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The Channel coast towns of England are full of human derelicts who stand or sit for hours, looking wistfully back toward what was once home. The story of the hospitals is not always gloomy. Where the surroundings are favourable, defeat is sometimes turned to victory. Tetanus is being fought and conquered by means of a serum.
By and by a bird slid softly from the heart of the tree, and dropped on the ground below out of sight. But Leonard heard its carol. It awoke its companions; wings began to glance in the air, and the clouds grew red towards the east. Leonard sighed and left the window. On the table, near Helen's rose- tree, which he bent over wistfully, lay a letter. He had not observed it before.
And canary birds, now? Well really " he began to glower all over again. "Oh, thunder!" he finished abruptly, "I guess I'll go on down to the hospital where I belong!" A little wistfully the White Linen Nurse stepped forward. "The hospital?" she said. "Oh, the hospital?
She knew he was asleep, and with a beating heart she drew near to him, and stood for a moment looking down upon the face she had not seen since that wintry morning five years before, when in the dim twilight, it had bent wistfully over her, as if the lips would fain have asked forgiveness for the angry words and deeds of the previous night.
There was no place for her, and in her terrible desolation she stood alone, her eyes wandering wistfully from one to another, but turning very quickly when they fell on the white-haired Densie, her mother.
The mystery of the nomadic ages was in her eyes again as she began her narrative, wistfully, and reminiscently. "You see, I'd been thinking a good deal of my father and mother. I hadn't known about them very long, and I lived with their memory. The Mother Superior had told me a few things all she knew, I suppose before I left the convent at Quebec; and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne especially Mrs.
When you hear me cry out, 'Lagardere, I am here, into the room and out with your swords for the last chance and the last fight." Cocardasse laid his hand on the sham hump of the sham Æsop. "Courage, comrade, the devil is dead." Lagardere laughed at him, something wistfully. "Not yet." Passepoil suggested, timidly: "We live in hopes."
Toni spoke rather wistfully. "You see, I didn't know at first who she was, and I thought she meant to be quite decent.
Could he but have known how fresh a source of culture he was evoking there for other generations, through all those years in which, a little wistfully, he would harp on the limitation of his time by business, and sigh for a better fortune in regard to literary opportunities!
Behind them, the Lichstorm Mountains were blotted out from view by a haze that had gathered together. The sky ahead, just above the horizon, began to be of a strange colour. It was an intense jale-blue. The whole northern atmosphere was stained with ulfire. Maskull's mind grew disturbed. "Alppain is rising, Gangnet." Gangnet smiled wistfully. "It begins to trouble you?"
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