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However, as I say, I did not think about it, I was content to breathe the invigorating air of peace and serenity in which my spirit seemed to float on wings. I slept like a child who is only tired out with play and pleasure, I woke like a child to whom the world is all new and brimful of beauty.
Eagerly, with an ardour to show themselves intimate with the affairs of towns, as is the way of rustics, they related to me what already I had gathered to be the vulgar version of Fifanti's death. Each spoke in turn, cutting in the moment another paused to breathe, and sometimes they spoke together, each anxious to have the extent of his information revealed and appreciated.
Englishmen sometimes forget that there are worse evils than open war, both in political and industrial relations, and that the political causes for which their fathers fought and died have still to be carried to victory on the Continent. Nationality and their national institutions are the very life-blood of English people. They are as natural to them as the air they breathe.
He replied that he did not know, but that I might do well to inquire of the lady Merapi. "So you have changed your mind, and also think her a witch," I said, to which he answered: "One must breathe the wind that blows, and Egypt is so full of witchcraft that it is difficult to say. Also it was she and no other who destroyed the ancient statue of Amon.
I know you too well even to breathe a word upon the subject." "Ah! if you would only let me do it," said D'Artagnan, "what a dance we would give his most gracious majesty!" "Still he is the king; do not forget that, my dear friend."
It would take twenty years to complete, it would cost twenty thousand pounds or more, and it would breathe into mathematics the new, vivid life that Bergson's works have breathed into metaphysics. The Professor thought very kindly of the dead cousin, whose money would provide for this great work. He wished greatly the dead man could know to what high use his fortune was designed.
He said that the weather was too calm, and appeared to excite himself, as if he would drive away some care that weighed upon him. But he had nothing to do but be carried serenely in the midst of serene things; only to breathe and let himself live. On looking out, only the deep gray masses around could be seen; on listening, only silence.
"Oh, certainly, certainly, take it if you like; but the rooms are so small, and I never can breathe in a small room. Those in the large house are just the right size, and not at all gloomy in my eyes; but of course do as you please. I rather wonder at your choice, however." "Well, then, what do you say to the new house on the hill?
Not a bit the better for dressing so fine; many a rogue in a gold lace hat." Cecilia begged to know what apartments he could spare for her. "Take you up stairs," cried he, "shew you a place for a queen." He then led her up stairs, and took her to a room entirely dark, and so close for want of air that she could hardly breathe in it.
My soul is broken: the sweet air pours in through the windows of my wounds: I breathe again, I have found Thee once more, O Life!..." "I have found thee again.... Hold thy peace, and listen." And like the murmuring of a spring, Christophe heard the song of life bubbling up in him.
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