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She lived vividly though her far-projected sensations, until truly pity for Wilfrid was active in her bosom, she feeling how he would yearn for her. The vengeance seemed to her so keen that pity could not fail to come. Thus, to her contemplation, their positions became reversed: it was Wilfrid now who stood in the darkness, unselected.

He had a keen, analytic mind, tireless industry, and a faculty for clarifying difficulties and untangling apparently impossible problems to a degree that amounted to genius. In reference to what had happened, I said to a friend: "Mr.

"Ain't sick or nothin', is she?" "Not that anybody knows of. Don't expect her to be here to gass with you every time, do ye?" "Well, I wouldn't mind" replied Claude. He was too keen not to see his chance. "In fact, I'd like to have her with me all the time, Mrs. Kennedy," he said with engaging frankness. "Well, you can't have her," the mother replied ungraciously. "What's the matter with me?"

As she entered the door she passed a small, insignificant-looking man, plainly dressed, and of somewhat servile appearance, whom she remembered to have seen about the place several times since her arrival. He glanced at her in passing, and Virginia saw that his eyes, at any rate, were keen enough. She found her uncle, now fully dressed, walking up and down the room, with his hands behind his back.

He was a handsome man, if an old man near to seventy may be handsome, with grey hair, and bright, keen eyes, and arched eyebrows, with a well-cut eagle nose, and a small mouth, and a short dimpled chin. He was under the middle height, but nevertheless commanded attention by his appearance. He wore no beard save a slight grey whisker, which was cut away before it reached his chin.

For a moment Filmer looked at his visitor with unseeing eyes, then his consciousness travelled back from its far place, and a soft welcome spread over the drawn face. So glad was he to see Drew that he forgot to be patronizing. He was weakly overjoyed. Drew, with a keen, comprehensive glance, took in the scene and something of what it meant.

The white-bearded old man who was just then passing along the street turned to Mrs. Vane. "I shall be very happy to show the lady the house," he said half raising his felt hat from his white head with something like foreign politeness. And then he and Flossy exchanged glances which were hard and keen as steel. He knew her well by sight; but she did not recognise him.

Struck down like this at five and twenty! and he never was keen on indoor interests sport and his profession were all he cared about. Please, Lawrence, make allowances for him he had been looking forward so much to your coming here!

"And I must add, Monseigneur, that I came back with a light and hopeful heart. It now seems to me as if my suit were half gained." "Naturally, I understand it," replied Nani, who was still smiling with that keen, intelligent smile of his, sharpened by a touch of almost imperceptible irony. And the judgment will be laid before his Holiness, for him to sign it, on the day after to-morrow."

"However appearances may be against him, he has always proved a true friend of mine, and perhaps especially at a time when we suspected it the least. His keen eyes penetrated the future, and behind the clouds darkening our horizon he believed he could descry light and safety.