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We drank it, and felt a strange and witching ecstasy as of heaven go stealing through us, and Seppi's eyes filled and he said worshipingly: "We shall be there some day, and then " He glanced furtively at Satan, and I think he hoped Satan would say, "Yes, you will be there some day," but Satan seemed to be thinking about something else, and said nothing.
"A journey! yes, I will take a journey one which I have longed for these thirty years I will go to Rome! Once again I will lie on the floor of the Sistine, and look up worshipingly to Michael the angel." "And how long shall you stay, brother?" "Stay? Until my heart grows pulseless, and my brain dull. Why should I ever come back to this cold England?
On all the teeming, bleeding front no father, husband, or brother was hers, but amid the multitudinous exploits and agonies her thoughts were ever on him who, by no tie but the heart's, had in the past year grown to be father, mother, sister, and brother to the superb hundred whom she so tenderly knew, who so worshipingly knew her, and still whose lives, at every chance, he was hurling at the foe as stones from a sling.
Also that her husband bullied her, and that when he did that she looked at him worshipingly. Then one evening, a week or so after the appearance of the new aborigines, there came a clumping at my door. I was seated at my typewriter and the book was balkier than usual, and I wished that the clumper at the door would go away. "Come!" I called, ungraciously enough. Then, on second thought: "Herein!"
There was an audience of sixty-four in Lecture-room A earnest girl students bringing out note-books and spectacle-cases, frivolous girls feeling their back hair, and the men settling down with a "Come, let's get it over!" air, or glowing up worshipingly, like Eugene Field Linderbeck, or determined not to miss anything, like Carl the captious college audience, credulous as to statements of fact and heavily unresponsive to the spirit.
And she went to Sara's side and stood and looked at her worshipingly. But in Sara's hungry eyes the old light had begun to glow and transform her world for her.
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