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"He is mine," thought he: "the very name of want abases his pride: what will the reality do? O human nature, how I know and mock thee!" "You are right," said Crauford, aloud; "let us talk of the pamphlet." And after a short conversation upon indifferent subjects, the visitor departed. Early the next morning was Mr.
Or, though he may in mercy return again and again, what if the eye gets blinded by the very light which it rejects? and the ear becomes so familiar with the voice, that it attracts attention no more than the winds that beat upon the wall; and the heart becomes so hardened as to be unimpressible, until the dread sentence is at last passed, "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
"Yes," said Mr. Lenox. "And now for item two. The horse. How would you go to work to get a horse, Kink?" "Well," said Kink, "that's a little out of my way. A horse radish, yes; but not a horse." Everyone laughed: the old man expected it. "Then," said Mr. Lenox, with a mock sigh, "I suppose the horse will have to be found by me. We don't want to buy one only to hire it."
Gudruda alone shall shear my hair: I have sworn and I will keep the oath that I once broke. Give me snow! snow! my throat burns! Heap snow on my head, I bid you. Ye will not? Ye mock me, thinking me weak! Where, then, is Whitefire? I have yet a deed to do! Who comes yonder? Is it a woman's shape or is it but a smoke-wraith? 'Tis Swanhild the Fatherless who walks the waters.
The older girl insisted that this was an affectation; for a while she tried to confuse Linda's knowledge; but finally, playing the airs of "Orpheus and Eurydice," she admitted that the latter was sincere. "They sound so cool," Linda said in a clear and decided manner. There was a man with them, and he shook his head in a mock sadness. "So young and yet so formal.
The features of the elder person exhibited a comic contrast between nature and habit between an expression of good humor, broad and legible, which no one could mistake for a moment, and an affectation of consequence, self-importance, and mock heroic dignity that were irresistible. He was a pedagogue.
It was on the occasion of one of these family gatherings that a contemporary saw him and wrote: "In mock complaint he exclaimed, 'How can I play the fiddle with two babies on each knee and three on my back!" So the years went by in work, play and gradually widening fame. Patrick Henry grew with his work the years gave him dignity gradually the thought of his heart 'graved its lines upon his face.
Robert threw up his hands in mock terror at the name and departed. 'We are abandoned, cried Rose, flitting herself into the chair again then with a little flash of half irresolute wickedness 'and we are free! Oh, I hope she will be happy! And she caught Agnes wildly round the neck as though she would drown her first words in her last. 'Madcap! cried Agnes struggling.
The indurated critical judgment of the academic forces pronounced Bonnat a greater portraitist than Velasquez, and Gérôme and his mock antiques and mock orientalism far superior to Fromentin and Chasseriau. It was a glorious epoch for mediocrity.
"Something splendid," he answered, with a mock serious face; "only I hope I have not been taken in. I bought her a shawl. The venders vowed it was true Parisian cashmere. I gave eighteen guineas for it." "That is a great deal," observed Mrs. Hare. "It ought to be a very good one. I never gave more than six guineas for a shawl in all my life."
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