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That is what my friend said to extenuate her. She fitted into this kind of life splendidly. He was in the other groove. She loved light, laughter, wine, song, and excitement. He, the misfit, loved his books, his work, and his home. His greatest joy would have been to go with her, hand in hand, through some wonderful cathedral, pointing out its ancient glories and mysteries to her.
Sowerberry rightly construed this, as an acquiescence in his proposition; it was speedily determined, therefore, that Oliver should be at once initiated into the mysteries of the trade; and, with this view, that he should accompany his master on the very next occasion of his services being required. The occasion was not long in coming. Half an hour after breakfast next morning, Mr.
"I wonder whether he has got any money." "Not a penny, I should say." "How does such a man manage to live? There are so many men like that, and they are always mysteries to me. I suppose he'll have to marry an heiress." "Whoever gets him will not have a bad husband," said Lady Laura Standish. Phineas during the summer had very often met Mr. Kennedy.
Such social sores the drayman, back bent to the Christmas box whose mysteries he must never know; the salesgirl standing on her swollen feet on into the midnight hour such sores may run and fester, but not to sicken public eyes. For the Christmas spirit is the white flame of love burning in men's hearts and may not be defiled.
However, the idea of the Great Unknown has, for its partisans, this advantage, that as the life of the august Shade is wholly unknown, we cannot, as in Bacon's case, show how he was occupied while the plays were being composed. He MUST, however, have been much at Court, we learn, and deep in the mysteries of legal terminology. Was he Sir Edward Coke? Was he James VI and I?
Whether these dreams and visions were the cause or effect of the people's sensitive state, I do not know; but certainly they were very impressible, and even the cold and hardened amongst them were ready to hear about the mysteries of the unseen world. I attributed this to the spiritual atmosphere in which they were then living. Billy Bray, 1852.
A respectable and thriving citizen and his wife had been for some years very unprofitably engaged in brooding over the mysteries of the Apocalypse, and in speculations upon the personal coming of Christ and the temporal reign of the saints on earth, a sort of Mahometan paradise, which has as little warrant in Scripture as in reason.
The chief accredited purveyors of it have been already named and must now be dealt with, to be followed by the list of secondary, never quite accomplished, exponents now of novel, now of romance, now of the two mixed, who filled the closing years of the eighteenth century. It is, however, unjust to put the author of The Mysteries of Udolpho and the author of The Monk on the same level.
It is among the heroes who have achieved distinction in grappling with the mysteries of nature and who have developed means for making life more useful and comfortable, that Colonel Whittlesey would have preferred taking position, rather than among those whose distinction comes rather of destruction than construction or production.
We can't go on this way, surrounded by perpetual puzzles, problems, mysteries! We must " "Do nothing but rest now!" she dictated with mock severity. Stern laughed. "Well, you're the boss," he answered, and leaned back against the oak. "Only, may I propound one more question?" "Well, what is it?" "Do you see that dark patch in the sky?
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