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I do genuinely believe that a heaven of scratching, or at any rate of some analogous but intenser experience, would involve an indefinitely greater sum of pleasure than a heaven of scientific research." "Well, all I can say is, I don't agree with you." "But why not?" cried Leslie. "If you were candid I believe you would.
There can be no doubt that the objectionable and cruel legislation of the Southern States examples of which might be indefinitely cited in addition to those already given exerted a strong influence upon Mr. Seward's mind.
A legislative bill, which would go to the voters at the next election, received in the Senate, 27 ayes, 22 noes; 1 absent; in the House, 104 ayes; 1 no. Another bill introduced at this same session, providing that the question be submitted to a vote of the women, was passed in the Senate by 41 to 9 and indefinitely postponed in the House. Legislative Committee Mrs. Darrow, Mrs. Quain and Mrs.
He never could understand what defect of vision on his part made it seem as though the cat had duplicated itself at first, and then increased indefinitely, so that there were at least a dozen of them darting silently about the floor, leaping softly on to chairs and tables, passing like shadows from the open door to the end of the room, all black as sin, with brilliant green eyes flashing fire in all directions.
Felix clapped his hand to her mouth in wild haste, and silenced her. He knew the worst now. He had divined the truth. But Muriel, at least, must be spared that knowledge. Vaguely and indefinitely one terrible truth had been forced by slow degrees upon Felix's mind; whatever else Korong meant, it implied at least some fearful doom in store, sooner or later, for the persons who bore it.
However, he could not remain indefinitely under the funereal blackboard. "I must make a move," he thought. He moved on, his head swimming a little with the repressed desire of violence, and came out openly in front of the bungalows, as if he had just been down to the jetty to look at the boat. The sunshine enveloped him, very brilliant, very still, very hot. The three buildings faced him.
"He asked you," said the doctor, to make sure he had heard aright "he asked you advised you to go to work in a cotton-mill?" "No;" she lifted her face to confront him. "He told me not to go; but I said I would." They sat staring at each other in a silence which neither of them broke, and which promised to last indefinitely.
Morton, I hope you do not propose to keep up Eden customs indefinitely. It's time we returned to the world to which we belong." "Zillah!" called Mrs. Yocomb, and we saw her coming down the garden walk. "Bless me! where is the child!" I exclaimed. "When you began to soar into the realms of melodrama and forget the garden you had asked her to show you, she sensibly tried to amuse herself.
She was singing very little now, but a song would go through her head all morning, as a spring keeps welling up, and it was like a pleasant sensation indefinitely prolonged. It was much more like a sensation than like an idea, or an act of remembering. Music had never come to her in that sensuous form before.
He ended by compromising on both points. The repayment of the five hundred pounds was to be deferred indefinitely, the debt itself being absolutely cancelled in the meanwhile, but it was to revive if he should ever have the means to satisfy it. And also Helen was to be allowed to pay the theatrical liabilities, provided Cleo agreed to her doing so, though her identity was not to be divulged.
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