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Naturally, his mind busied itself with such vague knowledge as he had gathered of those places in the South of France, where rich English people go to escape their own climate: Nice, Cannes. He could not imagine himself setting forth to these regions.
A few the lucky or the talented, but mostly those with both luck and talent found other musical work well below stevedore's wages. Jurgen had tremendous talent but no luck, yet he could not imagine any other life than being a violist. He would not look for non-musical work everything was unsuitable, and certainly unattractive.
I agree with the old proverb, "Hope on, hope ever," you know. But tell me about Philippa? very happy, I suppose. 'Perfectly happy, replies Mabel. 'I can't imagine her as a wife, she's such a child, but Jimmy is sure to take great care of her, and she has come into some money by her mother's death.
The housekeeper shook her head, and said, "Poor thing! how soon children forget every thing!" I could not imagine what she meant by my forgetting every thing, for I instantly recollected poor mamma used to say I had an excellent memory.
If we ask the plain man, What is the real external world? the first answer that seems to present itself to his mind is this: Whatever we can see, hear, touch, taste, or smell may be regarded as belonging to the real world. What we merely imagine does not belong to it. That this answer is not a very satisfactory one occurred to men's minds very early in the history of reflective thought.
It is hateful to feel that there is nothing to be done, more hateful still that people should imagine you are beaten or are neglecting your work. Zena told me the professor had been out all day, but she did not know what business he was about. He was certainly not engaged in writing his article.
You cannot imagine how much the routing of this drunken parson pleased Mr. Pennington, who paid all charges munificently and thankfully. But now follows the last and greatest kindness I ever did him.
There is no man unless he had been present that can imagine or describe truly the confusion of that day; especially the bad management and disorder of the French, whose troops were out of number. The English were drawn up in three divisions and seated on the ground. On seeing their enemies advance they rose up and fell into their ranks.
The old gentleman derived a deep pleasure from such long scrutinies. It pleased him to imagine that, when he was young, he had possessed the same vigor, the same masculinity, the same capacity for persistent labor. Indeed, all old gentlemen are prone to choose the most personable and virile young man they can find for themselves to have been like. The two men had little to say to each other.
The Jeddak of Jeddaks was a great mountain of a man a coarse, brutal beast of a man and as he towered above me there, his fierce black whiskers and mustache bristling in rage, I can well imagine that a less seasoned warrior might have trembled before him.
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