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Yet he bore himself with the easy dignity of a man who counts more inferiors than superiors. Despite the arrogant manner of his address, Garnache felt prepossessed in the newcomer's favour. But before he could answer him, the host was speaking. "Monsieur mistakes..." he began. "Mistakes?" thundered the other in an accent slightly foreign.
He has not Stevenson's exquisite and yet daring appropriateness in the choice of words, but his humour is racier and scarcely less delicate, and in passages of pathos he knows his way straight to the human heart As the invention or discovery of new themes grows day by day less easy as the bounds of the story-teller's personal originality are constantly narrowing the purely literary faculty, the mere craft of authorship in its finer manifestations must of necessity grow more valuable.
He must have boys at any cost, and quickly, to develop certain properties. He "... turned an easy wheel That set sharp racks at work, to pinch and peel." Then he interviewed an agent in an office, and did some very delicate work indeed in the drafting of a prospectus. He had earned a drink by then.
There were twenty-four men to be carried, besides all the baggage that must be taken, even though a pack-train was to leave, after the departure of the boat, to transport extra supplies to the end of the voyage, wherever that might be. It is not easy to understand why so large a party was necessary.
There was an easy air of possession about the party of them that they had never before assumed, and the sight made me rattle again, the big door behind me. "A surprise for you, my dear nephew," Grafton said gayly, "I'll, lay a puncheon you did, not, expect us." Mr.
Although the previous night had been a very restless one, it had not the effect of inducing repose in the writer's berth on the succeeding night; for having been so much tossed about in bed during the last thirty hours, he found no easy spot to turn to, and his body was all sore to the touch, which ill accorded with the unyielding materials with which his bed-place was surrounded.
It was not, however, easy to approach her for this purpose. Did I offer to run and fetch her handkerchief, she was obliged to go to her room, and would rather do it herself. She did not like to have people turn over for her the leaves of the music book as she played. Did I approach my stool to her feet, she moved away, as if to give me room.
Obligatory, of course, it cannot be: it is easy to cite a hundred admirable plays in which it is impossible to discover anything that can reasonably be called a peripety.
He was patently awed by her soft womanhood. "There!" she cried triumphantly. "I knew you wouldn't." The man was embarrassed. "I ain't never manhandled a woman yet," he explained, "and it don't come easy. But I sure will, if you set to screaming." "Won't you stay a few minutes and talk?" she urged. "I'm so interested.
She was finer in her feelings than the rest, and she had to deceive in order to get on in the world. So he sat there, talking of the dead, and one couldn't notice any feeling in him. I wouldn't let him see how sick at heart he made me feel. For him it was the best thing, so long as his conscience could sleep easy.
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