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I never saw that done before. I reckon you must have some kind of mesmerism about you." "Not a particle more than you have. However, I should like to believe in my power to help her. In fact, I do believe that. It is really a question of her own will. The old idea of some subtle physical force or fluid passing from the operator to the subject is no longer held.
"He surely had not threatened to expose her?" "I do not think he had. My own belief is that she became madly jealous of Lady Blanche, and at the same time, fearing the exposure of her secret to the woman to whom her lover had become engaged, she took the subtle means of silencing him. Besides " And he paused without concluding his sentence. "Besides what?"
He who had beaten the strong lion had been overcome by the subtle snare of a spider's thread. Once there was a cat, and a parrot. And they had agreed to ask each other to dinner, turn and turn about: first the cat should ask the parrot, then the parrot should invite the cat, and so on. It was the cat's turn first. Now the cat was very mean.
He decided after due thought that a roundabout way would best serve Cowperwood's ends, a line of subtle suggestion from some seemingly disinterested party.
Most of the girls will say they dress to please women; and the reason I ask you to watch their faces is that you may see the subtle changes going on by which they persuade themselves that they are telling the truth. Women nice, sweet women, the kind we know seldom tell a real untruth. But they have a way of persuading themselves that what they are about to say is the truth.
When these crystals are warmed, the detent is lifted, and an outflow of light immediately begins." How often subtle analogies in physical nature whisper interpretations of vexing psychological enigmas? Was Erle Palma an animated, human fluor-spar?
He's only an American, but he can show a clear descent bang down from Alfred the Great! I think the most exquisite, the most subtle and delicate pleasure I have ever experienced has been to see English people, people of yesterday, cheerfully patronizing him." "You've enlarged my sphere of knowledge," said Lady Blanchemain, grimly. "I had never known that there was blood in America.
The most ingenious of poets, the most subtle of divines, whose life had been spent in examining Man in the crucible of his own alchemist fancy, seems anxious to preserve to the very last his powers of unflinching spiritual observation. The Dean of St.
"Indeed," she said, with a subtle inflection of tone which should have warned him. But he was engaged in drawing down his cuffs. Many young men would know more of the world if they had no cuffs or collars to distract them. "Yes," answered Roden; "if I had gone to the concert it would not have been for the music." Percy Roden's method of making love was essentially modern. He threw to Mrs.
He is an almost uncannily clever and subtle young person for his years, with a very large income and a fanatically devoted mother behind him, and he's had everything he ever wanted all his life except physical perfection, and my good Top Step." "Ah, yes, but what can he do, after all?" Honor's stepfather shrugged.
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