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These were the last impressions I carried away from the scene of my first artistic efforts and of my attempts at earning an independent livelihood. Often since then on my departure from places where I had expected to find prosperity, and to which I knew I should never return, those impressions have recurred to my mind with singular persistence.
But I must have overestimated my intelligence, for I could gain no meaning whatever from the phrases which followed each other in rapid succession; though the words 'adoption, 'emancipation, 'dowry, 'compensation, 'reimbursement for sums expended, recurred again and again.
Consequently the primitive and natural amazement of man must have been great, when by day, and still more in the lonely silence of night, persons, places, and his own past acts recurred to his mind, and he was able to contemplate them as if they were actually present.
"You know I may never be heard of in science outside of a few partial contemporaries." His lip quivered with his wan smile. "That has really nothing to do with it," she asserted. "I think it has, Edna," he said simply. Then suddenly the remembrance of the conversation with his friend Randall recurred to him with vivid clearness.
I exclaimed, and endeavoured to conceal my emotion; for all that Adelin had mentioned to me yesterday recurred to me painfully at that moment. "Oh, how much it has already cost me!" said this amiable girl, while her eyes filled with tears. I could scarcely contain myself, and was ready to throw myself at her feet. "Explain yourself!" I cried. Tears flowed down her cheeks. I became quite frantic.
Rising up like a ghost to overshadow us and spoil our happiness? Let the house perish and all its traditions if it must be so, rather than that she should suffer! for she is innocent!" Yes she was quite innocent, the little "base-born" intruder on the unbroken line and history of the Jocelyns! and yet it was with a kind of horror that the memory of that unbroken line and history recurred to him.
I fear," he added, "that the mere execution of the sentence will no longer satisfy them, which might be dangerous in its consequences. Perhaps the police will provide against it." These reflections having recurred to Bailly's mind on the 12th, he asked for, and drank hastily, two cups of coffee without milk. These precautions were a sinister omen.
The memory of the serene purity of Miss Brundon's office recurred to him like a breath from the open spaces where he had first known the deep pleasure of an utter freedom of spirit.
As it recurred again and again, it set me thinking of what my architect's books say about the custom in early times to consecrate the choir as soon as it was built, and that the nave, being finished sometimes half a century later, often did not get any blessing at all: I wondered idly if that had been the case at St.
Nine years after San Francisco lay in ashes its doors opened to the world. From Ruins had grown a Great Dream, one so beautiful and strong, it seemed unreal. Aleta and Frank went often. To them the Exposition was a rhapsody of silent music and they seldom broke its harmonies with speech. Frank had not recurred to the question he had asked on Presidio Hill.
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