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New interests, new rivalries and loyalties had arisen in which I had no share; I must perforce busy myself with invoices of flour and coffee and canned fruits while sleigh rides and coasting and skating expeditions to Blackstone Lake followed one another day after day, for the irony of circumstances had decreed a winter uncommonly cold.
Two feelings were roused in him, anger at Sarah for hiding the cause of her weakness, and pride that he was going to be a father. He a father! This title gave him an importance which, as it were, supported his titles of commander and viceroy. Father! that did not mean a stripling who must look perforce with reverence on older people. He was roused and enraptured.
But let us sit and enliven a proper dinner with talk upon topics of legitimate interest and genuine propriety. Here will be no discussion of the vulgar matter of markets, staples, and prices, such as we perforce endured through the overwined and too-abundant repast of Higbee.
How will the study of bugs, no matter how remarkable the bug, be of benefit to the average man? What I mean is, your burning zeal your really bitter disappointment a minute ago seem a bit out of place. A bit well, exaggerated don't you know." Denny halted; and Jim, perforce, stopped, too. Denny's dark eyes burned into Jim's blue ones. "How does it affect practical living?
We dreaded that we should wake too sore to ride, perhaps too sore to mount, perhaps even too sore to get out of bed. But, while stiff and in great pain, we managed to breakfast and get away. That day we, perforce, rode with less abandon, though we both felt less discomfort after we warmed to the saddle.
After this even the luxury of sleigh-riding was perforce foregone, and Burnaby set out on horseback, with one servant, one guide, and a thermometer that registered between 70° and 80° below freezing point, to find Khiva across five hundred miles of pathless, trackless, silent snow. Two Cossacks riding along this route with despatches had just before been frozen to death.
There were still Rolfe and West and the Governor, Jeremy Sparrow and Diccon. My lord and I met, perforce, in the street, at the Governor's house, in church, on the river, in the saddle. If we met in the presence of others, we spoke the necessary formal words of greeting or leave-taking, and he kept his countenance; if none were by, off went the mask.
She did not think of her words while Miss Paynham continued mutely sketching. The silent ones, with much conversation around them, have their heads at work, critically perforce; the faster if their hands are occupied; and the point they lean to do is the pivot of their thoughts. Miss Paynham felt for Mr. Redworth.
But those are of a sturdy genus; they mean to live; they live, perforce, of the right to live; they will prove their right in a coming season, when some one steps near and wonders at them, and from more closely observing; gets to understand, learning that the significance and the charm of earth will be as well shown by them as by her tropical fair flaunters or the tenderly-nurtured exotics.
Felicity, having used up all the available cooking materials in the house, had to stop perforce; and she now determined to stuff two new pincushions she had been making for her room. We heard her rummaging in the pantry as we sat on the cool, spruce-shadowed cellar door outside, where Uncle Roger was showing us how to make elderberry pop-guns. Presently she came out, frowning.
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