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He had small need to threaten her with blows every word stabbed. But her turn had come to strike back. She raised her head; she measured her news against his; and she did it with a kind of exultation. "Then I will tell yer an' I 'ope it 'ull do yer good. I took thirty-one pound o' Bolderfield's money then but it warn't me took the rest. Some one else tuk it, an' I stood by an' saw 'im.
It was very easy to blame one woman, and to cast reflections upon the entire sex. If these brothers had not quarrelled about that woman, they would have fallen out over something else. Some men are so: they are like a strong spirit light and yet potent that floats upon the top of all other liquids and will mingle with none.
Money, learning, wealth, fame, and all else that makes up the difference between men in the world are acquired in the world; and when men die, they go out of the world without any of these things, just as they came into it. The real difference between them in the next world will depend upon the things they have done, good or bad, while here.
The little clock on the mantelpiece clanged ten before they laid aside Napoleon and began to talk about something that interested Eddie Deever far more than all else Elias Droom himself and such of his experiences as he cared to relate.
"On his boat, the Egret, he has as his guests during the tourist season some of the most prominent people of the country. "When the season is over, or before it is on, he has no guests down here. That is his vacation time, the time when Garman plays. "There are more criminal refugees in the wilds of this swamp country than anywhere else in this land.
It was of no use to repent of it now. He had frozen the love out of her heart, long ago. He saw and heard that, unconscious to all else; he would have known it, if he had been dead, lying there. It was too late now: why need he think of what might have been?
Raymond, I have heard men speak of love, but till that moment I knew not what they meant. Now methinks I have a better understanding, for if yon sweet maiden had looked long into my eyes, my very soul would sure have gone out to her, and I should have straightway forgot all else in the world but herself.
But that was it you never could think what things would be like if they weren't just what and where they were. You never knew what was coming, either; and yet, when it came, it seemed as if nothing else ever could have come.
Marianna gave him many a fair promise and swore solemnly she would do it. That calmed Mr. Tiralla more than anything else. "Oh, thank you, thank you!" Then he gave her all the money he had in his pocket, and promised to give her much more for herself and children if she would give information as soon as he lay in his grave.
Perhaps I am inclined to plume myself upon this point, from the fact that it was the opinion of Carlo Maratti that 'The arrangement of drapery is more difficult than drawing the human figure; because the right effect depends more upon the taste of the artist than upon any given rules. That sweep of blue gauze has cost me more toil than everything else on the canvas."
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