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Both clung to unselfishness as the highest reason for human action; but each expressed the thought in a manner incomprehensible to the other. "I cannot, Hilda," he answered steadily. "You sell me for ten thousand dollars! I cannot believe it! Harry! Harry! Must I put it to you as a choice? Don't you love me enough to spare me that?" He did not reply.
The air was heavy with the smoke of cigarettes, which clung to the oriental curtains and hung in clouds about the rare palms and plants. Everything in the San Giacinto house was large, comfortable and unostentatious. There was not a chair to be seen which might not have held the giant's frame. San Giacinto was a wonderful judge of what was good.
Hodder clung to the shell of reality, to the tiny panorama of the visible and the finite, to the infinitesimal gropings that lay recorded before him on the printed page. It were better to know. Scarcely had the body been lifted from the tree than the disputes commenced, the adulterations crept in.
An idea implanted early in life is difficult to uproot, and many elderly tradespeople still clung to the notion that Fred Beaucock knew a great deal of law. It was he who had called Melbury by name. "You look very down, Mr. Melbury very, if I may say as much," he observed, when the timber-merchant turned. "But I know I know. A very sad case very.
If you get her, cherish her give her everything that there is in you to give for there's nothing that a man can give that a good woman doesn't deserve. Now, God bless you, son and go." Tom Blake clung to the sheets. It was hard to lose such a father and such a mother, and all within a six month. He cried, as you would cry, or I, and be glad that crying might be.... Dr.
It was no mere sentiment on the lips of this fair child, it was the proclamation of a tremendous fact. She leaned back against the wall, lips set, hands clasped. She clung to the rock of her theories like a drowning man, and like the drowning man she realized the imminence of the inundation that threatened her.
But the waking impression of a dream is never the dream itself. Sunshine destroys the sense of enormous wonder. 'I believe I've been dreaming all night long, and going through all kinds of wild adventures. He dressed leisurely, still hunting subconsciously for fragments of that happy dreamland. Its aroma still clung about him. The sunshine poured into the room.
He inquired what her wishes and plans were, but she clung to him tenderly and whispered, "My only wish is to stay with you, my only plan is to make you happy." Kissing her tender lips, which could utter such entrancing words, he said, deeply moved: "Well, then, I propose that we travel together to Karachi. I am resolved to quit the Russian service and endeavour to return to Germany.
Even in the coldest breasts affection is fanned by opposition, and the more the queen's kindred were assailed, the more obstinately Edward clung to them.
The feature that concerns me most is that if I am detailed for duty, it will of necessity postpone our marriage." Various expressions broke from the ladies, and Netta exclaimed in terror: "But you will be in danger, Richard. Can no one else go?" and she clung to him as though her frail clasp could keep him in safety at her side. "I fear not. The state militia must do its duty.
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