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She stood at the top of the stairs looking down. He slowly clumped down the wooden treads, boiling with the amazing discoveries that he had said good-by to Istra, that he was not sorry, and that now he could offer to Nelly Croubel everything. Istra suddenly called, "O Mouse, wait just a moment." She darted like a swallow. She threw her arm about his shoulder and kissed his cheek.
Seldom is the brae empty, for many live beyond the top of it now, and men and women go by to their work, children to school or play. Not one of the children I see from the window to-day is known to me, and most of the men and women I only recognize by their likeness to their parents.
That it must be based on the science of nature in general, and on the science of human nature in particular, on a science that recognizes the double nature in man, that takes in, its heights as well as its depths, and its depths as well as its heights, that sounds it 'from its lowest note to the top of its key; but it is one thing to quarrel with the unscientific, imperfect social arts, and it is another to prefer nature in man without arts.
It might have been, she thought, that he was a great friend of Mr Westray, and had been sorry to think that his room should be littered and untidy as Mr Sharnall's certainly was, and so was glad when he found out his mistake. "Mr Westray's room is at the top of the house," she said deprecatingly. "It is no trouble to me, I assure you, to go up," he answered.
But not the less was there a feeling in the minds of those around her that some great change had come upon her. She would sit during the long summer evenings on a certain spot outside the parsonage orchard, at the top of a small sloping field in which their solitary cow was always pastured, with a book on her knees before her, but rarely reading.
He knew that something was trying to tempt him alone into the darkness and that the girl had never left the boudoir. He jumped back and in the same instant of time he heard the kiss again, nearer to him. He called out at the top of his voice: 'Mary, stay in the boudoir.
He is a man as will come up'ards, right side up, sir? Mr Chollop winked again at the other citizen. 'He should have his right side very high up, if I had my way, said Mark. 'As high up as the top of a good tall gallows, perhaps.
But not these, not even the great light-house, Pharos, built of blocks of white marble and so high that the fire continually burning on its top could be seen many miles off at sea the Pharos counted as one of the seven wonders of the world it is not these magnificent achievements of architecture that arrest our attention; the true, the most glorious monument of the Macedonian kings of Egypt is the Museum.
A second or two brought them to the obstacle, and sure enough it was no cold-blooded chance; a sheer nine foot drop into the dry bed of a stream, and opposite, with only a few yards interval, another sheer cliff, and on top of that an exulting and frenzied enemy!
Honest, sometimes I think I'd rather spend the summer under the daisies out on the hill than down here in this basement." "Don't I wish I had an auto to take you spinning in to-night." "You ought to see the flier a friend of mine has got. A Mercury Six with a limousine top like a grand-opera box." "Your your friend?" "Yes.
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