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Now, I have heard many preachers since that time not powerful; merely Christian, unaffected, and reverential and I have had many such preachers on my roll of friends. But, it was not to hear these, any more than the powerful class, that I made my Sunday journeys. They were journeys of curiosity to the numerous churches in the City of London.
But no matter what wonderful effects his ministry produced, he always regarded himself as most incapable of discharging his priestly duties as they should be performed. With unaffected sympathy did he speak of his "poor soul," his "poor corpse" his "poor sins" and his "poor misery," praying that God in His goodness would bear with them.
He especially praised the unaffected dignity with which she had received the mistress who had attended in her apartments to pay her court, though in no respect deceived as to the lady's disposition, her penetration into the characters of all with whom she had been brought into contact, denoting, as it struck him, "a sagacity" which, at her age, was "truly astonishing.
"My dear fellow, what on earth does this mean?" Glennard recognized his check. "That I was remiss, simply. It ought to have gone to you before." Flamel's tone had been that of unaffected surprise, but at this his accent changed and he asked, quickly: "On what ground?" Glennard had moved away from the desk and stood leaning against the calf-backed volumes of the bookcase.
He reentered the gateway, and quickly found the hall, a narrow, arched passage, whose black, tunnel-like shadows were absolutely unaffected by the vivid, colorless glare of the courtyard without, seen through an opening at the end. The contrast was sharp, blinding, and distinct; even the edges of the opening were black; the outer light halted on the threshold and never penetrated within.
Wynne, with the Duchess of A ? She was always a prodigious friend of the Elmours, as I remember. How is that? Are they any way related, I wonder?" "Yes; they are now related by marriage," said Mr. Wynne; "Mrs. Elmour is a niece of the duchess." "Indeed!" "She is a charming woman," said Mr. Wynne; "so beautiful and yet so unaffected so sensible, yet so unassuming." "Pray," interrupted Mrs.
He proved one of those rare creatures who pass through every stage of existence, as child, as schoolboy, as youth; through nursery, school, college, marked as some bright peculiar being peculiar only in this one thing, sincere unaffected goodness.
He was about to go on, when he perceived, from her quivering eye and pallid cheek, that nothing less than imposture was intended, and that by whatever means her imagination had been so impressed, it was really disturbed by unaffected awe and terror. He changed his tone, and exerted all his eloquence in endeavouring to soothe and extract from her the secret cause of such terror.
"But you can't ask him to play for you! You'd hate asking him a favour after after his refusal to accompany you any more." Magda smiled at her reassuringly. "My dear," she said, and there was an unaffected kindliness in her voice which few people ever heard. "My dear, I'm not going to let a little bit of cheap pride keep you away from Coppertop."
It was Rowden, who seized him and told him to come along. So, mildly protesting, he was ushered into a private dining-room where Clifford, rather red, jumped up from the table and welcomed him with a startled air which was softened by the unaffected glee of Rowden and the extreme courtesy of Elliott.
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