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She could only reply, that, being summoned to the parlour by the cries of Violet and Peony, she found no trace of the little white maiden, unless it were the remains of a heap of snow, which, while she was gazing at it, melted quite away upon the hearth-rug. "And there you see all that is left of it!" added she, pointing to a pool of water, in front of the stove.
It seems to me that 'good' mostly has its own way all the time. You can't drive it. And the best of it is I don't think there's a human creature so bad in this world, but that in some way God's work has been furthered through his life. Good-bye." For some moments the lonely figure stood gazing down the woodland aisles. The deep, shining light of a great hope was in his eyes.
The Syrian's first feeling was that of despair, as he stood gazing in the direction of the caravan which he could no longer see. Then Yusef lifted up his eyes to the sky above him: in its now darkened expanse shone the calm evening star, like a drop of pure light.
He sat quivering with alarm and rage as she told him, and then, mounting the stairs with a heavy tread, stood gazing in helpless fury at the slumbering form of Mr. James Flynn. "Get out o' my bed," he said at last, in a choking voice. "What, Bill!" said Mr. Flynn, opening his eyes. "Get out o' my bed," repeated the other. "You've made a nice mess of it between you.
Maturin read to her; but often when she was supposed to rest, she lay gazing out of the open window into silver space listening to the mocking laughter of the loons, watching the ducks flying across the sky; or, as evening drew on, marking in the waters a steely angle that grew and grew the wake of a beaver swimming homeward in the twilight.
The rising wind was sending little waves over the outer edge of the small island of rocks on which the three were marooned. It was another evidence that the tide was getting higher and higher. "What shall we do?" asked Ruth. "We must get help somehow!" Alice said. Then she looked shoreward, in the direction Paul was gazing, and she uttered the single expression: "Oh!"
She doesn't do it because I am, perhaps, even more dreadful to her than the water! She's marrying me out of spite; if she marries me, I tell you, it will be for spite!" "But how do you, how can you " began the prince, gazing with dread and horror at Rogojin. "Why don't you finish your sentence? Shall I tell you what you were thinking to yourself just then?
"Well, it's pretty, and it's becoming to you." Charlotte took up the skirt, and slipped it, loud with silken whispers, over her head. It swept out around her in a great circle; she looked like a gorgeous inverted bell-flower. "It's beautiful," Rose said. Charlotte's face, gazing downward at the silken breadths, had quite its natural expression.
Even as they spoke the ground heaved with a mighty convulsion beneath their feet, and an appalling roar rent the air, the echo resounding far and near. "Ah! You're feeling better? That's right." George Fairburn opened his eyes and beheld the face of none other than the Duke himself gazing kindly down upon him!
It was a beautiful sketch of a half-length figure, and represented Stafford in the garb of a monk, gazing up with eager eyes, full of the vision of the Eternal City beyond the skies. It was the face of a devotee and a visionary, and yet it was full of strength and resolution; and there was in it the look of a man who had put aside all except the service and the contemplation of the Divine.
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