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She told herself that it was horrible, horrible, that she could not endure it, that it was impossible. She was in a fairly desperate mood. She had a sudden impulse to run away and leave everybody and everything, even Evelyn and her aunt, whom she loved so well. She felt pitiless towards everybody except herself. She took out her pocket-book and counted the money which it contained.
"Your enthusiasms, my dear Evelyn, are delightful. The last book you read, the last person you meet " "Do you think I am so frivolous, so changeable as that, dear Mother?" "Not changeable, Evelyn, but spontaneous."
Miss Forbes is here. I must tell her your news!" He turned to Evelyn. "Hooray!" he almost yelled. "Your mother is all right. She is with Mr. Handyside. Some sort of miracle has happened. Come and listen." Aroused from a stupor of grief as though she had received a galvanic shock, Evelyn sprang up.
And this essential and primal truth Evelyn revealed to him and the very spirit and sense of maidenhood, the centre and receptacle of life, the mysterious secret of things, the awful moment when the whisper of the will to live is heard in matter, the will which there is no denying, the surrender of matter, the awaking of consciousness in things.
Dennis, and then the devotions by means of which he had swept aside all other suitors of Evelyn Darrah, had set all tongues to wagging. "The old Willett over again," said Bright, who had known him at the Point. Only that day had the mail come up from Almy and McDowell, and he ought to have known what it would betray.
Life on the Metz farm went on in even tenor year in and year out. Maria Metz never changed to any appreciable extent her mode of living or her methods of working, and she tried to teach Phœbe to conform to the same monotonous existence and live as several generations of Metzes had done. But Phœbe was a veritable Evelyn Hope, made of "spirit, fire and dew."
"May I offer a suggestion?" asked Evelyn modestly, blushing as she spoke. "Certainly, my dear," said Mrs. Travilla. "We will be glad to hear it," said the captain. "Then it is that all who think they would find it agreeable will spend at least a week or two with me in my cottage on the Hudson.
Stackpole, rubbing his chin still, there is a natural love of life the world could not get on if there was not." "If the love of life is natural, the fear of death must be so, by the same reason." "Undoubtedly," said Mrs. Evelyn, "it is natural it is part of the constitution of our nature." "Yes," said Mr.
Evelyn was a young lady, and was to graduate the next year, and still her mother had not returned. She was the sweetest young creature in the world at that time. She was such a beauty that people used to turn and stare after her. Evelyn never seemed to notice it, but she was quite conscious, in a happy, childlike fashion, of her beauty.
Unfortunately there was one misapprehension on his part of which I became aware too late, namely, that Sir Evelyn Baring was hostile to Italians in Egypt and predisposed to combat Crispi's conditions.
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