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He now felt coursing through his veins the lightness which all writers of his kind feel when they have labored on a work they believe good. "I have earned my evening," he added, still in a loud voice. "I must now dress and go to Madame Steno's. A good dinner at the doctor's. A half-hour's walk. The night promises to be divine.
When, after a full half-hour's run, the steamer skirted along the edge of the reefs, close in under the seaward face of the headland, the searcher at last lowered his binoculars, bitterly disappointed. "Not a trace not a trace!" he complained. "If they've been here, they've either gone inland or we're too late! Six weeks starvation fever!" Meggs shook his head reassuringly.
Hot bottles, and hot flannels, and hot bricks were all applied, but in vain; and when I saw hot brandy, too, fail of having the desired effect, I gave my friend up as lost, and left the hut to vent my grief in the open air. Grace was more sanguine and persevering, and when I returned, after a half-hour's absence, I could distinctly feel a returning pulse.
Will you join me, in a half-hour's silent consideration of the scenes that are now taking place in old St. Gudule? I am sure there is no limit to the imagination when we give over our thoughts to that subject."
I do not believe that he knew, after a half-hour's conversation with me, whether I was man or woman. That was defeat number one." "And what was number two?" Amelie was now thoroughly interested in Angelique's gossip. "I left the dry, unappreciative philosopher, and devoted myself to charm the handsome Colonel Philibert.
"You had better give me the half-hour's grace, though, in case I might be held up at the last moment. One never knows and Avice and Wilfred are excellent little watchdogs." "Anyhow, you won't have the she-dragon to reckon with, and that's a big thing," Bob said. "I don't see how you can have any trouble Papa certainly will not give you any." "No, he won't bother," said Cecilia slowly.
He spread his books on the table, resolved to do a half-hour's stuffing before supper. But his thoughts wandered far from lessons. The scrap in the corridor, Penny's unexpected ferocity, the afternoon's practice, the folks at home, all these subjects and many others engaged his mind. Beyond the wall on one side Penny was scraping busily on his violin.
Nevertheless, when they reached the cabin, after an half-hour's buffeting with the storm, Miss Alice applied herself to her mother's escort, Mr. Ryder. "What's the name of the man who takes care of my horse?" "Stanislaus Joe," responded Mr. Ryder. "Is that all?" "No. Sometimes he's called Joe Stanislaus."
Altogether the firmament looked black for Nicholas Long, notwithstanding her half-hour's ardour for him when she saw him dancing with the dairyman's daughter. Most great passions, movements, and beliefs individual and national burst during their decline into a temporary irradiation, which rivals their original splendour; and then they speedily become extinct.
Several days later I got the same story from The Young Pole in French; but after some little difficulty due to linguistic misunderstandings, and only after a half-hour's intensive conversation. So far as directness, accuracy and speed are concerned, between the method of language and the method of The Zulu, there was not the slightest comparison.
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