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Millborne's eyes, though fixed on the fire, were really regarding attentively a town in the West of England. 'Yes, he continued, 'I have never quite forgotten it, though during the busy years of my life it was shelved and buried under the pressure of my pursuits. And, as I say, to-day in particular, an incident in the law- report of a somewhat similar kind has brought it back again vividly.
He often said: "She was so gay, so happy-hearted but you never smile; and always when you think I am not looking, you cry." When Conrad died, they buried him under the linden, according to his directions, so that he might rest "near his poor Catharina."
And though I buried myself in a madness deeper than night, they would still cling to me. Though I castrated myself, they would remain five invisible testicles. It is impossible to possess. Folly to attempt. As long as the senses remain life clings like a dead whore to my darkness.
Which in the afternoon was done; where, it being Sunday, all people far and near come in; and in the greatest disorder that ever I saw, we made shift to serve them what we had of wine and other things; and then to carry him to the church, where Mr. Taylor buried him, and Mr.
He chuckled, and they left their log and strolled back toward the house. "Come and I'll show you what the valley looks like, Wes," Sophie said to him, when they had finished dinner, and Carr had his nose buried in mail just that evening arrived.
His father never mentions his name; his mother sometimes talks of "poor Adolphus;" but if he were dead and buried he could not give less trouble to the people of Grey Abbey. No change has occurred, or is likely to take place, in the earl himself nor is any desirable. How could he change for the better? How could he bear his honours with more dignity, or grace his high position with more decorum?
"And I saw him digging clams in the loam on Turtle Head." "What do you mean by that?" "I think he buried the tin box there. I saw where he had been digging, but I didn't know any tin box had been stolen then, and thought nothing of it," answered Donald. At this moment there was a tremendous ring at the door bell, a ring that evidently "meant business."
Very softly she got up, and took up the large stone under the fire, and creeping out carried the bones to the cave by the fountain, where she dug a hole and buried them anew.
He nodded first. Then, as he saw the joy leap to his sister's eyes he shook his head vigorously, and the result pleased him. "He's got to die," he said. The woman suddenly reeled, and fell on her knees at the table, with her face buried on her outstretched arms. Elia watched her for some moments. He felt that here was some recompense for what he had gone through.
Those fared best, as the general had predicted, who travelled lightest, and many were the unfortunate wretches, who, weighed down by the fatal treasure, were buried with it at the bottom of the lake. Cortés, with a few others, still kept in advance, leading the miserable remnant off the causeway.
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