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I love springing surprises on myself and on other people; and I know I do best the things which, if I considered the matter beforehand, I shouldn't have the veriest ghost of a notion how to set about doing. That, darling, is inspiration! I should have played the sackbut by inspiration; whereupon Nebuchadnezzar would instantly have had me cast into the burning fiery furnace."
Somewhat ashamed at being discovered, she dried her eyes and tried to smile a poor pitiful smile, with the veriest ghost of joy in it. "Yes, Jasper." "Is Apollyon still alive?" "He stands for the powers of evil, Jasper, and they are always alive." "But, I mean, does he walk about the world like a man? Is he really alive?" "Why, no, Jasper. What nonsense has got into your head now?"
Gallant as he was in the field, it was said that in the harem he was the veriest craven alive, completely subjugated by his ugly and odious wife. "The Bahawder's lips are closed," said he, at last, trotting up to me; "has he not a word for old Puneeree Muckun?"
She had tossed about with the army, like one of the tassels to their standards; blowing whichever way the breath of war floated her; and had experienced, or thought she had experienced, as many affairs as the veriest Don Juan among them, though her heart had never been much concerned in them, but had beaten scarce a shade quicker, if a lunge in a duel, or a shot from an Indigene, had pounced off with her hero of the hour to Hades.
As well expect him to forget that chivalrous manner of his, bewitcher of the veriest stranger. He would, find his tall hat, search out his staunch umbrella, and convoy the visitor forth, when the hour of parting had arrived. Nothing less would suffice him, and as to his company, it was a delight for ever.
He loves such open-air scenes so sincerely, he knows so well how to express and communicate the perennial charm they have for him, that the veriest bookworm becomes a sportsman through sheer sympathy by the mere fact of looking at them.
After that, the veriest five-year-old among the Zakka Khels, watching sleepless over the rim of some stone watch-tower, could have taken oath that the Khyber's unburied dead were prowling in search of empty graves. Probably their uncanny silence was their best protection; but Rewa Gunga chose to break it after a time.
To the veriest new chum these square blots, like squares of brown sticking-plaster all around the kraal, would have betokened something unusual. To remedy this before it was too late I hastened back. After we had done our breakfasts, and some three hours after dawn, the sentry in one of the huts reported a force to the north.
MONK. I am the veriest wretch that breathes on earth. HEDWIG. The heart is never deaf to wretchedness; But thy look freezes up my inmost soul. Mother, my father! HEDWIG. Oh, my God! My father! Thou'rt here once more! My father, my dear father! Yes, here I am once more! Where is your mother? WALTER. There at the door she stands, and can no further, She trembles so with terror and with joy.
If Hetty had been the veriest coquette living, she could not have devised a more effectual charm to a man of Eben Williams's temperament. He had come out unscathed from many sieges which had been laid to him by women. He knew very well the ordinary methods, the atmosphere of the average wooing or wooable woman, and he was proof against them all.
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