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Then her arms closed about his neck with a swift little rushing, and he still half-doubting, still curious felt himself strained to her. Still more closely she clung, putting out with her intensity all his misgiving. She sought his lips with her own eager, pressing. "Kiss me kiss me kiss me! Oh, it's all true all true! My best-loved dream has come all true! I have rested so in your arms.
He asked for free and full development of the soul of man. "The cry of Ajax was for light," was one of his best-loved quotations. He welcomed the researches of scholarship in the foundations of religion, as he did of science in the material world, and of philosophy in the things of the mind.
At thirteen I said good-bye to the pleasant Grange, and went, as my elder brothers, my father, and my grandfather had done before me, to Harrow. In the Harrow of the "seventies" there was one unique personality, that of the Rev. John Smith, best-loved of men. This saintly man was certainly very eccentric.
The Senator was saddle-sore as well as hungry, and his temper showed in his blood-shot eyes. He would have quarrelled with his best-loved woman that morning, and he began on Swan. Why hadn't he come back down the gulch yesterday and helped track the girl, as he was told to do?
"I was just an ugly little doll, the happiest, best-loved little doll in all the world, and with the dearest little mother. But here we are, and you shall see for yourself what a snug home I had."
Four years later that 'great and dear spirit, Coleridge, passed away after long suffering. The blow to Lamb was stunning in its severity; and the loss of this earliest and best-loved friend possibly accelerated his own decease. Towards the close of the year a fall while walking caused a trifling wound.
He had managed to discover in his first visit to the gardens that the windows overlooking the Fountain Garden were those which belonged to the Prince's own suite of rooms. Those which opened on to the balcony lighted his favorite apartment, which contained his best-loved books and pictures and in which he spent most of his secluded leisure hours. Marco watched these windows anxiously.
Without making any ado, she proposed to get there in the shortest possible time; and, in the shortest possible time, by sheer concentration and hard work, she achieved her desire. Before Roy left England, before her best-loved brother a man of brilliant promise had finished learning to fly, she was driving her car in Belgium, besieged in Antwerp, doing and enduring terrible things ...
I have the feeling that I spoke the words, but you are the lecture itself." What a smile she gave me! "Yes, I know about the hard knocks," she said. "I have been in pain most of my life. But I have learned all that I know sitting in this chair. I have learned to be patient and kind and loving and brave." They told me this crippled woman was the sweetest-spirited, best-loved person in the town.
Her belief was that Sir Godfrey would not permit any message to be sent, and that if he did, King Edward would not allow the Duke, who was his vassal, to obey it. To the least hint that the Duke might or could himself decline, she refused to listen so decidedly that no one had the heart to repeat it. More plaintive, day by day, grew the dying mother's yearning moans for her best-loved child.
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