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He studied her, as he would have studied a strange, showy and originally fragrant flower, or a bird of oddly attractive plumage. While she said little to him or to anyone else in his presence, he became aware of the willfulness and joyous lightness which played on her nature's changeable surface. He wondered at her influence over Father Beret, whom she controlled apparently without effort.
Mackenzie's first conceptions, on the contrary, were almost invariably erroneous; and he had a perverse habit of frequently clinging to an idea once formed, even when experience and deliberation had proved it to be unsound. At other times his opinions were as changeable as the hue of the chameleon.
But genuine philosophers do, as a matter of fact, teach this doctrine themselves, inasmuch as they work at endeavouring to alter the very changeable views of men, and do not keep their opinions to themselves.
But she has been in peace happy as the day was long, lately." "She is disturbed now yes, it is my fault and I will do penance for it. You understand I do not give up my hopes I only defer them." "But, Maurice, I don't understand. You are neither changeable, nor likely to give Lucia any excuse for being foolish. Why should you go away? She exclaimed how sorry she was when your cousin spoke of it."
For the multitude is changeable and fickle, so that fame, if it be not preserved, soon passes away.
As Robert gazed, the fascination of a great waterfall came over him like a spell. Who has not felt this beside Lodore, or Foyers, or Torc? Who has not found his eye mesmerized by the falling sheet of dark polished waters, merging into snowy spray and crowned with rainbow crest, most changeable, yet most unchanged?
"If you love, you say," exclaimed the king; "you do not love now, then?" She hid her face in her hands. "You see," said the king, "that I am right in accusing you; you must admit you are changeable, capricious, a coquette, perhaps." "Oh, no! sire, be perfectly satisfied as to that. No, I say again; no, no!" "Promise me, then, that to me you will always be the same." "Oh! always, sire."
It works for the true fellowship and unification of all mankind, for it never changes and is not subject to supersedure. The accidental, or nonessential, laws which regulate the transactions of the social body and everyday affairs of life are changeable and subject to abrogation. Let me ask: What is the purpose of Prophethood? Why has God sent the Prophets?
"Don't you see, it altered all the chances? To speak like a book I once read, wet weather is the narrative, and fine days are the episodes, of our country's history; now, isn't that true?" "But the time of year is come for changeable weather." "Well, yes. The fact is, these autumn races are the ruin of everybody. Never did I see such a day as 'twas!
A true product of the desert; as changeable and as sphynxlike and as impossible from any personal, human standpoint. Look how beautiful the desert could be, how terribly uplifting and calm and and big. To herself she called him the Man of the Desert, and she added the word mysterious, and she also added two lines of the song because they fitted exactly her conception of him as she knew him.
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