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You are unspeakably rude, and I ought to be furiously angry." The Texan appeared to consider. "No. You oughtn't to do that because when something important comes up you ain't got anything back, an' folks won't regard you serious. But you wouldn't have been even peeved if you knew what I was thinkin' about." "What was it?"

"Every waltz must be mine now," said Lord Airlie. "And, Beatrice, I shall speak to Lord Earle tonight. Are you willing?" Yes, she was willing. It was very pleasant to be taken possession of so completely. It was pleasant to find a will stronger than her own. She did not care how soon all the world knew that she loved him. The only thing she wondered at was why he should be so unspeakably happy.

If she could talk with Ellen about it, tell her what she was going to do, show her the children, and then come back and find it all the same, it would last. But somehow she shrank unspeakably from seeing Ellen.

Nothing affects and astonishes one more in these inscriptions than this calm, assured confidence that death was but a profound sleep, a rest unspeakably grateful after such a weary life of awful suffering, and that they should see their beloved ones again.

The country folk came in great numbers, and Helbeck, more estranged than ever now, watched the mournful scene from afar. Such is the tragedy of faith and love, which bequeathed to the already lonely and sorrowful man memories so unspeakably sad, and led this new Antigone to immolate herself in so awful a manner "a blind witness to august things". For us there remains but one question.

That would be unspeakably better than any happiness that could come to me through forgetting. Dear lady, good night. The sun has set; there is now but one fiery dimple on the horizon, as if a golden finger had dented it now it is gone; the mists are coming up over the sea. A kiss on each of your white hands, dear. Tonight I am too humble to lift my thoughts to your lips.

But I did not open a single one of them, though I found a pleasure in turning them over and over, and wondering as to what was within them. There were several in Teresa's fine hand, and these interested me most of all and tantalised me unspeakably.

"Frank, what have you heard of Constance?" Had I been arming myself to meet that question disciplining my voice and countenance for days, only to fail so miserably at last? I felt unspeakably angry and self-reproachful when I saw that my face had told him all. "When did she die?" He went on in the same measured tone, without taking his eyes off me.

And the temptation will come to you, too, and their faith offers much that is attractive to the crowd. They imagine a Paradise full of unspeakably alluring joys but we, my son we shall meet again in our own, shall we not?" "Yes, yes, Father!" cried the young man. "I will remain a Christian, staunch and true..." "That is right," interrupted the sick man.

He was my latest catch, and I was rather proud of him. He didn't trouble to pursue many women. And then after reading that book I felt so evil, so unspeakably ashamed, that, when I knew he was really in earnest, I didn't throw him off like the rest. I accepted him." She shuddered suddenly and twined her arm about her husband's neck. "Dicky, I went through hell after that.