the servants scuttling about after one, like mice in the wainscot; and it IS so absurd to be called upon!
A presbyter or a layman ruled the ordinary monastery, including the bishop or bishops whom the monastery possessed. I have dwelt upon this because it is a point often lost sight of, and it explains a good deal. And there is a good deal to explain. When Columbanus and his twelve companions from Ireland burst suddenly upon Gaul in the year 590, they formed a very strange apparition.
Her apparition, doubtless, indicated my impending death! His officers tried to dissuade him from this belief, but he adhered to his conviction, and left the palace that very night in order to establish his headquarters at the 'Fantaisie, the king's little villa near the city. General d'Espagne, however, was unable to overcome his horror.
Then Vera herself unexpectedly appeared amongst the guests, wearing a warm mantilla over her light dress and a wrap round her throat. Raisky was so astonished that he looked at her as if she were an apparition. A few hours ago she had been almost too exhausted to speak, and now here she was in person. He wondered where women found their strength.
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