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She put her elbows on the table and, resting her chin in her hands, looked me straight in the eyes. "And do you, sir, here, alone with me, still have the effrontery to maintain that I am not your wife?" she asked. "It's not necessary," said I, "for you know it quite as well as I do." She shrugged her shoulders. "You're a good bit of a brute, Armand." "And you're a " I began quickly then stopped.
"It is clear that in so doing you would become the most popular man in the country, clear that you would be summoned back to power on the shoulders of the people. No new Cabinet could be formed without you, and your station in it would perhaps be higher, for life, than that which you may now retain but for a few weeks longer. Has not this ever occurred to you?"
Yet she was not of the coarse peasant type, though her cheeks were so rosy as to cause her great heaviness of heart on Sunday mornings, and her blue lawn dress was as full as it could afford from shoulders to waist.
"He said that?" "Damn him! Yes." "But that was an insult!" The poor woman was pale with surprise and dismay. She stared breathlessly upon her husband. "Didn't you show him you felt it was an insult, William?" William moved his huge shoulders. "What do you think?" "Tell me what you said to him." "I swore at him for ten minutes.
THERE is a story, in Max Muller's amusing reminiscences, of how Mendelssohn and David once played, in his hearing, Beethoven's later sonatas for piano and violin, and of how they shrugged their shoulders, and opined the old man had not been quite himself when he wrote them.
As the next in age to Pamela, though so many years lay between them, a hundred petty cares fell on her girlish shoulders, and tried her patience greatly with their weight, sometimes. And in the hard family struggle for everyday necessities there was too much of commonplace reality to admit of much poetry.
"Well, I guess your big thighs and broad shoulders can stand it," said he. "My uncle has always said that no man could be called a hunter until he can go into the woods without a guide and kill a deer and bring it out on his back. I want to be able to testify that I am at least partly qualified." "Your uncle didn't say anything about fetching the deer across a deep river without a boat, did he?"
Floyd followed her movements with an anxious glance. At the window Harriet turned and stamped her foot. "Do you think I'm going to bed when I don't know oh, my God, I can't bear it! I can't bear it!" She suddenly approached her bewildered mother, put her hands on her shoulders, and turned her face to the light. "You hear me, mother?
Among the ornaments of Tars Tarkas' leather harness, which is the only manner of clothing worn by Martians other than silk capes and robes of silk and fur for protection from the cold after dark, was a small mirror, about the bigness of a lady's hand glass, which hung midway between his shoulders and his waist against his broad back.
I told your father that I should regard you in the light of a son, and I do so regard you, and as a son of whom I have every reason to be proud. "I need no thanks, my lad. I am still, and shall always remain, your debtor. You have very much more than fulfilled my expectations, and I shall be glad to place some of the burden of my business upon your shoulders.
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