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She cared so much for the work at the library that she would have paid for the privilege of doing it; and she had come so well provided with all the accessories of clothing that she hadn't even to buy gloves for another year. Looking forward, she began to speculate on the possibility of starting anew after finances were once straightened out.
None but those who have heard M. de Talleyrand converse can form an accurate idea of his easy manner of expressing himself, his imperturbable coolness, the fixed unvarying expression of his countenance, and his vast fund of wit. When old he gave this counsel to one of his proteges: "Do not speculate.
From that point he began to speculate on the loneliness of personality, which so often robs its owner of the cheery companionship of commonplace people. On the whole, he regretted that he was going to see her again so soon.
That way we'll both have a complete record for analysis." "What is the space object?" Rick asked. Winston shook his head. "We don't know. It's too early even to speculate much. Can you make the duplicates?" It was early evening. "We can get sandwiches at the Mena House and work until we're finished," Rick replied. "That will get us home before midnight.
Such a scientific analysis would, I think, be an immodest discourtesy towards any lady of my acquaintance, especially towards one for whom I bear considerable affection. It would be as unwarrantable for a decent-minded man to speculate upon her exact spiritual dimensions as upon those portions of her physical frame that are hidden beneath her attire.
Now of course she must post it herself no allowing it to lie on the hall-table with old Martha to finger it and the aunts to speculate upon it and finally challenge her with its destiny.
There is a sort of arbitrium between life and death, in actual conflict in the poor girl's mind, that renders her an interesting study to a philosopher. Mr. Thornton, I'm at your service, now; we can just look at the arm in the next room, while we speculate as much as we please on the operations and sinuosities of the human mind."
It's one thing to speculate and run gold mines that don't pay in British Columbia, but quite another to turn one's pet and most exclusive territory into 'a condemned, dividend-earning, low-caste, industrial settlement, by Gad, sir! Cut down the Green Mountain bluff, smoke out beast and bird, plant a workman's colony down in Carrington!
She was playing the prelude to one of the evening hymns, when the lover, whose features she dreaded to be once more forgetting, appeared in the curtained enclosure. A stoppage in the tune, and a prolonged squeal of the instrument, gave the congregation below matter to speculate upon.
But it was no time to speculate, with a load of lumber grinding into his sore shoulder, so Bruce hurried on across the slippery foot-log and up a steep pitch to see the carpenter charging through the brush brandishing a saw as if it was a sabre. "I want my 'time," he shouted when he saw Bruce. "Him or me has got to quit. I won't work with that feller I won't take orders from the likes o' him!
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