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"The attempt is novel. Who knows? Perhaps it will succeed!" "May Heaven grant it," said Cayrol. Then, approaching Panine: "Ah! dear Prince, what gratitude I shall owe you! You know," added he in a whisper, "if you need a few thousand louis for wedding presents " "Go, go, corrupter!" replied Serge, with the same forced gayety; "you are flashing your money in front of us.
But her attempt at gayety fell flat. She lighted a cigaret from the stand beside her and fell to studying his face. "What's happened to you?" she asked. "There's a change in you, somehow. I've noticed it ever since you came home. You ought to be smug and contented, if any man should. But you're not, are you?" "I'm working hard. That's all. I don't want to talk about myself," he added impatiently.
If he can smite water from the rock of one hardened human heart if he can bring light to the eye or wholesome color to the faded cheek if he can bring or restore in ever so slight degree the sunshine of hope, of pleasure, of gayety, surely he cannot have worked in vain.
I sometimes fear that underneath her girlish gayety Mabel Blossom conceals a morbid nature. But I am forgetting Josephine James. This story will tell why, with all her advantages of wealth and education and beauty, she remained a maiden lady till she was twenty-eight; and she might have kept on, too, if Kittie had not taken matters in hand and settled them for her.
Was this the way serious, endless separations began between men and their wives? Her mind flitted sickly to other people's troubles: the Waynes, who had separated because Rose liked gayety and Fred liked domestic peace; the Gardiners, who well, there never did seem to be any reason there.
Such a voyage does not lend itself to much diversion or variety of interests, but there were the usual attempts at gayety in the line of dancing, music, and the exhilarating "Captain's dinner"; hence with congenial people the days were pleasantly whiled away. Among the fellow passengers were some former friends, but I will mention only those who in a sense belong to the public. There was Mr.
In the midst of their consultations, the king's chamberlain came to attend Haman to the banquet prepared by Esther. He goes but rather like a man led to execution, than one invited to a festival. But he must conceal his chagrin, and assume the smile of gayety. Having partook of the feast, Ahasuerus requires of Esther the fulfilment of her promise, in the explanation of her wishes.
If the movement is sincerely joyous, as in the mirth of a village holiday, such a nature shares insensibly in the joy; but if the movement is a false and spurious gayety, as in a state ball, where the impassive face and languid step are out of harmony with the evident object of the scene, then the nature we speak of feels chilled and dejected.
The stocks had been moved from their usual station to this place to remind the people in the midst of their gayety that the displeasure of the King was a thing to be dreaded, and that they were not their own masters, even when they made merry. On the morning of that day came my brother John's man-servant to shave and dress me, and the physician to attend to my wounds.
The merely aesthetic aspects of its life, its gayety and social pleasures, he regarded good-naturedly, with the air of a spectator who tolerated rather than needed or enjoyed them. There was nothing ascetic or severe in him, but I have often thought since that his feeling was probably what he might have afterwards described as a consciousness that he must be about his Father's business.
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