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Lavender, whose whole body was aching from his fall; "it is my public life which tries me." "Well, then, I should chuck it," said the policeman. "Really?" murmured Mr. Lavender eagerly, "would you?" "Why not?" said the policeman. So excited was Mr. Lavender by this independent confirmation of his sudden longing that he took out half a crown.
Longing as he was for the chance to distinguish himself in any attack upon England, he controlled his eagerness and consented that the Dutch should have the undertaking all to themselves. Poor Wolfe Tone had to wait and look on all this time, eating his own heart, according to the Homeric phrase.
There could have been nothing like it since the Tower of Babel. The country around her was a vast tract of men sick with longing for the four corners of the earth. "Have you got to be here?" asked an American. "No, I wanted to come." The eye of the American said "Fool!" "Are you paid to come here?" asked a Frenchman. "No. In a sense, I pay to come." The eye of the Frenchman said, "Englishwoman!"
The tragic necessity for occupation, for interesting herself in something sufficient to take her out of herself, she now understood, and the deep longing for the love of all she had of kith and kin was steadily tightening its grip on her, increasing day by day. Nothing else could take its place; she began to understand that; not her intimacy with Kathleen, not even her love for Duane.
No sooner had this little plan shaped itself in his mind than he began to be busy with exact calculations about the wood to be bought and the particular article of furniture that should be undertaken first a kitchen cupboard of his own contrivance, with such an ingenious arrangement of sliding-doors and bolts, such convenient nooks for stowing household provender, and such a symmetrical result to the eye, that every good housewife would be in raptures with it, and fall through all the gradations of melancholy longing till her husband promised to buy it for her.
She closed her eyes, yielding for one breathless instant to the passion of his embrace. Her dream and her longing melted swiftly into realisation, and she told herself that the agony of joy was sharper than that of grief.
"Found out what?" he asked half sadly that he did not understand. "Found out how God hides us. Found what a friend Jesus Christ can be." "You are just the same," said the man with satisfaction in his eyes. "You have not been changed nor spoiled. They could not spoil you." "Have you found out too?" she asked softly. She looked up into his eyes with wistful longing.
There were a dozen pretty little speeches she had been longing to make, but it was impossible to deliver them when Elsie was sitting there, listening with all her ears, ready to repeat them to a schoolroom audience, or even commit them to the surer testimony of her diary.
So you will understand the longing there is in our hearts to once again be free to be able to go to work and earn our daily bread!
And the lady glanced toward the spot where 'Lena sat, admiring the new things, in which she had no share, and longing to ask the question which Anna had asked for her, and which had now been answered. John Jr., who was present, and who knew that Mr.
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