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I am contemplating a terrible revenge. That is, I haven't really begun to contemplate it yet. I am just getting ready. But when I do start well, you'll see." "I think it would be delightful to hear you sing, 'Ah, I Have Sighed to Rest Me, Hippy," broke in Nora sweetly, a mischievous twinkle in her eyes. "Can I believe my ears? The stony, unsympathetic Nora O'Malley agrees with me at last.
Having the poorest right not any to reproach her, he was disarmed, he felt himself a miserable intruder; he summoned his passion to excuse him, and gained some unsatisfied repose of mind by contemplating its devoted sincerity; which roused an effort to feel for the sufferer Diana Warwick's friend.
His enjoyment in contemplating his own virtues was overclouded, however, by a vague presentiment of impending danger, the "premonition" he had of to Polly a word he had picked up from fortune-tellers, whom he often consulted, being very superstitious, as are most gamblers. And Nemesis in the person of Peruna was indeed approaching.
On he came, and, at the base of the knoll on which they stood, overtook his prey, and grasping it by the throat, with one hand dealt it a succession of furious blows on the head which knocked it down, when choking it until life was extinct, he stood upright contemplating his prey.
Mirrors with blemished surfaces, and names scratched across them, like spiders' webs; sofas of discolored velvet, with springs that creaked atrociously; the bed decorated with theatrical hangings, as clean and common as a sidewalk, and on the walls, pictures of bull-fighters and cheap chromos of angelic virgins smelling a rose or languorously contemplating a bold hunter.
She had no longer even the melancholy satisfaction of contemplating his image in her heart, for he was no longer the same Valancourt she had cherished there the solace of many a mournful hour, the animating friend, that had enabled her to bear up against the oppression of Montoni the distant hope, that had beamed over her gloomy prospect!
In a speech delivered December 12, 1826, in defense of his position in not having arrested the French invasion of Spain, he said: I looked another way I sought for compensation in another hemisphere. Contemplating Spain, such as our ancestors had known her, I resolved that, if France had Spain, it should not be Spain with the Indies.
"Well," said the Idiot, slowly, "I er I am contemplating a change, Mrs. Pedagog a change that would fill me I say it sincerely, too with regret if " The Idiot paused a minute, and his eye swept fondly about the table. His voice was getting a little husky too, Mr. Whitechoker noticed.
Suddenly the woodsmen fell back; there was a moment of solemn and terrible suspense; then the enormous trunk heaved and plunged down among the brushwood with an alarming crash of breaking branches. A sound as of lamentation rumbled through the icy forest, and then all was still. The men, with unconscious emotion, stood contemplating the monarch oak lying prostrate on the ground.
And when Stephen Brice looks backward now, he laughs to think that he did not suspect the Judge of being an ally of the two who are mentioned above. The sum total of Mr. Whipple's words and advices to him that summer had been these. Stephen was dressed more carefully than usual, in view of a visit to Bellefontaine Road. Whereupon the Judge demanded whether he were contemplating marriage.
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