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The love born of beauty was not mine; I had nothing in common with it: I could not dare to meddle with it, but another love, venturing diffidently into life after long acquaintance, furnace-tried by pain, stamped by constancy, consolidated by affection's pure and durable alloy, submitted by intellect to intellect's own tests, and finally wrought up, by his own process, to his own unflawed completeness, this Love that laughed at Passion, his fast frenzies and his hot and hurried extinction, in this Love I had a vested interest; and whatever tended either to its culture or its destruction, I could not view impassibly.
We are not such a pair of loving brothers that you should seek me for affection's sake." And approaching Leopold as he spoke, he stopped just before him, and continued: "I implore of you be generous and tell me what you want. You have letters from the empress, have you not?" "I have.
Meanwhile, I wonder whether the personal presents which friends make for affection's sake to their pastor ought to be included by the Board of Trustees in their estimate of his salary? and also whether it is quite the thing to expect that the pastor will advance, out of his own pocket, whatever money is necessary to keep his church from falling behind its neighbors in showy attractions?
His toughened heart-strings were silent at natural affection's touch, and only twanged to the never-dying greed for gold useless gold! In an unmoved wonder, the senile scholar listened to the broken sobs of the child of Valerie Delavigne. He was astounded at her financial carelessness, when she moaned: "Let me go away!
At last they came to this result: That Captain Innocency should quarter at Mr. Reason's. That Captain Patience should quarter at Mr. Mind's. This Mr. Mind was formerly the Lord Willbewill's clerk in time of the late rebellion. It was ordered that Captain Charity should quarter at Mr. Affection's house. That Captain Good-Hope should quarter at my Lord Mayor's.
Affection's strongest ties could not have produced a more affecting and melting scene the wordless weeping pleasure, too deep for utterance, with which he was embraced by his relatives, the cordial and hearty reception given him by his friends, and the joyous greeting bestowed upon him by all, might well have put to the blush those heartless calumniators, who, branding the savage as the creature only of unbridled passions, deny to him any of those better feelings and affections which are implanted in the breast of all mankind, and which nature has not denied to any colour or to any race.
Hopeless of being served for affection's sake, he was meditating whom he could make his own by bribery, when a light from an open window flashed across the street, and illuminated the unprepossessing profile of Jaime the gipsy, who, in his capacity of guide, was riding in front, and a little on one side of Colonel Villabuena.
Oh, face most fair, shall thy beauty compare With affection's glowing light? Oh, riches and pride, how fade ye beside Love's wealth, serene and bright. Martin F. Tupper. Judge Merlin went into his well-ordered library, rang the bell, and sent a servant to call his daughter.
The blush which that thought called up, faded away the tear trickled on her features recovered their serenity and she turned with a sweet smile to her sisters. "My dear dear sisters! it is long since we have seen my poor uncle. "Affection's ties may have been somewhat loosened. They cannot I am sure have been dissolved. "Do not think me selfish enough to retain this generous bequest.
Single, he could go back to his world and pick up the threads again, but not with a wife at his side. Oh, yes; they would be happy at first. Then Elsa would begin to miss the things she had so gloriously thrown away. The rift in the lute; the canker in the rose. They were equally well-born, well-bred; politeness would usurp affection's hold.
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