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She put an her tweed coat and rubber overshoes, considering how honest and hopeless are rubbers, how clearly their chaperonage proved that she wasn't going to a lovers' tryst. She found him in the shadow of the grain-elevator, sulkily kicking at a rail of the side-track. As she came toward him she fancied that his whole body expanded.
"But I don't understand," said the bishop. "Why is she discontented? What is there that she wants different?" "Exactly," said Lady Ella. "She has got this idea that life here is secluded in some way," she expanded. "She used words like 'secluded' and 'artificial' and what was it? 'cloistered. And she said " Lady Ella paused with an effect of exact retrospection.
Her breath, her arms, her whole being enveloped the little dying creature with a fulness of passionate existence expanded to its highest. It was like taking back the half-extinguished germ into the very bosom and core of life. They stood round her with an awe of her, which would permit no intrusion either of word or act.
Spencers, who have never been touched by woman before, follow her, and act just as she wills." Little Celia, who had been quite a belle hitherto, sunk into the shade by the side of the brilliant Isabella. Yet she followed willingly in the sunny wake that Isabella left behind. She expanded somewhat, herself, for she was quite ashamed to know nothing of all that Isabella talked about so earnestly.
She had learned her trade, but she had embellished it and permitted it to develop as she herself had grown and expanded. Lynda looked now at her wrist-watch; it was four-thirty. The last mail delivery had brought a short but inspiring note from Con per Dr. McPherson. "I've got my grip again, Lynda! The day brings appetite and strength; the night, sleep! I wonder whether you know what that means?
If it isn't the perfectly marvelous Mr. David Carroll!" Carroll bowed instinctively. Then his lips expanded into the first wholesome smile he had experienced in forty-eight hours. "Miss Evelyn Rogers!" "You did recognize me, didn't you? How simply splendiferous! I'm awfully glad we met!" "So am I, Miss Rogers." She dropped her voice confidentially.
The fantail has thirty or even forty tail-feathers, instead of twelve or fourteen, the normal number in all members of the great pigeon family; and these feathers are kept expanded, and are carried so erect that in good birds the head and tail touch; the oil-gland is quite aborted. Several other less distinct breeds might have been specified.
Do thou for ever occupy the station belonging to thy lather and grand-father! And beholding the king possessed of sight and able-bodied, they bowed down their heads, their eyes expanded with wonder. Then having worshipped those old and Brahmanas dwelling in the hermitage and honoured by them in return, the king set out for his city.
The period of his marriage and his succession to the hoardings of his former master, may be dated as the second epocha in the opinions of my ancestor. From this moment his ambition expanded, his views enlarged in proportion to his means, and his contemplations on the subject of his great floating capital became more profound and philosophical.
My affections had long been engaged by the younger son of a neighbouring nobleman, whose character and accomplishments attracted my early love, and confirmed my latest esteem. Our families were intimate, and our youthful intercourse occasioned an attachment which strengthened and expanded with our years. He solicited me of my father, but there appeared an insuperable barrier to our union.
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