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He sat down by the fountain; and the doctor, resting a mended boot on the end of the bench, leant on his bony knee, and looked down wistfully at John's thoughtful face, broad brow, and bright, intent eyes. "You are a very clever man, Mr. Crewys," he said humbly.
The doctor unlocked the drawer of the big table, and drew out a thick manuscript written in small and exquisitely neat characters. He placed it under the lamp, and rapidly began to turn the pages. "It is hope, Rob!" he said with quiet self-possession. Robert Cairn came round the table, and leant over his father's shoulder. "Sir Michael Ferrara's writing!" "His unpublished book, Rob.
How often she had heard him swear, in solemn vibrating tones, that to the day of his death his most sacred ambition should be their punishment, their abasement in the dust and mire! And now, all at once, as she looked up at him, where he leant against the mantel, these vagabond memories of hers took point and shape. It was about these very men that he was talking.
This the lieutenant felt most poignantly, and this was the reason he leant his head against the window, and sighed so deeply. "The poor watchman out there in the street is far happier than I. He knows not what I term privation. He has a home, a wife, and children, who weep with him over his sorrows, who rejoice with him when he is glad.
Direck leant against the table, wrapped in his golden pheasants, and appreciated the point. "Your young people dance very cheerfully," he said. "We all dance very cheerfully," said Mr. Britling. "Then this Miss Corner," said Mr. Direck, "she is the sister, I presume, is she? of that pleasant young lady who is married she is married, isn't she? to the young man you call Teddy."
He went on to the further drawing-room and made the same careful examination of it, again examining a part of the surface of the carpet with his magnifying-glass. He came back to the window to which the ladder had been raised and examined very carefully the broken shutter. He whistled softly to himself, lighted a cigarette, and leant against the side of the window.
He may live four months six, if we can get him to the South. More is impossible." There was something ghastly in her dry composure. Marcella caught her hand again and leant her trembling young cheek against it. "I could not live here without you, mamma!" Mrs. Boyce could not for once repress the inner fever which in general her will controlled so well.
As I leant to-day on my table plunged in silence, I suddenly remembered that the ancients of successive ages were placed in circumstances, in which they had to struggle for reputation and to fight for gain, but that they nevertheless acquired spots with hills and dripping streams, and, inviting people to come from far and near, they did all they could to detain them, by throwing the linch-pins of their chariots into wells or by holding on to their shafts; and that they invariably joined friendship with two or three of the same mind as themselves, with whom they strolled about in these grounds, either erecting altars for song, or establishing societies for scanning poetical works.
Helgi for the time had charge of the tiller, while Estein leant against the weather bulwark, busy with his new resolves. "A ship must cross the sea again," he repeated to himself. "The time for action is at hand, and we shall see what new freak fortune will play with me.
But that was different. Surely it was different. He was young and must make his own life. He must be allowed to marry whom he would. It was not as though he were intending to ruin the girl.... Nevertheless, this sudden comparison bewildered and shocked him. He leant across the table to her. "You must never leave father never," he said. "You mustn't think of it. He wants you badly.
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