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"Quite right, and I do not even yet give up the hope of securing you to take a share in my vintage." "You are mistaken. My work is already done. The gods themselves have taken it in hand. Amasis has been severely enough punished for banishing me from country, friends and pupils into this unclean land." "You mean by his blindness perhaps?" "Possibly."
Their goods and chattels had been put on the street pavement, whence the parish had removed them to the dust destructor, probably the best thing to do with them. The family were all unhealthy and unclean. The parents did not seem to have either strength, grit or intelligence to fit them for any useful life.
In the silence that followed, Trent drew away from her slowly, repugnantly, as though from something monstrous and unclean. "You wouldn't you couldn't do such a thing!" he exclaimed in low, appalled tones of unbelief. "I could!" she asserted, though her face whitened and her eyes flinched beneath his contemptuous gaze.
It seemed without form, save for an unclean, half-animal face, that looked out, vilely, from somewhere about its middle. And then I saw others there were hundreds of them. They seemed to grow out of the shadows. Several I recognized almost immediately as mythological deities; others were strange to me, utterly strange, beyond the power of a human mind to conceive.
If it were not, madame," he added, with a bow and a meaning glance from his dark eyes, "that you bring with you something of your own so well worth looking upon, I could almost find myself regretting your visit." She still regarded him fixedly. There was in her face something of that shrinking curiosity with which one looks upon an unclean and horrible thing. "That is your answer?" she murmured.
Even poesy in our times turns from the Castalian fount whose crystal-clear water becomes an unclean pool and, though reluctantly, obeys the impulse to make its abode in the dust of reality. Therefore I plead with voice and pen in behalf of fairy tales; therefore I tell them to my children and grandchildren, and have even written a volume of them myself.
There were small carefully powdered lines at the tails of Aileen's eyes and at the corners of her mouth. At the same time she seemed preternaturally gay, kittenish, spoiled. With her were two men one a well-known actor, sinisterly handsome, a man with a brutal, unclean reputation, the other a young social pretender both unknown to Berenice.
The furniture consisted of a fixed table, two feet by ten, a dozen stools, a picture of a saint, a mirror, and a boy, the latter article not always at hand. The cabins were unclean, and reminded me of the general condition of transports during our late war. Can any philosopher explain why boats in the service of government are nearly always dirty?
To my surprise, the natives who were with me would not touch his flesh, though pressed by me to "n'yam n'yam," or to eat. I found that they considered him an unclean beast; so, regretting I had wasted my bullet, I went farther on and startled some buffaloes.
It seemed as if nothing of all that he met in his daily life was common or unclean to him, for there was no mordant in his nature for what was coarse or vile, and all else he could not help idealizing into its own conception of itself, so to speak.
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