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"Oh, sir!" returned Miriam, looking up artlessly in his face, "I am too young to listen to words like these." "You are a woman, Miriam," replied Burton, earnestly "a lovely woman, with a heart overflowing with pure affections. Deeply have you interested my feelings from the first; and now I ask you to be mine.
"I'd like to know what you're thinking of, tramping around on the mountain alone," he said, frowning at her. "I have been thinking of you, most of the time, and wishing you could be with me," she answered, so artlessly as to mollify him instantly. "I ought to row you like smoke, but when you say things like that, I can't. Don't you know you oughtn't to go projecting around in the woods all alone?"
His face never changed, except, perhaps, to an even more amused benignity of expression. "You have lived very fast by that account," he remarked artlessly. "Is it possible now? Well, life, as you know, can't last forever; and, indeed, taking a better look at you in this poor light, you do seem to be very near death."
And with that, having, in his nature that, dose; of poetry which saves even a simpleton from being a fool. "He became an artlessly, unconditionally devoted slave. He was rewarded by being smiled on and in time admitted to the intimacy of the house. It may be that the unsophisticated young barbarian amused the exquisite lady.
I don't know what to make of it. It worries me to get such a thing. What do you suppose it was sent to me for? Who could have sent it?" She was leaning forward artlessly on her crossed knee looking expectantly up into Garrick's face, oblivious to everything else, even her own enticing beauty.
Not that she wished me to leave her; it was for my own good she said it, and she should be delighting in the thoughts of the good it would do me, and should find abundance to cheer her in my absence, in the care of our darling child. She said all this so openly, so artlessly, that I believed her.
"You must have some reason for refusing." He too arose. "No no particular reason," she answered, artlessly walking around the table, apparently to pick up a button from the floor, but actually to avoid his contact. "I just don't wish to to be married now here that's all. I ask you to keep your promise not to ask it while we remain." He had feared to lose her a score of times before.
After putting everything in order, she closes the door because the wind is high, and in her anxiety not to lose one word of what I have to say, she entreats artlessly a little place near me. I cannot refuse her, for I feel almost lifeless.
Can it be that God reserves such trials, such cruel tests, for those of his creatures who are to sit on the morrow of their death at his right hand?" said the good Alain, quite unconscious that he was artlessly expressing the whole doctrine of Swedenborg on the angels. "And you tell me," said Godefroid, "that in prison Madame de la Chanterie was put with "
I wanted to rush into the Nation and pick you up and wipe the anger off you, and carry you out of it all into some quiet beautiful place." "But one has to answer these people," said Mr. Britling, rolling along by the side of her like a full moon beside Venus, and quite artlessly falling in with the tone of her. She repeated lines from "The Silent Places" from memory.
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