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If Bernadette had been suppressed none of those things would have existed, the extraordinary story would have relapsed into nothingness, old unknown Lourdes would still have been plunged in the sleep of ages at the foot of its castle.
At this they all went off with silent handshakes. Nicholas Barthes alone remained in the house and slept in a room on the first floor which Sophie had got ready for him. Pierre, unwilling to quit his brother, dozed off upon a sofa. And the little house relapsed into its deep quietude, the silence of solitude and winter, through which passed the melancholy quiver of the souvenirs of childhood.
The man's teeth were clenched, rage and pain distorted his face, rendering his sightless stare a hideous thing. "Yes," he went on, but now more to himself, "I returned home to that, and in time to hear the last words your mother uttered in life; in time to feel feel her death-struggles." He mouthed his words with unmistakable relish, and relapsed into silence. Diane fell back with a bitter cry.
That sort of thing used to be confined to the Board of Trade, but now it's everywhere, in legitimate business. People don't seem to be willing to work hard for success." He relapsed into silence, and shortly after went upstairs, saying as he excused himself, "Hope we shall see you again, Dr. Sommers."
In the flourishing days of the Egyptian empire, the waters of the Nile were carried over important districts cast of the river. In later ages, most of this territory relapsed into a desert, from the decay of the canals which once fertilized it.
"Eh, man, that was a gran' fight, yon!" it hiccoughed, then relapsed into dignity and Hindustani. "What a battle we have had, sahib! What a victory we have won!" "We, indeed!" said Charteris, releasing himself with strong disgust. "General Desdichado, I suppose?" But the General, apparently unconscious of his momentary lapse of memory, was not responsive to English.
Her mother relapsed into thoughtfulness, and they finished their meal with little conversation. Mrs. Heed was just rising from the table, when there was a sound of some one opening the gate before the house; she looked to the window, and at once uttered an exclamation of astonishment. 'Well! If that isn't ! He hasn't altered a bit all these years! 'Who is it, mother? Emily asked nervously.
Well, so do I, unless you've been shut up in solitary confinement for the last fifteen years. Blow me tight, but the man that hadn't heard of Mr. Jack Harkaway, would be a living curiosity." "Jack Harkaway the owner of this ship!" Hunston murmured, like one in a dream, and relapsed into silence once more. No wonder that he had seen that vision.
Their activity covered a very varied ground, from the mere commonplaces of literature to the most practical details of material production. If they now and then relapsed into inquiries about the laws of Crete, they more often discussed positive and scientific theses, and rather resembled our chambers of agriculture than bodies of more learned pretension.
And here he relapsed into another explosion. "Methodist parson! I really don't know what you mean, sir," cried Frank, beginning to get fairly exasperated. "You seem to me quite to forget yourself. If you don't know better manners, the sooner you take yourself off the better." "Oh, sir, I'm very sorry, but really you must excuse me; it did seem so very comical.
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