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In this atmosphere of flattery, oppressive as with the heavy odor of incense, she experienced a sensation of omnipotence, the intoxication of that power with which Vaudrey was invested, whose envied reflection was cast on her by that simple aside spoken in the midst of the crowd. She was delighted and exceedingly proud. She almost forgot that her visit had been made on Rosas's account.
Jane was pulling up the ferns and wild flowers, and as they drooped in her hand threw them aside and gathered fresh ones until there were no more in her reach; then her eye becoming attracted by some rich, green mosses, she gathered them, when among the black earth from which they were taken something gleamed bright and distinct from everything around it.
We've got work to do here, though, and we are going to do it." "Are you union men?" "Not so you'd notice it," was the cool reply. "All right. You fellows won't be here long." "Stop us if you can. Now, stand aside!" commanded the stranger menacingly. "Let 'em by, men," cried Morrissy. "Don't touch 'em yet. You just leave it to me. I know a way and a good one, too. You just leave it to me."
He turned aside to hide the tears which all the pride of his nature could not restrain, and which, instead of relieving, added to his anguish. At length he resumed, "No, Ellen, we must part now and forever. Your life will be long and happy. Mine will be short, but not altogether wretched, nor shorter than if we had never met.
And the creepers were pushed aside by one who knew the method of their growth. A silver glory of moonlight fell on the verandah floor, and the man of whom she was thinking stood before her. "You!" she exclaimed. "Yes." She rose, and they shook hands. They stood looking at each other for a few moments, and a thousand things that had never been said seemed to be understood between them.
When she opened them again she was on a warm grassy bank with Amy chafing one hand, Grace the other, while Betty was busy unfastening the clothes about her waist. As Mollie was never under any circumstances expected to act as people thought she should act, so this occasion was no exception to the rule. She pushed Amy and Grace aside, glared at Betty, and sat up with a little jerk.
Some of his officers thought it would be better to avoid a re-encounter with so large a body of the insurgents for there were about twenty thousand on the field and recommended that the king's party should turn aside, and go home another way; but the king said "No; he preferred to speak to them." He would go, he said, and ascertain what it was that they wanted more.
He knew that many dull men really believed themselves to be intelligent, but that was a comparatively harmless mistake, and he had never observed that a woman thought less of a man who thought well of himself. Aside from this surface weakness William Pressley was a most worthy young fellow; far more worthy to be Ruth's husband than any one else in that rough and thinly settled country.
Bareheaded his hat was in his hand as he jested with Ursula de Vesc, and in the stress of the surprise he had flung it aside La Mothe crouched low in the saddle, the reins gathered into his left hand so that he and Grey Roland alike were just conscious of the bit in the sensitive mouth.
Oh, laugh! but I can't laugh I sit here foaming at the lips, and crying! And suppose he's lost his position, and does this every day! Now every day I must lay aside what I am doing and sit and shudder when I hear him coming up the steps and wait for him to begin this! I tell you, I demand to be free I demand it! I want nothing in this world but to be let alone. I don't want anybody to wait on me.
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