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He had the memory, though, of the girl's arms about his neck, and her dear lips crushed to his for a brief instant, and her words ah, those words! They would ring in Billy's head forever: "I love you, Billy, for what you ARE." And a sudden resolve came into the mucker's mind as he whispered those words over and over again to himself. "I can't have her," he said.
I am not in the market." Farnham crushed a bitter oath between his gleaming teeth, and flung his sodden cigar-butt to the floor. "Do you actually mean you are crazy enough to go with Hicks, after all I 've told you?" "I propose to discover for myself whether his claim is just. If it is, I 'm with him."
On opening this I found the money, not in currency notes, but in gold rolled up in paper. I had no time to count out what I wanted. There were twenty rolls, all of which I took and tied up in a corner of my sari. What a weight it was. The burden of the theft crushed my heart to the dust. Perhaps notes would have made it seem less like thieving, but this was all gold.
The consciousness of the truth pressed upon her to benumbing; but she was utterly unable to separate points or look at the connection of them. She had lived and suffered before; now she was crushed and dead; that was all she knew. She could not even measure the full weight of her misery; she lay too prostrate beneath it. So things were, when very shortly after the minister came in.
She saw the rose, snatched it up, glanced at its crushed, muddy petals, glanced at me, and her eyes, brought suddenly to a standstill, were bright with tears. 'What are you crying for? I asked. 'Why, see this rose. Look what has happened to it. Then I thought fit to utter a profound remark. 'Your tears will wash away the mud, I pronounced with a significant expression.
Mildred thought to herself that this was an odd way of paying a compliment, if it was meant for one; but then, old gentlemen with crushed fingers are not given to weighing their words. "Are you Dr. James' daughter?" he asked, presently. "Yes, sir." "Ugh, I have lived most of my life in Sherborne Lane, and never saw anything half so pretty in it before. Confound this finger!"
Well is it with him that reciteth it at eventide and at dawn. We, verily, hear thy praise of this Cause, through which the mountain of knowledge was crushed, and men’s feet have slipped. My glory be upon thee and upon whomsoever hath turned unto the Almighty, the All-Bounteous. Be patient, for thy Lord is patient."
L , the relative and friend with whom I was staying, of the magnificent funeral would be given to Miss C . Ah, little heeded that pale crushed flower of yesterday, the pomp that was to convey her from the hot-bed of luxury to the cold, damp vault of St. Giles's melancholy looking church! I stood at Mrs.
Fortunately the ground fell off just at that point, causing them to swerve to the left; otherwise they would have crushed donkey, cart, and all to powder. The earth trembled, and their hoofs sent a volley of clods and small stones flying through the air, one of which struck the donkey on the head and wounded him. The last that was seen of them they were tearing down a ravine.
"Earth, one time, put on a frolic mood, Heaved the rocks and changed the mighty motion Of the deep, strong currents of the ocean; Moved the plain and shook the haughty wood Crushed the little fern in soft, moist clay, Covered it and hid it safe away. O, the long, long centuries since that day! O, the changes! O, life's bitter cost, Since that useless little fern was lost! "Useless? Lost?
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