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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.
Hardly had I finished observing all this, and a great deal more besides, when a voice at my elbow exclaimed: "Good evening, Mr. Berrington. I wonder, now, if you'll remember me eh?" As I turned, I instantly recognized the speaker. "Of course I recollect you Mrs.
I nourished no resentment of the moody brusqueness with which he had treated me. The sentiment I was carrying away from that conversation was that of hopelessness. Before I had got fairly clear of the raft of chairs and tables he had rejoined me. "H'm, yes!" I heard him at my elbow again. "But what do you think?" I did not look round even. "I think that you people are under a curse."
He failed not to jog Roland's elbow, who was sitting in state behind him, and recommend to his particular attention those favourite passages.
When suddenly awakened by this boisterous turmoil, the first thought is that a dam has broken and a flood is at hand; but, by the time you rise upon your elbow, the scurrying uproar lessens, and gradually dies away along a more distant shore. We were slow in getting off this morning.
A man at my elbow, who afterward appeared in the capacity of money-taker, whispered, "There's the captin" and on looking up the gangway, I saw "A man of middle age, In aspect manly, grave, and sage,"
Villon surreptitiously refilled his cup, and settled himself more comfortably in the chair, crossing his knees and leaning his head upon one hand and the elbow against the back of the chair. He was now replete and warm; and he was in nowise frightened for his host, having gauged him as justly as was possible between two such different characters.
"I wonder what has changed him." "Food for mental occupation," said Sarah. "'A life monotonous, unrelieved, breeds selfish discontent, Dead'ning a mind to lofty thought for which by nature meant." Prudence brought the machine to a standstill, and propping one elbow upon the table rested her chin upon her hand. "I believe you are right, Aunt Sarah," she said slowly.
"Nonsense!" I took his elbow and steered him in what I made out to be the direction of the steps of the Italian garden. "I saw a deer just ahead by the last flash; that's what you heard. By Jove, I hear wheels." We paused to listen and Hotchkiss put his hand on something close to us. "Here's your deer," he said. "Bronze."
The bar between my hands held one down, while leaning on my elbow; I supported with the other my chains; and this so benumbed the muscles and prevented circulation, that I could perceive my arms sensibly waste away.
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