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Think of me when you sit down to dinner. Henceforward eight o'clock will probably be my bedtime. On the other hand I shall rise with the sun, or perhaps earlier. Think of me, but do not write too often. I must first settle down tranquilly to my new life.
The cord strangled his curses. Crugeot was executed at three in the morning, having obtained a few hours' respite in order to make his preparations, which he accordingly occupied himself in doing as tranquilly as if he had been setting forth upon an agreeable journey.
Moreover, it was a trap which he had not only entered voluntarily, but which he had set himself; he had played into the Prince's hands, and was frantic to see his adversary tranquilly winning the game. It was almost melancholy to observe the gradation of his tone from haughty indignation to dismal concession.
Her eyes were very wide, her brow intent and serious, and her delicate lips lightly parted. At that moment she bore a striking resemblance to the Botticelli head in Beulah's drawing-room that she had so greatly admired. Of all the people concerned in her history, she was the most tranquilly occupied. Peter in the room beyond was packing his trunk and his suit-case.
These feelings, he said, he had expressed fifty-two years before to three eminent professors of theology in whom he confided, and they had assured him that he might tranquilly continue in such belief without examining further. "And this has always been my creed," he said.
She does so love to make a beautiful black latticework bridge across a yawning white china sea and you'd think the safety of an army depended on the way each plank was laid, too," she concluded. Aunt Hannah smiled tranquilly, but she did not speak. "I suppose you don't happen to know if Cyril does wear big holes in his socks," resumed Billy, after a moment's silence.
Now, the long line of blue hills stands in bold relief against the hazy sky now, the hills fade away and are hid by thick masses of oak and evergreen. Here, the Potomac spreads her breast, a mirror to the heavens, toward its low banks, the broken clouds bending tranquilly to its surface.
When we see a monk with a book and a pen, looking tranquilly up to heaven, trying to think of a word, we know that that is St. Matthew. When we see a monk sitting on a rock, looking tranquilly up to heaven, with a human skull beside him, and without other baggage, we know that that is St. Jerome. Because we know that he always went flying light in the matter of baggage.
And he slowly drew out a fine cigar-case, picked one to his taste, lit it, took a book from the shelf convenient to his hand, then leaning back, proceeded to smoke and read as tranquilly as if he had been in his own room, in Grove-street, X -shire, England.
Annette departed while Aunt Mary came to the back door and looked out questioningly. "Great guns, Bess, where is Matt?" demanded Owen as he came around the house with his eyes and hair wild. "Where is Polly? she'll know!" I answered tranquilly. "I searched Mademoiselle Polly, and she is also not here," answered Annette, again running down the back stairs.
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