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And in her words he savoured a certain old-time flavour of primness and pride a vaguely delicate hint of resentment, which it amused him to excite. Pacing the dunes with her waist enlaced, he said, to incite retort: "The old families are done for.
Into this chamber he introduced a small iron bed, the kind used by monks, fashioned of antique, forged and polished iron, the head and foot adorned with thick filigrees of blossoming tulips enlaced with vine branches and leaves. Once this had been part of a balustrade of an old hostel's superb staircase.
He stopped talking, took his snuff-box from his pocket, and filled his nose with a pinch. The night was densely dark. The moon shed her limpid light over the river, and tremblingly enlaced with the reflections of the street lamps. The flying ephemerides enveloped us like a vaporous eddy. The shrill voice of insects rose into the world's silence.
This couple so stealthily enlaced, the gleam of their furtively turned eyes, the whispering of their lips, that stony niche below the twittering sparrows, so cunningly sought out it was the world he had abjured! When he looked again, they like a vision seen had stolen away and gone; the music too had ceased, there was no scent of heliotrope.
Her father has come back! Her dear father has come back to her!" Presently the room ceased to go round and round, and Israel knew that Naomi's arms surrounded him, that his own arms enlaced her, and that her head was pressed hard against his bosom. Yes, it was she! It was Naomi! Ali had told him truth. She lived! She was well! She could hear!
Once or twice he looked at it, seemingly lost in reflection; once or twice he turned it about in his hand as if to make certain it was intact; then, with a deep sigh indicative of satisfaction, he stepped back into bed, slipped the packet under his pillow and, with his fingers faithfully enlaced in the string, fell asleep. It was eleven o'clock when the boy woke.
It came at once, and in another instant its arms were enlaced around her. The same frenzy that had seized Nicholas now took possession of Dorothy, and her dance with Isole might have come to a similar conclusion, if it had not been abruptly checked by Mistress Nutter, who, waving her hand, and pronouncing a spell, the figure instantly quitted Dorothy, and, with a wild shriek, fled.
"Let go or take care!" "Oh, stop your threats luscious strawberry that you are!" He drew her to him and pressed his thick lips into her sunburnt cheek. She gave a wild laugh of defiance, seized Iakov's arms and suddenly, with a quick movement of her whole body threw herself forward. They fell into the water enlaced, forming a single heavy mass, and disappeared under the splashing foam.
The Doctor, entering, found them enlaced: he concluded that his wife was in fault; and he was just beginning, in an awful voice, 'Anastasie , when she looked up at him, smiling, with an upraised finger; and he held his peace, wondering, while she led the boy to his attic.
There were a wooden bed without any curtains, a chamber pot with a piece broken out of the side, a wash bowl and two chairs. The man brought a decanter of gin, a large one of water, some sugar, and glasses, then went downstairs. Her eyes were sombre, mad. She enlaced Durtal. "No!" he shouted, furious at having fallen into this trap. "I've had enough of that. It's late.
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