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Hence the first effect of the enlargement of the armies was something almost like a fairy-tale almost as if the streets were crowded with kings, walking about and wearing crowns of gold. This merely optical vision of the revolution was but the first impression of a reality equally vast and new.
Just then the door opened, and an elderly gentleman, wearing spectacles, entered the laboratory. He seemed much excited. "What happened? Is any one hurt? Was there an explosion here?" he asked. Then he saw the devastation on all sides the broken glass, the scattered and torn books and he noticed Mark rubbing his head.
Grundy, had money to spend and to give, was staying with her in Melrose, and wearing good and well made clothes. Old servants the old laundress old schoolfellows were visited. My father's old clerk, Allan Freer, had a good business in Melrose, though not equal to that of the Tory firm.
If he had failed he was not wholly foolish; they knew his few redeeming virtues, and they would be generous. The talk stopped short as he entered, and he saw through the tobacco reek half a dozen lengthy faces wearing the air of solemnity which the hillman adopts in his pleasures. They were all his own herds and keepers, save two whom he knew for foresters from Glenavelin.
When Ferrier one day came across the simple lines "Perhaps the selfsame song has found a path To the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn," he came near to imitating Ruth. He knew his duty well enough, but the affections and the spirit are strong. Then the almost ceaseless bad weather, and the many squalid conditions of life, were wearing to body and soul.
I grant that it would be an unpleasant world if we were all enthusiasts, but the sight of a man like him throwing his whole life and energy into his work, and wearing himself out trying to lessen the evils he sees around him, ought to do good to us all. Look at these boys," and he apostrophized Wilson and Richards, as they appeared together at the door.
She goes there as Jessie's equal, and as such her wardrobe must be suitable." No one could live long with Maddy Clyde without becoming interested in her, and in spite of herself Agnes' dislike was wearing away, particularly as of late she had seen no signs of special attention on the doctor's part.
She kept up a flow of conversation, in the kind, cheerful, intelligent voice in which you talk to a child who has to be kept happy and amused. Ronnie let her go on talking in that voice, while he took his bearings. He glanced at her, furtively, once; then turned his eyes seaward again. Helen, also, was wearing a fur coat, and a pretty grey fur toque on her soft hair.
Whittaker, was crowned with success. One day, when Mr. Whittaker was getting better, Mr. Stephens had asked her to show him some of her work. Jane Lavinia, wearing the despised sailor hat, had gone over to the Whittaker place with some of her best sketches. She came home again feeling as if all the world and herself were transfigured.
The starting of the daily 'Mail Express' from Ballyfuchsia is a time of great excitement and confusion, which on some occasions increases to positive panic. The stationmaster, armed with a large dinner-bell, stands on the platform, wearing an expression of anxiety ludicrously unsuited to the situation.
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