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The little frown-lines between the brows had gone, too, with the need of reading-glasses and work under electricity. She was more rounded, and her look was less intent. The strained Liberry Teacher look was gone. The luminous long blue eyes in the glass looked back at her girlishly. "Would you think we were twenty-five even?" they said. Phyllis smiled irrepressibly at the mirrored girl.
"Not till the doctor says you're strong enough to move." "I won't if you'll come and see me every day," he answered irrepressibly. So every afternoon she brought a book or her sewing, and sat by him, letting Phil storm about it as much as he liked. These were happy hours. Neither spoke of love, but the air was electrically full of it.
In that safe in your library. News of this kind moves like lightning. At this very moment, there may be people watching for a chance of getting at the stuff." Every nerve in Mrs. Pett's body, every cell of a brain which had for years been absorbing and giving out sensational fiction, quivered irrepressibly at these words, spoken in a low, tense voice which gave them additional emphasis.
He bowed, still smiling, as if he saw something irrepressibly amusing in her presence there. "Yes," said Fanny to the smile. "Your successor." "I congratulate you, Miss Madden." "Don't be an ironical beast. She's just said she couldn't bear to think she'd done you out of your job." "Well, I couldn't," said Barbara. "That's very nice of you. But you didn't do me out of anything.
What was also, however, determined for her was, again, yet irrepressibly again, that the image presented to her, the splendid young woman who looked so particularly handsome in impatience, with the fine freedom of her signal, was the peculiar property of somebody else's vision, that this fine freedom in short was the fine freedom she showed Mr. Densher.
If this affair is fought to a finish you will feel like leaving your aunt's house." "I shouldn't have to wait for that feeling," said Robinette irrepressibly. "Aunt de Tracy would have it first!" "In such an event I could and would stand by you, naturally." "Would you?" cried Robinette glowing instantly like a jewel. Lavendar looked at her in amazement. "Pray what do you take me for?
I understand he's so shocked that he's bolted out of England" sneeringly. "Well, I'm not. I've come back to ask you to marry me." Ann quivered at his mention of Eliot's name, but with an effort she forced herself to answer him composedly. "I can only give you the same answer as before no, Brett." "Do explain why," he returned irrepressibly. "I don't care tuppence what people say.
But even when the minister's voice grew high and commanding,—when it gushed irrepressibly upward,—when it assumed its utmost breadth and power, so overfilling the church as to burst its way through the solid walls, and diffuse itself in the open air,—still, if the auditor listened intently, and for the purpose, he could detect the same cry of pain. What was it?
The Friedrich-Voltaire relation is evidently under sore stress of weather, in those winter-autumn months of 1752, brown leaves, splashy rains and winds moaning outwardly withal. And, alas, the irrepressibly electric Voltaire, still far from having ended, still only just beginning his Anti-Maupertuis discharges, has, in the interim, privately got his DOCTOR AKAKIA ready.
The adjectives came rolling out irrepressibly. "Perhaps he is," Aurora said serenely; "but haven't you noticed, Stickly-prickly, that about some things you and I don't feel alike? Italo plays the piano in a way that perfectly delights me, he's good-hearted, and he makes me laugh. Isn't that enough?" "In short, you like him. You like so many people, Mrs.
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