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To tell you the honest truth, you look about ten years older than when I saw you last. Have you been having a bad illness or some serious trouble?" "Oh, dear no!" answered Ludwig. "Quite the contrary. I believe I am the very happiest fellow under the sun, for I am living a life of utterly ideal, Utopian love and bliss.
At one time it looked as if they would be more closely allied, for their parents had planned a marriage between Lieutenant Falkenried, as he was then, and Regine Wallmoden. The young couple seemed to understand one another fully, and everything stood on the happiest footing, when an event occurred which put an abrupt termination to all their plans.
It was the tibao, the happiest augury of success, for it came over the right shoulder of the victim. Hunsa, feeling that the moment to strike had come, rose carelessly, saying: "Give me tobacco." That was a universal signal amongst thugs, the command to strike. Even as he uttered the words Hunsa had slipped behind the merchant and his towel was about the victim's neck.
From the close of the Crimean War to his untimely death, at the beginning of the Civil War in America, was unquestionably the happiest as well as the most influential period in a life which was at once sensitive and upright.
And I can see them in their home, he standing by the fireplace in his old way it's winter there and looking down at Clare; and on the other side of the fireplace sits the sister of the Woman in the Morgue, waiting for the happiest moment in the lives of these two before her.
"When I was beginning to despair, and it seemed there would be no end it's come! She loves me! She owns it!" "Then do this for me: never say such things to me, and let us be friends," she said in words; but her eyes spoke quite differently. "Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people that's in your hands."
"I must look out for Dysart and the other man," he observed, "or they will think I have spirited you away. I am not the least tired. What a pretty scene it is, Miss Jacobi! Look at those children dancing under the elm trees." "They seem very happy," was her reply; but there was a sad expression in her eyes. "Certainly childhood is the happiest time in one's life. If it could only last for ever!"
I had a conviction that poor Wisi had passed her happiest days, and would never be light-hearted again; and I could not express my sorrow for Andrew. What would he say? He said nothing, not one word, but went about for several years like a shadow, and became more silent than ever, and had no longer the quietly happy expression that formerly distinguished him." "Poor fellow!" cried Max.
The invitation was the more acceptable because Sir Charles was no mushroom noble, and, in the schooldays which Gertrude now remembered as the happiest of her life, she had acknowledged that Jane's family and connections were more aristocratic than those of any other student then at Alton, herself excepted. Agatha had taken it by force, partly moral, partly physical.
Those months after he joined up, and until he was killed, were, I do believe, by far the happiest of his life. He always said they were." As he made no answer she went on: "I'll show you some of his letters if you like, and father will show you the letters that were sent to us afterwards." By now they had left the garden proper, and were walking down an avenue which was known as the Long Walk.
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