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There was an immense noise of what sounded like grasshoppers or crickets, and also at intervals distant choruses of frogs, but these sounds seemed altogether beneficent, so warm, and southern, and far away from less happy places where in October cold winds perpetually torment the world. Even in the dark Mr. Twist knew he had got to somewhere that was beautiful.
It is a curious thing that the long-continued westerly winds had so prevented the coasters arriving, that the Town was almost on the point of a famine as to bread. The change has brought in abundance of flour. The people in general seem extremely comfortable; their houses are excellent, almost all of stone.
Higher up the country or lower, I cannot tell which, for the river winds in all directions, and the compass, from pointing our course as due north, glides over to northwest, west, southwest, and on one or two occasions, I believe, pointed due south we came to the first Brazilian town, Puerto Martinho, where we were obliged to stay a short time.
For sons resemble winds, which sometimes lift their families like clouds to heaven, and sometimes dash them to the earth, like hail. For having waited so long to get a son at all, till hope was all but gone, the joy of both his parents, when he actually arrived, was so extravagantly great, that they could not make too much of him.
When he had repaired the damage to his ships, Low sailed out from the island, and before long he fell in with a wrecked vessel which had lost all its masts in a great storm, and was totally disabled, floating about wherever the winds chose to blow it.
In duty again and always!... Ali did not come yesterday. I suppose the high winds were too unfriendly. So the despatch of that date remained on my hands; and I now open it, and include a supplement.... This morning as usual I rode to the Princess' door. The servant gave me the same report his mistress was not receiving.
Though during this second period of elation I was never in a mood so reckless as that which obtained immediately after my recovery from depression in August, 1902, I was at least so excitable that, had those in authority attempted to impose upon me, I should have thrown discretion to the winds.
A square meal, perfectly cooked, washed down with perfect beer and served perfectly by Fräulein Tilde and all for the price of a shampoo! From the Pschorrbräu, if the winds be fair, the beeriad takes us westward along the Neuhauserstrasse a distance of eighty feet and six inches, and behold, we are at the Augustinerbräu.
My charming Laura was a considerable heiress, and, although no sordid considerations ever had a feather's weight upon her own preferences, of course, yet her father was naturally and very properly anxious that the guardian of so fair a flower should be able to shield it from the biting winds of poverty.
"I saw her last week," said Marsham. "She always asks after you." "I am so glad! I fell in love with her. Surely" Diana hesitated "surely some day she will marry Mr. Frobisher?" Marsham shook his head. "I think she feels herself too frail." Diana remembered that little scene of intimacy of tenderness and Marsham's words stirred about her, as it were, winds of sadness and renunciation.
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