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The petty annoyance, instead of being thrown from us, sits down beside us and becomes a sorrow, and the little offense is brooded over till, in the hot-bed of rumination, it grows into a great injury, under whose poisonous shadow springs up hatred and revenge. Swearing relieves the feelings that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her.
How much better it had been for him to hold fast his repentant mood, and awake to tell everything! but he was very far from having even approached any such resolution. Indeed no practical idea of his, however much brooded over at night, had ever lived to bear fruit in the morning; not once had he ever embodied in action an impulse toward atonement!
But the butler brooded over the scene of the calamity in hopeless despair; and you perceived that it would be necessary for him deeply to infringe upon his master's stores of cordial before his former serenity might be regained. It was now after eleven, and Roseton's carriage waited.
"Will you go if I do that is, if she really asks us?" I expected him to flash out a refusal, but he brooded under a deep shadow of eyelashes for a while, looking half cross, half mischievous, and finally said: "I'll think it over." A Man from the Dark "Desperate, proud, fond, sick, . . . rejected by men."
"He drew on me," snarled McKee. "It wasn't Dick's money, but you'll get half. Shut up." The burning sun rose higher and higher. The buzzard dropped lower in the sky. The silence of death brooded over the railroad-station. Hoover Bows to Hymen Unknown to Bud Lane and Buck McKee, who were rioting in Florence, Jack Payson had hurried up the wedding.
West, of course, knew better than that. The remark confirmed his belief that Queed had brooded over the reformatory till he saw everything about it distorted and magnified. "Well, old fellow," he said, without a trace of ill-humor in his voice or his manner, "then it is I he is laughing at not you. That brings us right back to my point.
Deep silence brooded over the water and the green islands which rose like oases from its glittering surface.
The train of thought it awakens is the most universal with which the soul of man can be touched, belonging to no age and no clime, but to all climes and ages, and embracing all that pertains to him on earth. It is his life-hymn and his death-anthem. It is mortality. Poets from immemorial time have brooded over life and death, but none with the seriousness and grandeur of this young American.
The gladiatorial show had lost its charms for him and his mind brooded gloomily over coming events. The sun was not up, though it was broad dawn when he and his companions went out into the cool, silent streets, realising when they breathed the morning air the closeness of the heated atmosphere they had quitted.
Whilst events were moving rapidly outside, time at Longdean Grange seemed to stand still. The dust and the desolation were ever there. The gloom brooded like an evil spirit. And yet it was but the calm before the storm that was coming to banish the hoary old spectres for good. Still, Enid felt the monotony to be as maddening as ever.
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