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You can run a mile, the length of the train, in ten minutes. Therefore, you reach Abscissa when the engine does, or in ten minutes ten minutes sooner than if you had lazily sat down upon the rear car and talked politics with the brakeman. You have diminished the time by one half. You have added your speed to that of the locomotive to some purpose. Nicht wahr?"
Would the maestro honour Mrs. Wilhammer by taking tea in her cabin? He stared dazedly at the girl, who remained respectful and silent. 'Did you not hear what I was playing? he murmured. 'Oh yes a synagogue medley, she replied quietly. 'They publish it on the East Side, nicht wahr? 'East Side? He was outraged.
"I wonder if it is hay fever," she remarked, worrying the satin reticule for her handkerchief, "or would it be the dew. Sonia, dear, is the dew falling?" Fraulein Sonia raised her face to the sky, and half closed her eyes. "No, mamma, my face is quite warm. Oh, look, Herr Professor, there are swallows in flight; they are like a little flock of Japanese thoughts nicht wahr?"
The Devil's quiet dignity, the surprise and disgust of his raised eyebrows, did but the more dissolve me. I rocked to and fro, I lay back aching. I behaved deplorably. 'I am a gentleman, and, he said with intense emphasis, 'I thought I was in the company of GENTLEMEN. 'Don't! I gasped faintly. 'Oh, don't! 'Curious, nicht wahr? I heard him say to Soames.
To this reading of the affair she naturally could not object, but as she gave him her hand quite formally for farewell, she said: "To-night you have forgotten the runes, tomorrow you forget me, nicht wahr? You are wrong. Them you will not find again: there are many of me. You should have forgotten me first." She escaped while a protest was on his lips.
The devil's quiet dignity, the surprise and disgust of his raised eyebrows, did but the more dissolve me. I rocked to and fro; I lay back aching; I behaved deplorably. "I am a gentleman, and," he said with intense emphasis, "I thought I was in the company of GENTLEMEN." "Don't!" I gasped faintly. "Oh, don't!" "Curious, nicht wahr?" I heard him say to Soames.
"Forgive me I knew it there are doubting Thomases everywhere and I'm a woman who deals with facts, so that I can use them to the confusion of enemies. Now I have them. Ser Federigo's watch and chain. Nicht wahr?"
The lovers in Tristan look forward to a renewed existence beyond the grave, in the "realm of night," where, freed from the trammels of the senses their love will endure, purified from the pollution of human lust in glory undimmed by the sordid conditions of human life. Sehnen hin zur heil'gen Nacht Wo ur-ewig einzig wahr Liebes-Wonne ihm lacht.
"Two bodies right here at the entrance would be fine, nicht wahr?" His last remark appealed to old Otto. "That is so," he muttered. "It is not safe. We must hide the bodies, both of them, yes?" The bodies! Jane decided that Dean must have been killed and that they thought that she, too, was dead. As she strove to open her eyes she could hear Frederic protesting. "It's inhuman," he cried.
I sez 'very well, tho' things has changed since slavery days. Those wuz good ole days for de black man; didn't hafter worry about nuthin'. Now, I sho' does mah share ob worryin'. I worries from one meal to de odder, I worries about whure I'ze gwine get some mo' clothes when dese wears out? "I tole de Governor mah 'sperience wif de Republican Party durin' de wahr.
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