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"Oh, dear," she said, "the sun is getting quite low, and Marie will think I am lost." "Dear, dear! We ought to have thought of that," said the old lady. "Will not your father be anxious also?" "Papa is away from home for a few days," said Una. Then she made a little curtsey. "May I go now, please?" she asked; and the old lady walked with her as far as the little door.
Such a deed could scarcely be otherwise regarded by the priest, but Barbara's disregard of his first gift offended him far more than the excellent disposition evinced by the hasty act pleased him. She had flung the first tangible token of his love into the insatiable jaws of a worthless profligate, like a copper coin thrown as alms to a beggar.
Astley’s has altered for the better—we have changed for the worse. Our histrionic taste is gone, and with shame we confess, that we are far more delighted and amused with the audience, than with the pageantry we once so highly appreciated.
But Hughie stood looking at him, his face showing his terrible anxiety. God and sin were vivid realities to him. "Yes, yes," said the old man to himself, "it is a great gospel. 'As far as the east is distant from the west. 'And plenteous redemption is ever found with him." "But, do you think," said Hughie, in a low voice, "God will tell all our sins? Will he make them known?"
He got scared. He knew he’d gone too far—and he was afraid to stand by his guns.” “I don’t think so. I think he’s just trying to do the right thing.” It was unfortunate for Irving that later in the afternoon Carter of the Fifth Form—who played in the banjo club with Westby—was passing the Study building just as Westby was coming out from his confinement.
Cuthbert, who was many kinds of a barometer, sought her out later in the courtyard. "Your husband's feeling tiptop, isn't he?" said he. "He's been locked up with old Wing all day. Something's in the wind, and I'd give a good deal to know what it is." "I'm afraid I can't inform you," replied Honora. Mr. Cuthbert apologized. "Oh, I didn't mean to ask you far a tip," he declared, quite confused.
It looked as if some unseen hands were spreading a sheet above these flocculent clouds a thin and vapoury sheet that came from the north and gradually covered the whole roof of the sky. Stars and moon disappeared; but not, so far, the light of the moon; it merely became diffused the way the light from an electric bulb becomes diffused when you enclose it in a frosted globe.
The daughter had enjoyed greater advantages than her parents; she had been trained in the best schools, and as far as her naturally weak mind was capable of doing so, had profited by the efforts of her teachers. She was a weak and silly girl, and was indulged in every whim and caprice by her parents.
Before it, the orchard dropped away at one side, leaving a wide vista of brown meadows, sown with more of the pointy trees and grayed here and there by rocks; beyond that, a silver slip of water, and the far shore blue, blue in the distance.
"Because," said Malicorne, lowering his voice, and resorting to his former air of mystery, because he saw that the mysterious had succeeded, "because if I had to set off suddenly, to decamp at any moment, my account would be settled." "You are right, monsieur." "I may consider myself at home, then?" "Perfectly." "So far so well. Adieu!" And the landlord withdrew.
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