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I reeled off about twenty of them and sold them to advantage. It was a terribly dreary task, and I had moments of revolt when I stamped up and down my little flat and felt like throwing my resolution to the winds. But I stuck tight to the ink-bottle and fought the thing through. My novelette, strange to say, was good.
She shrieked, stamped her feet, and made a hideous uproar; the landlord came up, and she began to speak to him in English, while the blood gushed from her nose. The man fortunately spoke Italian, and told me that she wanted to go away, and advised me to let her do so, or she might make it awkward for me, and he himself would be obliged to witness against me.
He had had very little time previously in which to appreciate himself, so that there was now much satisfaction in quietly thinking of his actions. He recalled bits of color that in the flurry had stamped themselves unawares upon his engaged senses. As the regiment lay heaving from its hot exertions the officer who had named them as mule drivers came galloping along the line. He had lost his cap.
And their knowledge extended to fields where he could not follow. When he compared himself with Tommy Ashe well, Tommy was an Oxford man, and although Oxford had not indelibly stamped him, still it had left its mark. These people had covered all his ground and they had gone exploring further in fields of general knowledge while he sat gazing smugly at his own reflection in a theological mirror.
A dozen hands dragged the warrior from the fire and stamped out a blaze that had started in the fringe of one legging. Every man in the house was on his feet, shouting and screaming. Menard stood with his hands at his side, smiling, with the same look of scorn he had worn in the morning when they led him to the torture. Father Claude drew closer to the maid, and the two sat without moving.
This room was papered with rose-colored paper, stamped with a pattern in lace-work, with an Etruscan border. Opposite the-bedroom was a similar chamber, in which was a peculiar kind of telescope which had cost twelve thousand francs.
And when they asked for his photograph for a review, he stamped with rage and shouted that he was not, thank God! an emperor, to have his face passed from hand to hand. It was impossible to bring him into touch with influential people.
For a long time it seemed for hours that huge masquerade of mankind swayed and stamped in front of them to marching and exultant music. Every couple dancing seemed a separate romance; it might be a fairy dancing with a pillar-box, or a peasant girl dancing with the moon; but in each case it was, somehow, as absurd as Alice in Wonderland, yet as grave and kind as a love story.
He did not make the figure a ruler should as he sat in his easy chair, and whined and cursed his Swiss. He was scarce a year over forty, and he had all but run his race. Dissipation and corrosion had set their seal upon him, had stamped his yellow face with crows' feet and blotted it with pimples.
Sir John stamped his letters, brushed his hat, and carefully gave his moustache an upward curl before the looking-glass. "I really do not believe," he announced with satisfaction, "that any one would recognize me. What do you think, Annabel?" "I don't think they would," she admitted. "You seem to have cultivated quite a jaunty appearance, and you certainly look years younger.
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