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When the young man stepped through the doorway he was at once encompassed with the strangest blend of odours; every article in the shop groceries of all kinds, pastry, cooked meat, bloaters, newspapers, petty haberdashery, firewood, fruit, soap seemed to exhale its essence distressfully under the heat; impossible that anything sold here should preserve its native savour.

In the pursuance of this end she at once started on a voyage of discovery in Miss Bart's behalf; and as the result of her explorations she now summoned the latter with the announcement that she had "found something." Left to herself, Gerty mused distressfully upon her friend's plight, and her own inability to relieve it.

But for some little time she was distressfully aware that she had never considered her parents in the matter at all. She had thought of worldly disadvantage only. She had not felt any desire to stand by Wyvis Brand in his trouble.

She was a small, old-fashioned boat, and for she had some 3,000 tons of railway iron in the bottom of her she rolled distressfully. Her tall spars swayed athwart the vivid blueness of the morning sky, with the rhythmic regularity of a pendulum.

"Try my salts, dear Mary," said Miss Crewys, hastening to apply the remedies which were always to be found in her black velvet reticule. "I blame myself," said the canon, distressfully "I blame myself. I should have insisted on breaking the news to her gently." Lady Mary smiled upon them all.

He began evidently to look, or try to look, for some person; but they could not divine his wish until, with piteous feebleness, he called: "Aurore De Grapion!" So he had known her all the time. Honoré's mother had dropped on her knees beside the bed, dragging Aurora down with her. They rose together. The old man groped distressfully with one hand. She laid her own in it. "Honoré!

And while such an one is ploughing distressfully up the road, it is not hard to understand his resentment, when he perceives cool persons in the meadows by the wayside, lying with a handkerchief over their ears and a glass at their elbow. Alexander is touched in a very delicate place by the disregard of Diogenes.

"Paulette Dubois has heard the word, 'Go and sin no more'; she will obey." Walking through the village as they talked, the Cure shrank back painfully several times, for voices of strangers, singing festive songs, rolled out upon the road. "Who can they be?" he said distressfully. Without a word the Seigneur went to the door of the inn whence the sounds proceeded, and, without knocking, entered.

"Josie," said Alice dramatically, "you don't mean to say that you are afraid of this man! Are you?" "No, no!" said the girl doubtfully and distressfully; "but it's so hard to say 'No' to him! If you only knew all, Alice, you wouldn't blame me and you'd go!"

Motionless and hesitating in presence of the opening expanse, Pierre distressfully pondered as to whither he should go now that all which he had so passionately sought to achieve since the morning had suddenly crumbled away. Was he still bound for the Duvillard mansion in the Rue Godot-de-Mauroy? He no longer knew. Then the exasperating remembrance, with its cruel irony, returned to him.