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You began to see, as you say, a wider and a sweeter world than you had known." She nodded now, endeavoring to smile. "Gentilhomme!" I heard her murmur. "So then I go on, Madam, and say we are the same. I am the agent of one idea, you of another. I ask you once more to choose. I know how you will choose." She went on, musing to herself. "Yes, there is a gulf between male and female, after all.
They marched along the road two and two, she beside her class with her simple cotton sunshade, her little thumb cocked up against its stem; and Phillotson behind in his long dangling coat, handling his walking-stick genteelly, in the musing mood which had come over him since her arrival.
Where he went abroad, his eyes whirled about, his body privily fenced, his hand ever on his dagger, his countenance and manner like one always ready to strike again. He took ill rest at nights, lay long waking and musing; sore wearied with care and watch, he rather slumbered than slept. Troubled with fearful dreams, suddenly sometimes started he up, leapt out of his bed and ran about the chamber.
'It is the kiss of death, she said 'it is welcome. The balmy air played through her waving tresses she put them from her face, and raised those eyes so tender, though so lightless to the sky, whose soft face she had never seen! 'No, no! she said, half aloud, and in a musing and thoughtful tone, 'I cannot endure it; this jealous, exacting love it shatters my whole soul in madness!
She rose and paced the room as men are apt to do in reflection, women rarely need such movement to aid their thoughts; her eyes were fixed on the floor, and one hand was lightly pressed on the palm of the other, the gesture of a musing reasoner who is approaching the close of a difficult calculation. At length she paused, fronting me, and said dryly, "Accept my congratulations.
As a solace, I had a long talk from my mother through the trumpet, which cheered and comforted me greatly, especially her confident promise that I should hear from papa even sooner than I had hoped. Over this I was musing when a strange thing happened. I was startled by the low tones of a familiar voice from the trumpet.
In cholera times a shed had been there set up to receive patients. When the need had gone by, it was pulled down, but ever since the ground where it stood has broken out in ghosts and demons and faeries. There is a farmer at H , Paddy B by name-a man of great strength, and a teetotaller. His wife and sister-in-law, musing on his great strength, often wonder what he would do if he drank.
Now, at that time, saith my author, Jesus preached about the lost sheep, the lost groat, and the prodigal child. And when he came to show what care the shepherd took for one lost sheep, and how the woman swept to find her piece which was lost, and what joy there was at their finding, she began to be taken by the ears, and forgot what she came about, musing what the preacher would make of it.
The smile still played about his mouth, but queerly. "It is a handsome offer," said John slowly, and laid the letter down. "Have you taken any decision?" "Father leaves it to me, as you know," Charles answered and paused, musing. "I suppose, now, ninety-nine out of a hundred would jump at it." "Assuredly." "Somehow our family seems to be made up of odd hundredths.
Charles Rambert sat silent for some minutes, musing on the odd chance of destiny which required him to make his own return to normal life contingent on the arrest of a mysterious criminal, who was merely suspected, and had never been seen nor discovered. "What do you advise me to do?" he asked presently. The detective got up and began to pace the room.
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