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If strangers could feel in that way, if the mere hardened executioner could be melted at the final scene, it may be judged to what a fierce and terrific height would ascend the affliction of a doating mother, constitutionally too fervid in her affections.
Before these storm-tossed Saints lay the fair and pagan country of Provence, the scene of their future mission; and if tradition is to be further believed, each went his way, to work mightily for the sacred cause.
During this conversation they had been galloping rapidly toward the scene of the catastrophe, and, absorbed in their thoughts, not another word was spoken until they gained the first rise, from which they had been accustomed to see the pleasant house of the Mercers.
This is the language of M. Flaubert. Now, if you please, we come to another scene, that of the extreme unction. Oh! Mr.
The houses had no wakefulness, they were but seen to stand, and the light was a revelation of emptiness. Susan's heart was cunning to reproach her duke for the difference of the scene she beheld from that of the innocent open-breasted land. Yes, it was dawn in a wicked place that she never should have been allowed to visit. But where was he whom she looked for? There!
The scene that followed need not be described. Soon the confusion became fearful. The few sober chiefs were constantly risking their lives in their efforts to prevent mischief. Squaws were screaming, and frightened children were hiding in every direction. Tom, who was half forgotten in the general excitement, saw Po-no-kah whisper hurriedly to one of the women.
Minds that were not choked with their own activities would surely here have received impressions of beauty; but these two men were engaged in important conversation, and they only gave impassive heed to a scene to which they were well accustomed. They were talking about improvements and additions which Trenholme hoped to get made to the college buildings in the course of a few years.
He plays with two sportive spaniels, and cries "Down, Sir, down." Thy voice bewrayeth thee, member for North Galway! The Parnellitic Colonel Nolan, thou, in propriâ personâ. What makes he here? When the great Bill impends, why flee the festive scene? I'll speak a little with this learned Theban. I board him, as the French say.
The rustling heard at intervals, was but the fluttering of bright wings amid the foliage; or the rushing of some mountebank squirrel in reckless evolution among the branches sounds harmonising with the scene.
In the final scene of Sappho's suicide, the young composer surpassed himself, and struck a note of sensuous melancholy which was new to French opera. 'La Nonne Sanglante' , his next work, was a failure; but in 'Le Médecin malgré lui' , an operatic version of Molière's comedy, he scored a success.
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