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Even before Hanson had reached the coast he found himself powerless "in the fell clutch of circumstance." He had taken cold in the mountains and for several weeks was too seriously ill even to contemplate with much interest his plan of revenge.
It had become the basis of his line of action, and their symphony of life, so beautiful at first in its sweet theme of mutual love and trust, now lost its harmony, and jarred into a hopeless jangle. The very fact that she faithfully adhered to her trustful unselfishness, acquiescing without a murmur in his decision, made readjustment the more impossible. Thus the weeks went by.
She will only come back as a visitor, for a few weeks at a time, and everything will be strange and different " "And Rex may go abroad before the end of the three years, and Hilary may marry and oh, a hundred other horrible things. Perhaps we may never meet again all together like this until we are quite old and grey- headed.
In everybody's life there are hours or days or even weeks that refuse to march on with the solemn procession of time, but lag behind and hide in some byway of memory, there to remain for ever and ever.
Supposing something happened, and he never came back! Emily turned round and looked at Julia in dreamy wonderment. 'Not come back at all? What nonsense you are talking, Emily! He won't be away more than a fortnight or three weeks. 'Three weeks! that seems a very long while. How shall we get through our evenings? Emily had again turned towards the window. Julia did not trouble to reply.
I had my audience, and in five minutes I turned my back on the premier and walked out of the office, and never put my foot in it again until, many weeks after, some trouble on the African frontier between English and Italian officers brought me a request from Crispi to come and receive a communication.
"What! since you produced your last work; only six weeks ago!" "Great changes may occur in six days," replied the dean, with a threatening accent; "and if I find things have taken a new and improper turn, I will be the first to expose it." "But before you act in this manner, my dear, surely you will wait " "I will wait until the see is disposed of to another," said he.
Now for weeks I had been waiting for a chance to tell this man my very thoughts. I had come to believe him a true friend who would not betray me. "If I should tell you things which you apparently don't know, you would understand why I am held here," I said. "Well, tell me," he urged. "Will you promise not to repeat my statements to any one else?" "I promise not to say a word."
The two weeks at Cannes Brulée were strange to the girl, thus introduced to a Southern house overflowing with guests and servants, and she moved amid the idling and irresponsibility, the laughter and persiflage, with a sense of being outside of it all, and the fault, try as she would, her own.
"I'm sleepy," he said; "haven't had any sleep in three weeks. Lost thirty-two pounds. If you fellows had only got that cribbing down on time, I'd be having a vacation " Another yawn interrupted him. The telegraph receiver had begun giving out the general manager's answer. Tell-Ledyard-we-hope-to-have-cars-in-a-few-days-
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