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The blue eyes were gazing at him with that wide, unafraid look as she answered sadly, "No, sir. I have tried, but I can't. They spoil my music. They hurt me, somehow, all over." Conrad Lagrange received her words with mingled emotions with pleased delight at her ingenuous frankness; with bitter shame, sorrow, and humiliation and, at the last, with genuine gladness and relief.
We've been like brothers, and I have been too proud of your record to be willing to sit by, quiet, and see you spoil the last round of the game. There is too much at stake." Weldon raised his brows. "What is at stake?" he asked coldly. "Your whole army record. Your manhood. Your " Carew hesitated; then he nerved himself to speak out plainly; "your love for Miss Dent."
What we most admire in the midst of all this activity is his perfect mental balance, his charity and humor in the strife of many sects. He was badgered for years by petty enemies, and he arouses our enthusiasm by his tolerance, his self-control, and especially by his sincerity. To the very end he retained that simple modesty which no success could spoil.
Many a terrible act was perpetrated in baggage-wagons during the retreat from Moscow. In these wagons, among the spoil taken from the capital, were placed the wounded, frequently unattended and without protection. Many of the drivers, anxious to possess some of the spoil with which their wagons were loaded, weakened the axle, so that it should collapse.
Indeed, I had drawn a crowd of grinning varlets to the door before my performance was over. But at length, when I thought I had done enough for their pleasure and that of the nobles in the salon, I dropped down on the floor and lay quiet, with shut eyes. "He has had his fill, I trow; we must not spoil him for the master," Pierre said. "Oh, he'll come to in a minute," another answered.
Pony brought his bread-and-butter the next day. Jim said he intended to bring some hard-boiled eggs, but his mother kept looking, and he had no chance. "Let's see whether the butter's sweet, because if it ain't the provisions will spoil before we can get off." He took a bite, and he said, "My, that's nice!" and the first thing he knew he ate the whole piece up.
Gower drew her face down and kissed it. "You are that," he said huskily. "You're all Gower. There's real stuff in you. You're free of that damned wishy-washy Morton blood. She made a poodle dog of Norman, but she couldn't spoil you. We'll manage, eh, Betty?" "Of course," Betty returned. "But I don't know that Norman is such a hopeless case.
A 50-mm will go six or eight feet into him before it explodes, and it'll explode among his heart and lungs and things. If it goes straight along his body, it'll open him up and make the cutting-up easier, and it won't spoil much wax. That's where I always shoot." "Suppose I get a broadside shot?" "Why, then put your shell right under the flukes at the end of the tail.
I am very hungry; pray, let me have something for supper as speedily as possible"; and our reporter proceeds to spoil his admirable picture by condescending upon "Mutton Chops and an Apple Pye." The six weeks allowed her to prepare for death were all too short for the correspondence and literary labours in which she presently became involved.
In short, the architect seems to have copied the dispositions of Santo Antão and has done his best to spoil them, and yet he has at the same time succeeded in making the interior look large, though with an almost Herrera-like clumsiness. The south front is even more like Santo Antão.
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