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"I hear, Miss Cynthia," he said gallantly, "that your instinct is fortified by learning, since Miss Penniman tells me that you are quite capable of taking a school in Boston." "Then I should be doubly sure of your character," she retorted with a twinkle. "Will you tell my fortune?" he said gayly. "Not on such a slight acquaintance," she replied. "Good-by, Mr. Worthington."
On the contrary you should say, 'I am doubly fortunate: I escape a foolish, weak companion for life, and I have a beautiful ship. But friendship such as mine for you was never appreciated; I do you injustice; you only talk like that to tease me and make me unhappy." "Oh, Lucy, Lucy, did you ever know me " "There, now, forgive me; and own you are not in earnest."
Under ordinary circumstances such a sight would have been very inviting; but it was doubly so to Frank, after his long and hot ride.
Hanson gave him, which was doubly precious since her grandmother span the wool and colored and wove it with her own hands. It was a happy party which left Chicago on that memorable morning, and our journey was delightful. Father was waiting for us at the old home station, and instead of the old stage we rode home in an easy carry-all behind our own horses.
"And such messages are doubly possible when they are sent from friend to friend." "But we were close then." "That is why " again Dalgard indicated the mermen. "For them this is the natural means of communication. They will pick up your reaching thought, amplify it with their power, beam it north.
"Is sleeping," she answered. "I would see her." "She has need of your counsel. Come." She swept past him without another word, without looking at him even, and led the way. Dumitru stood at the door, doubly alert at the sound of approaching footsteps. One hand was thrust inside his cloak, and it was easy to guess what his fingers played with there. He smiled as he saw who the newcomer was.
The preoccupied faces of those people flashed up in her memory who, from day to day, without cease, in perfect confidence kindle the fire of thought and scatter the sparks over the whole earth. Her soul was flooded by the serene desire to give these people her entire force, and doubly the love of a mother, awakened and animated by their thoughts. At home Nikolay opened the door for the mother.
If she had been admirable the preceding evening in facing as she had done the return of her discarded lover, on coming direct from the tete-a-tete with her new one, perhaps, at that moment, she was doubly so, when she did not have her group of intimate friends to support her.
This was the document and these the words which Deborah, widow of the man thus doubly denounced, had been given to read by the father of the writer, in the darkened room which had been and still was to her, an abode of brooding thought and unfathomable mystery.
For when, his hat thrown aside, he stops, erect and frowning under the flaring gas-jet he had no recollection of lighting, his first act was to lift his hand to his head in a gesture of surprising helplessness for him, while snatches of broken sentences fell from his lips among which could be heard: "What has come to me? Undone in an hour! Doubly undone!
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