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She was on her knees with dustpan and whiskbroom, cleaning up the fragments of glass on the stained carpet. And she glanced up at him swiftly, diviningly. "Say you're in trouble yourself, ain't you?" She got up impulsively, spilling some of the contents of the pan.
She was on her knees with dustpan and whiskbroom, cleaning up the fragments of glass on the stained carpet. And she glanced up at him swiftly, diviningly. "Say you're in trouble yourself, ain't you?" She got up impulsively, spilling some of the contents of the pan.
She knew more and more every lapsing minute taught her how he might by a single rightness make her cease to watch him; that rightness, a million miles removed from the queer actual, falling so short, which would consist of his breaking out to her diviningly, indulgently, with the last happy inconsequence.
She knew more and more every lapsing minute taught her how he might by a single rightness make her cease to watch him; that rightness, a million miles removed from the queer actual, falling so short, which would consist of his breaking out to her diviningly, indulgently, with the last happy inconsequence.
She was on her knees with dustpan and whiskbroom, cleaning up the fragments of glass on the stained carpet. And she glanced up at him swiftly, diviningly. "Say you're in trouble yourself, ain't you?" She got up impulsively, spilling some of the contents of the pan.
And who that looks on the world as it is at this hour, with all our boasted aids and instrumentalities, who that hears that cry of sorrow which goes up from it day and night, who that looks at these masses of men as they are, who that dares to look at all this vice and ignorance and suffering which no instrumentality, mighty to relieve, has yet reached, shall think to put back, as if we had no need of it, this great gift of light and healing, this gift of power, which the scientific ages are bringing in; this gift which the ages of 'anticipation, the ages of inspiration and spontaneous affirmation, could only divinely diviningly foresee and promise; this gift which the knowledge of the creative laws, the historic laws, the laws of kind, as they are actual in the human nature and the human life, puts into our hands?
"How dramatically grewsome your suggestion, cherie! It really gives me the shivers! But supposing the absurdly impossible; what then? Don't you know that the world and all its hollow shams are well lost for a love like the one you are intimating?" It was a distinct challenge; one could read it diviningly in the set lips and flashing eyes as well.
If, at least, as the days went on, she was to fall short of her prerogative of the great national, the great maidenly ease, if she didn't diviningly and responsively desire and labour to record herself as possessed of it, this wouldn't have been for want of Densher's keeping her, with his idea, well up to it wouldn't have been in fine for want of his encouragement and reminder.
That is a romance in no wise divorced from reality is, in fact, but reality diviningly perceived; if it uses the old Romanticistic properties, it uses them not because of any inherent validity which they possess, but because they may at times be made to serve as symbols.
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