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She held the key a small brass key between her finger and thumb, meditating. Presently she went to the window, opened it, and looked out. Beneath, a little to one side, stood a huge black water-butt, half buried in the earth, and partly full of rain-water, contributed by the tin spout whose mouth opened above it. Into this butt Abbie dropped the key.

Thus meditating and dining counting on her fingers twice over the fair actresses who had become titled ladies, and enviously disbelieving she would join that triumphant company Susan was still seated at the table some time later when the soldier glanced in.

Thus, for want of meditating Nature of considering her under her true point of view of remarking the conformity of noticing the simultaneity, the unity of the motion of this fancied motive-power with that of his body of his material organs he conjectured he was not only a distinct being, but that he was set apart, with different energies, from all the other beings in Nature; that he was of a more simple essence having nothing in common with any thing by which he was surrounded; nothing that connected him with all that he beheld.

When he spoke there was extreme depression in the tones of his voice, his dark features wore an air of melancholy, and he exhibited all the appearance of a person meditating to escape from the miseries of this life by the most desperate of all acts suicide.

The "diabolical villain" raised his disengaged hand in deprecation and withdrew, carrying the cup of tea in the other. "And now, Ishmael, take yourself off, and leave me in peace. I hate you! and I loathe the whole human race!" Ishmael left the stateroom, meditating on the demoralizing nature of seasickness. He next visited Mr.

Meditating upon the fate of this ill-starred red man, I communed with mine own inner consciousness. I asked myself the question: "Did you, Fibble, emulate the example of that despondent Indian youth and leap headlong from this peak, who in all this careless world other than your Great-Aunt Paulina would bemoan your piteous end?

In the last he declares that "when he had written from Canusium he had not dreamed that Pompey was about to cross the sea. He had known that Pompey had intended to treat for peace for peace even under unjust conditions but he had never thought that Pompey was meditating a retreat out of Italy." He argues well and stoutly, and does take us along with him.

Still I am very willing to admit that my special mania can be very capitally gratified in Paris, and I am meditating a little trip there for the purpose.

I told you that I was going to marry Miss Shellington and not even that damned brother of hers can prevent it!" For a long time after Everett had left the hut Lon sat meditating over what he had heard. He wondered if Everett really loved Ann, and, if he did, how he could wish for Flea.

Now come on deck, and I will introduce you to your brother officers for I consider you one of this ship, and I will try and make a seaman of you. "I was meditating, while he spoke, whether I should fly at him, and endeavour to wreak the bitter vengeance I felt at the moment; but the oath I had just uttered came to my mind, and for my sister's sake, by a violent effort, I restrained my passion.