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Her physical forces have been silently recruiting themselves in the dreams which half lull, half amuse her imagination. Imagination! that faculty, the most glorious which is bestowed on the human mind, because it is the faculty which enables thought to create, is of all others the most exhausting to life when unduly stimulated and consciously reasoning on its own creations.
He did that because a great man to whom he had been presented on the platform at a public meeting had done so to him, and he knew it must be right. A little lull ensued upon the introductions, and Mrs. Corey said quietly to Mrs. Lapham, "Can I send any one to be of use to Miss Lapham?" as if Penelope must be in the dressing-room. Mrs.
It was December when Harold returned home to his parents, and for the next three months the lull before the storm continued. The disaffected of Massachusetts had collected a large quantity of military stores at Concord.
Dirk shrugged his shoulders again. "Do they?" he said. Her evident ignorance of the world made him good-natured. She was not trying to preach to him, he decided. A thing which Dirk hated, in common with all persons of his class. But the lull in the music had started conversation in other parts of the room. Dirk heard young Ried's question: "Mrs.
For a moment, their attention was distracted from the still raging horrors of the scene by the sense of relief from threatened danger. It was during this brief lull of intense anxiety and expectation, that our friends first became aware of the absence of Mr. Somers.
Like the child she was, Eustacie seemed to have put care from her, and to be solely taken up with the baby, and the amusement of watching the owl family. There was a lull in the search at this moment, for the Chevalier had been recalled to Paris by the fatal illness of his son-in-law, M. de Selinvine.
He should be able to bear exposure to rain, cold, heat, and wind, and watchful of the laches of foes. The king, O monarch, should be able to lull his foes into a sense of security. He should not, however, himself trust anyone. The reposing of confidence on even his own son is not to be approved of. I have now, O sinless one, declared to thee what the conclusions of the scriptures are.
The fire-waves mounted higher and higher, the roar of the fiery surges grew louder and louder. Then in a momentary lull, he put his arm round her, drew her close up to him and kissed her and said: "That's all we can do, dear. We've come too close and he's too strong for us." She returned his kiss and said quite steadily: "Well, at any rate, I'm with you, and it won't last long, will it?"
"Yes, yes; there is another terrible memorial!" cried the stranger. "But art thou now prepared to listen to a wondrous an astonishing tale such a tale as even nurses would scarcely dare narrate to lull children " "I am prepared," answered Agnes.
"To your well-earned promotion, Wentworth!" they chorused heartily. In the lull of drinking, Madden lifted his water to his friend. "Here's to the remittance man," he proposed solemnly, "who vanishes to-night and leaves a Man." Caradoc's long face was deeply moved as he looked into the eyes of the youth whose life Providence had so intimately entwined with his own.
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