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His victim started from sleep, and it would appear that he instantly suspected the purpose of his old associate, for it was in a tone of alarm that he demanded wherefore he disturbed him. "I come to confess and to absolve thee," answered the Grand Master.
Lem, with a grand air, "or would you prefer to go directly upstairs to your chamber?" There was an atmosphere of the world about Sylvia which Mrs. Lem recognized at once from long experience with summer people; and secure in her pompadour, the psyche knot, and the shine of her best gown, she wished to show this young girl that her sophistication was shared even in a rural district.
The army under Wellington, handled with splendid judgment, had to wait long for its opportunity, which came when Napoleon with the Grand Army had plunged into the vast expanse of Russia.
They are eyes that delight in seeing, eyes to seek a place in the first row of the grand stand of world events, eyes that turn steadily outward upon objective reality. Not the eyes of a visionary House got his visions of the brotherhood of man and the rest of it at second-hand from Wilson eyes that glow not with the internal fires of a great soul, but with the intoxication of the spectacle.
Her fingers crept to the cigarette-box, then found and struck a match, all with a deft, unobtrusive quiet that won its way undenied. The cigarette was lighted, Maxine leaned back in her chair, Jacqueline's confidential moment was secured. "And so, madame, it was a grand success?" Maxine looked up.
The first thing that intrudes itself upon our notice, by virtue of its primary importance, is the grand fact of biogenesis life emanating from life.
The king was enabled at last to realise the formation of that Grand Alliance for which he had so long been working.
Twilight combined with the scenery of Egdon Heath to evolve a thing majestic without severity, impressive without showiness, emphatic in its admonitions, grand in its simplicity.
Gloriously grand was Afy that day and if I had but a photographing machine at hand or whatever may be the scientific name of the thing you should certainly have been regaled with the sight of her. Joyce would have gone down in a fit had she encountered her by an unhappy chance. Mr. Jiffin, dashing his apron anywhere, tore across.
The truth was, and it is to this cause that we must trace the present disorganised state of the Court, and indeed of the Duchy, that the Grand Duke had secretly married a lady to whom he had long been attached.
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