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Her only consolation was that she expected to suffer intensely; for the prospect of suffering was always, spiritually speaking, so much cash in her pocket. Tarrant, as we have seen, desired to do her honour by inviting another guest.

But presently the warmth stole along his cold, dead nerves so that he became intensely alive from head to foot, and strangely exalted. And when they offered him food he ate eagerly and talked. It seemed to him there had been a thousand matters that he had long wished to speak of; matters of moment in which he felt deeply; yet on which he had strangely neglected to touch till now.

"Uncle Rik, I do," said Robin, with intensely earnest eyes and glowing cheeks. "Bravo! Robin, you'll do it, I do believe, if it is to be done at all; give us your hand, lad." The old sailor's red countenance beamed with a huge smile of kindness as he shook his enthusiastic nephew's hand. "There," he added, "I'll not say another word against iron kettles or Atlantic cables.

When she sees that he has fallen deeper than ever before, how the dear mother heart only loves him the more intensely through all the wretchedness! Does not the Scripture say, "If He gave His life for us, we are bound to give our life for the brethren?"

I had known his habit of seeking such books for two years, and had half wondered at it and half sympathised. It was an appetite partly satisfied by almost any work that brought to him the vision of a place in the mind which he had always intensely desired, but to which, as he had then long guessed, and as he is now quite certain, no human paths directly lead.

"Cousin Hester," he said at length, "I am about to talk to you very strangely to conduct myself indeed in a very peculiar manner. Can you imagine a man rendering himself intensely, unpardonably disagreeable, from the very best of motives?" It was a speech very different from any to be expected of him. That he should behave oddly seemed natural not that he should knowingly intend to do so!

At the end of six months he was so changed that, even to his own family, he was scarcely like the same individual. All the time he appeared thinking intensely. As to "Woodbine Lodge," its beauties no longer fell into thought or perception. The charming landscape spread itself wooingly before him, but he saw nothing of its varied attractions.

which gave many hearts a pang when they picked up the newspaper last Sunday morning. Joyce Kilmer died as he lived "in action." He found life intensely amusing, unspeakably interesting; his energy was unlimited, his courage stout. He attacked life at all points, rapidly gathered its complexities about him, and the more intricate it became the more zestful he found it.

'In her position, Carmina, and with her intensely cold and selfish nature, there is no fear of her attempting to reach her ends by violent means. Your happiness may be in danger and that prospect, God knows, is bad enough. "When she talked of my happiness, I naturally thought of Ovid. I asked if there was anything about him in the Will.

One passes through arcades of waiting motor vans, through arcades of waiting motor vans, through suburbs still more intensely khaki or horizon blue, and so out upon the great straight poplar-edged road to the front.