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You kicked it apart and pulled out the kitten, but the kitten was dead and partly digested. You bawled all day and half the night about that." "I might have, I suppose." "You did. Now those are two centering points. There's other stuff connected with them. No need to go into details. As classes you've stepped now and then on things that squirmed or squashed. Bad smells. Etcetera.
I take such pleasure out of my friends' possessions as I can." "But you want to go to the seashore, I know you do. I've heard you say so," Honora protested. "I should like to see the open ocean before I die," admitted Aunt Mary, unexpectedly. "I saw New York harbour once, when we went to meet you. And I know how the salt water smells which is as much, perhaps, as I have the right to hope for.
A wave of heat broke from the pillar-stove and spread through the shop, strewing the heavier smells like a wrack behind it. And through it all, with every swing of the great mahogany doors, there stole into his young senses a something delicious and disturbing, faintly discernible as the Spring.
As he slowly paced the room to-day, thinking of this woman as his wife, light blue eyes and yellow hair and the unclean sweetness of jasmine-flowers mixed with the hot sunshine and smells of the mill. He could think of her in no other light. He might have done so; for the poor girl had her other sides for view.
He that complains of nature that she has not furnished mankind with a vehicle to convey smells to the nose had no reason; for they will do it themselves, especially to me; my very mustachios, which are full, perform that office; for if I stroke them but with my gloves or handkerchief, the smell will not out a whole day; they manifest where I have been, and the close, luscious, devouring, viscid melting kisses of youthful ardour in my wanton age left a sweetness upon my lips for several hours after.
Did you blame the boy for following? And were you very angry, indeed, about what happened, until you broke out laughing at his cravat, which had slipped around behind his ear? That was the first time he ever noticed how much sweeter the honeysuckle smells at night than in the day. It was his entrance examination in the school of nature human and otherwise.
Thus the smells of garlic and of onions, and even of assafoetida, are to many men among the most attractive and appetising in existence to very many they are, on the other hand, repulsive. Many animals revel in the smell and flavour of carrion, and even of manure, which they devour.
She was making automatically for the garret, like a somnambulist, with no definite object morbidly drawn towards the old home. The unchanging musty smells that clung to the staircase flew to greet her nostrils, and at once a host of sleeping memories started to life, besieging her and pressing upon her on every side.
Smiling faces are out of the question unless specially paid for; and as to that matter of foul smells, there is often room for improvement. An English inn to a solitary traveler without employment is an embodiment of dreary desolation. The excuse to be made for this is that English men and women do not live much at inns in their own country.
A paper which finds itself in a tight place asks him for one of his bears revised by his friends. This has been retouched and revamped every five years, so that it smells of the pomatum of each prevailing and then forgotten fashion.
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