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Faints portrait of Thorwaldsen. Presented to him in after years by John Taylor Johnston. Given to King of Denmark. Reflections on the social evil and the theatre. Death of the Pope. An assassination. The Honorable Mr. Spencer and Catholicism. Election of Pope Gregory XVI.
He lies down, and with his brain full of delirious visions, appalling, grotesque, meaningless, beautiful, torturing by turns, still manages to catch an occasional minute of unconsciousness. He hears his name called tries to rise and answer but his voice faints in his throat and he falls back upon his bed.
Upon Miss Hattie Becker, who within the narrow slit had endured eight of these Augusts with only two casual faints and a swoon or two nipped in the bud, this ninth August came in so furiously that, sliding out of her sixth showing of a cloth-of-silver and blue-fox opera wrap, a shivering that amounted practically to chill took hold of her.
'He's got such an influence over Julius. 'Who is he? asked Gerald. 'He's a Jew, really. I can't bear him. 'Well, he's quite unimportant. But what's wrong with Halliday? 'Julius's the most awful coward you've ever seen, she cried. 'He always faints if I lift a knife he's tewwified of me. 'H'm! said Gerald. 'They're all afwaid of me, she said.
Since those on whom Pancracio had sat preferred to stand up, Demetrio and Luis Cervantes quickly seize the vacant seats. Suddenly a woman who has stood up holding a child all the way from Irapuato, faints. A civilian takes the child in his arms. The others pretend to have seen nothing. Some women, traveling with the soldiers, occupy two or three seats with baggage, dogs, cats, parrots.
At the end of months of unwearied courtship, Mr. Barnes Newcome is honestly accepted, and Lady Clara is waiting for him at Baden, not unhappy to receive him; when walking on the promenade with her father, the ghost of her dead love suddenly rises before her, and the young lady faints to the ground.
Even then she would only marry him on condition that if ever he should touch her with iron she would be free to leave him and return to her family. Catastrophe, as before. In a variant the maiden, pressed by her human lover, promises to marry, provided he can find out her name. When he succeeds in doing this she faints away, but has to submit to her doom.
You'll stand behind the door to do what I tell you. You're a soldier's daughter, Susan, and haven't a claim to be excitable." "My mother was given to faints," Susan protested on behalf of her possible weakness. "You may peep." Thus Mrs. Boulby tossed a sop to her frail woman's nature.
There Affectation, with a sickly mien, Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen, Practised to lisp, and hang the head aside, Faints into airs, and languishes with pride; On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe, Wrapt in a gown, for sickness and for show." Methinks I now have given you specimens enough from the English poets.
It seems, the gentleman was a lover of a good yellow; and it is known, that when nature in the auricula is exhausted, and has spent her strengh in showing a fine flower, perhaps some years upon the same root, she faints at last, and then turns into a yellow, which yellow shall be bright and pleasant the first year, and look very well to one that knows nothing of it, though another year it turns pale, and at length almost white.
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