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If only she had confided in him her old and tried friend he thought he could have put things before her, so as to influence without offending her. But he suffered had always suffered from the jealous reserve which underlay her charm, her inborn tendency to secretiveness and intrigue. Now, as he watched her few words with Warkworth, it seemed to him that he saw the signs of some hidden relation.
They were simpleminded women, of great and sincere piety, who imagined that good example and religious teaching might have a happy influence on their young relation. The result was contrary to their expectation: the sole fruit of their teaching was that Derues learnt to be a cheat and a hypocrite, and to assume the mask of respectability. Here also repeated thefts insured him sound corrections.
He had begun the afternoon by taking down from their places the various works in his meagre library which bore more or less relation to the task in hand. Perhaps it was the sight of these half-filled shelves which started this day's great revolution in Theron's opinions of himself. He had never thought much before about owning books.
"I can guess what his business is, however," said Mrs. Jennings exultingly. "Can you, ma'am?" said almost every body. "Yes; it is about Miss Williams, I am sure." "And who is Miss Williams?" asked Marianne. "What! do not you know who Miss Williams is? I am sure you must have heard of her before. She is a relation of the Colonel's, my dear; a very near relation.
Thoughts came up into his mind, as thoughts will in the silence of the desert; memories of other times and places, a word here, a scene there, having no relation to the matter in hand; and then one flashed up like the premonitions of the superstitious a verse from the Bible that he had learned at his mother's knee many years before: "Crying, Peace, Peace, when there is no peace."
I found Clifton in the parlour. His look was more composed, more complacent, and remarkably more thoughtful than it had lately been. I began with stating that the feelings of my heart required every act, every thought of mine, that had any relation whatever to him, should be fully and explicitly known.
This is remarkable, considering that a sailor's female acquaintances are usually and exclusively of the worst kind, and that his intercourse with them has no relation whatever to morality or decency. For this very reason, I suppose, he regards a modest woman as a creature divine and to be reverenced.
Soon the eminent Austrian will have the pleasure of seeing a half-dozen schools that have split off from his own, followers of Bleuler, Jung, Adler and others. There IS a subconsciousness in that much of the nervous activity of the organism has but little or no relation to consciousness.
A few old men, makating, are thought to be able to address the spirits with greater probability of success than the others; but they do not stand in the same relation to the spirit world as do the mabalian of the Bagobo. The nearest approach to that class is a group of women known as lokEs , who act as midwives and make use of roots and herbs in curing sickness.
She had evidently made up her mind that Louis had taken me there with the object of meeting Tapilow, and for some reason the truth was interesting to her. "It was a quarrel about a woman, of course," she murmured, "the friend of monsieur, or perhaps a relation. I am jealous! Tell me, then, that it was a relation."
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