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Make it then impossible." She continued to think. "Is it really an 'order' from you? that I shall take the job? WILL you give yourself up?" Poor Strether heaved his sigh. "If I only could! But that's the deuce of it that I never can. No I can't." She wasn't, however, discouraged. "But you want to at least?" "Oh unspeakably!"
"Ah, I have begun to do that already," he said, with a touch of sadness. "I wonder if you are as lonely up here as I am at Udalkhand." She kissed his sleeve. "I miss you unspeakably," she said. His fingers closed upon hers. "Stella, can you keep a secret?" She looked up swiftly. "Of course of course. What is it? Have they made you Governor-General of the province?" He smiled grimly. "Not yet.
The hunter in astonishment then ran forward, but suddenly dashed against a solid mountain made of glass. Through that, he said, he had been looking at the animal. Unspeakably amazed, he finally walked around the mountain, and was just taking aim again, when he discovered that the glass had acted like a telescope, and that the bear was twenty-five miles away!
"I'm done for. I'm on the rocks. I'm a pauper." "A what?" "A pauper." I laughed. The man was splendid. There was no other word for it. "And shall I tell you something else that you are?" I said. "You are a low, sneaking liar. You are playing it low down on Eva." He laughed this time. It irritated me unspeakably.
Cosmo remained with them two years, and during that time did not go home, for so there was the more money to send; but as he entered his third year, he began to feel life growing heavy upon him, and longed unspeakably after his father. One day, the last of the first quarter, Mr.
Till now, he had not understood how unspeakably precious she was to him; for the most part he had treated her with playful good-humour, seldom, if ever, striking the note of passion in his speech. With this defect he reproached himself. Lilian had not learnt to trust him sufficiently; she feared the result upon him of such a blow as Northway had it in his power to inflict.
"It is impossible," she says, faintly, leaning for support on Mr. Morris, who stood by, unspeakably astonished at the strange scene taking place. "Impossible? Then I am sorry," he says. "Frankly, there is but one way, Madame, for you to obtain the passport you wish, and that is by becoming an American subject, the wife of Monsieur Calvert.
The life was unspeakably tedious, to be sure, and rather dangerous, too; but she had accepted the predicament it had to be endured and could not be helped; and such a state of mind made her circumstances much easier to support.
But the walker the long-distance walker is the most trying of all to the average leisurely and meditative citizen. He fits himself out with elaborate boots and ribbed stockings; he carries resin and other medicaments for use in case his feet should give way; his knapsack is unspeakably stylish, and he posts off like a spirited thoroughbred running a trial.
He will learn from them how unspeakably superior is the effect of the one moral impression left by a great action treated as a whole, to the effect produced by the most striking single thought or by the happiest image.
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