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Desire looked after her with a grateful smile. "I believe Aunt Caroline likes me," she said with a note of faint surprise. "Is that very wonderful?" "Yes." Benis looked at her quickly and looked away. She was certainly paler. She held her head as if its crown of hair were heavy. "It does not seem wonderful to other people who also like you." Her eyes turned to him almost timidly.

Tourists have not yet discovered what a wonderful country this is for sight-seeing, fortunately for us.

True, it was a wonderful old town, rich in tradition, picturesque in character, hoary with age, bulging with the secrets of an active past; but at present, according to the well travelled Truxton, it was a poky old place about which historians either had lied gloriously or had been taken in shamelessly. In either case, Edelweiss was not what he had come to believe it would be.

Not only are we together, but we have found friends in our masters, a home in this strange land." "Truly it is wonderful, Amuba. This Priest Ameres is a most excellent person, one to be loved by all who come near him. We have indeed been most fortunate in having been chosen by him."

I felt more than ever how wonderful it was that he should be so good to me; a person so flattered and run after; but all the same I couldn't make myself feel in awe of him. He seemed to me just a Man: and I wanted as much as ever to see what he would do if I took my own way and went against him. Mrs.

There was nothing he could distinguish; everything was woven together, a mere blaze of wonderful, iridescent, blazing coloration. But if he could not see, he could feel. The pain was excruciating. He closed his eyes and fell to thinking, curiously enough, that the experience was similar to what he had gone through when upon learning to swim, he had first opened his eyes under the water.

Just little songs for children." "Verses," he exclaimed; "how wonderful! I knew you were a goddess and a song-bird, but not that you were a poet, too." "Nor am I; they are the most trifling things." "I expect they are delicious, like your singing. Read them to me, beloved," he begged. But Mary would not.

The creature that excels in leaping, and might so easily escape from the threatening claws, the wonderful jumper with the prodigious thighs, remains crouching stupidly in its place, or even approaches the enemy with deliberate steps.

"The purity of our race aye, the purity of the Japanese race forbids intermarriage; hence we are confronted with the intolerable prospect of sharing our wonderful state with an alien race that must forever remain, alien in thought, language, morals, religion, patriotism, and standards of living.

These plays, whatever names they bear, take place in the true land of romance and in the very century of wonderful love stories. He knew well that in the forest of Ardennes there were neither the lions and serpents of the torrid zone, nor the shepherdesses of Arcadia; but he transferred both to it, because the design and import of his picture required them.