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Her concluding observations as to the Countess, in particular, I consider to have been an example of sustained invective such as one rarely encounters in this degenerate age. Well, her next essay in creative composition is my supper, which will be an equally spirited impromptu. To-morrow she will darn and sew me an epic; and her desserts will continue to be in the richest lyric vein.
The others now were coming in, and Helen only shook her head, smiling on and quite unconvinced as she said, taking her chair, and reaching out her hand to shake Althea's, 'I'm afraid the inessentials matter most, then, in human intercourse. From these fortuitous encounters Helen gathered the impression by degrees that though Mr.
The expression of his face was ingenuous, not to say simple. She resolved to risk it. So far he had always won in their brief encounters, and monotony was always distasteful to her, especially monotony of that kind. "And what about me?" she said, with a friendly smile.
SIR, For man the physiological psychology of woman is full of difficulties. He is not a little mystified when he encounters in her periodically recurring phases of hypersensitiveness, unreasonableness, and loss of the sense of proportion. He is frankly perplexed when confronted with a complete alteration of character in a woman who is child-bearing.
It is not necessary to enumerate the number of encounters that took place between Gordon's men and the Mahdists; he took little personal part in these engagements. The fiery spirit of the young soldier, who led his own troops in China, had not expended itself, but was kept in subjection by a higher spirit. He knew that much was staked on his life, and that the risk was too great.
When the hour came, it may be said of him that he felt he had done his best the actual fighting was left largely in the hands of his corps commanders. The feints and slight encounters preceding the battle of Fredericksburg are not of much interest or importance.
Major Davies has considered this question in his valuable book to which I have already referred, and I cannot do better than quote his remarks here. The numerous non-Chinese tribes that the traveler encounters in western China, form perhaps one of the most interesting features of travel in that country.
You remember him before he went to Montreal? He is gay, full of fancies, as brave as can be, and plays and sings well, but he is very hot-headed, and likes to play the tyrant. We have some bad encounters now and then. But we love each other better for it; he respects me, and he does not become spoiled, as you will see when you come to us. I have had no society yet.
No one indeed was coming along the road, but how about the air and the light of day? True shame encounters eyes everywhere. She covered her face with her pañuelo and walked along blindly, weeping in silence at her disgrace.
The ``statesman'' whom office does not render positively nefarious is at best an expensive superfluity. Syndicalists have had many violent encounters with the forces of government.
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