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You may be sure I was in an agony over this desecration, which I was so powerless to prevent. But as I was thanking my stars that the matter had blown over with Bolingbroke's rejection, there occurred a most singular thing. The figure on the lounge, with vast difficulty, sat up. To our amazement we beheld the bloated face of the Duke of Chartersea staring stupidly.
Then I cam' back. Ye see, I kent where he was going." Foster made a sign of agreement, because it was obvious that Telford was going to the shack at the mine. He understood how the fellow had got out without his seeing him, since it is usual in Canada to have a separate entrance to a hotel bar and he had stupidly been satisfied with watching the hall.
It burned hard in him, burned away flesh and common passions; he must have been a restless, fervent man. You are calmer," he ended, stupidly. "Yes, you mean that his fire has burnt out; that I am weak as water, when he was strong." "No, not that, exactly," Thornton protested. "Yes, you did," she reiterated, sadly. "And it is so, too. I am generally so tired.
But Peter was himself so full of ambition and energy, and he had formed, moreover, such vast plans for the aggrandizement of the empire, many of which could only be commenced during his lifetime, and must depend for their full accomplishment on the vigor and talent of his successor, that he had set his heart very strongly on making his son one of the first military men of the age; and he now lost all patience with him when he saw him stupidly neglecting the glorious opportunity before him, and throwing away all his advantages, in order to spend his time in ease and indulgence, thus thwarting and threatening to render abortive some of his father's favorite and most far-reaching plans.
Bompain, the secretary, the steward, the man of confidence, through whose hands all the business of the establishment passed; and a single glance at that stupidly solemn face, that vague expression, that Turkish fez poised awkwardly on that village schoolmaster's head, sufficed to convince one what manner of man he was to whom interests like the Nabob's had been entrusted.
He ceased thinking, gave way to the feeling that God dealt hardly with him, and sat stupidly indulging a sense of grievance with self-pity, than which there is scarce one more childish or enfeebling in the whole circle of the emotions.
When Olenin was fifteen he gave Vanyusha lessons for a time and taught him to read French, of which the latter was inordinately proud; and when in specially good spirits he still let off French words, always laughing stupidly when he did so. Olenin ran up the steps of the porch and pushed open the door of the hut.
"Lewson Tom Lewson!" he cried. Charly thrust the man inside the tent, and when somebody lighted a lamp Lewson sat down stupidly and looked at them. His face was gaunt and almost blackened by exposure to the frost, his hair was long, and tattered garments of greasy skins hung about him. There was something that suggested bewildered incredulity in his eyes.
"'You see, she picked her words carefully, 'Ombos was so queer about that horrible Albertus Magnus of his. He had made me promise never to part with it and it seemed to me stupidly perhaps that I owed him that to see that his only wish was carried out to the letter. Otherwise I should never dare to have stayed here.
I remained at the White Horse only long enough to discover that it was an exceptionally good provincial inn, one of the best that I encountered during six weeks spent in these establishments. "Stupidly and vulgarly rnodernized," that is an- other phrase from my note-book, and note-books are not obliged to be reasonable.
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