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The intruder, with an involuntary murmur of apology, drew back; but, as she turned, she was suddenly and unspeakably saddened to see Aurora drop her glance, and, with a solemn slowness whose momentous significance was not to be mistaken, silently shake her head. "Alas!" cried the tender heart of Clotilde. "Alas! M. Grandissime!"
"Samoa," said I, "those isles of yours, of whose beauty you so often make vauntful mention, can those isles, good Samoa, furnish a valley in all respects equal to Willamilla?" Disdainful answer was made, that Willamilla might be endurable enough for a sojourn, but as a permanent abode, any glen of his own natal isle was unspeakably superior.
If you didn't, at heart, hate all change all innovation, you couldn't have lived here this long without having altered it." "Altered it why?" Conscience laughed. "Well, because it's all unspeakably depressing, for one thing.
"It's all right with me, now," she said; "so wonderfully all right." "I want to explain. Had to be by myself; find out. Must have seemed so unspeakably r " "Oh, don't, don't explain! Our kiss explained."
And that one might indeed say it was, for it was Sunday. The bells rang, and people in their best clothes went to church, and looked so pleased. Yes, there was something so pleasant in everything: it was indeed so fine and warm a day, that one might well say: "Our Lord is certainly unspeakably good towards us poor mortals!"
A man living to-day in the heart of civilization, where money is in reality legs and wings and hands, is nothing more than a torso without it, he thought. He felt mutilated, unspeakably humiliated. It seemed more out of his ability to get any honest employment than it had ever done before. A number of laborers with their dinner-satchels, and their pickaxes over their shoulders, passed him.
'You admit they are that? 'I feel very sure that Mr Fadge is. 'Then you are not on his side against me? 'How could you suppose such a thing? 'Well, well; we won't talk of that. Perhaps it isn't a great matter. No from a philosophical point of view, such things are unspeakably petty. But I am not much of a philosopher. He laughed, with a break in his voice.
Depend upon it, you would gain unspeakably if you would learn with me to see some of the poetry and the pathos, the tragedy and the comedy, lying in the experience of a human soul that looks out through dull grey eyes, and that speaks in a voice of quite ordinary tones. In that case, I should have no fear of your not caring to know what farther befell the Rev.
He was to go early in the morning; and he made Ellen take leave of him the night before; but he was in no hurry to send her away; and when at length he told her it was very late, and she rose up to go, he went with her to the very door of her room, and there bade her good night. How the next days passed Ellen hardly knew; they were unspeakably long.
It was strange that at sight of a thing so unspeakably fair, a coldness like that which comes from the jewel-blue lips of a Muir crevasse should have fallen upon Dodson, or that it was only by summoning all the manhood that was left in him, that he was able to restore light to the room, and to rush to his friend. When he reached poor Tim he was stone-still with paralysis.
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