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Updated: May 14, 2025
In the world he will see a larger chess-field, and one also shaped by the severest mathematics: the world is so because the brain of man is so, motive and move, motive and move: they sum up life, all life, from the aspen-leaf turning its back to the wind, to the ecstasy of a saint. Do they not exist in life as on the board, to cut the way for royal or nobler pieces?
Waring, we two saw into one another's hearts so deep in the tunnel that day we spent together, that it would be foolish for us now to make false barriers between us. I'll tell you the plain truth." She trembled like an aspen-leaf. "I love you, I think; but I can never marry you." She said it so simply, yet with such an earnestness of despair, that Cyril knew with a pang she really meant it.
Hale pulled the trinket from his pocket as they were walking down the river-bank at sunset and the little girl quivered like an aspen-leaf in a sudden puff of wind. "Hit's a fairy-stone," she cried excitedly. "Why, where on earth did you " "Why, sister Sally told me about 'em.
At that moment I was just smarting under the blow of Iris' elopement, and words fail to describe my feelings at this second and most terrible catastrophe, for I realized how it would affect you, my poor boy." Kendal had sunk down into the nearest chair, white as death, and trembling like an aspen-leaf. He could hardly grasp the meaning of her words. "Dorothy gone Iris fled with another!"
But the train stopped; Munich was reached, and August, hot and cold by turns, and shaking like a little aspen-leaf, felt himself once more carried out on the shoulders of men, rolled along on a truck, and finally set down, where he knew not, only he knew he was thirsty so thirsty! If only he could have reached his hand out and scooped up a little snow!
'BLAST YOU BOTH, WHAT DO YOU WANT? he roared out to them ever so far off, so that it struck them with an icy shiver. 'YES, I KNOW WELL ENOUGH WHERE IT IS', said the North Wind; 'once in my life I blew an aspen-leaf thither, but I was so tired I couldn't blow a puff for ever so many days after.
And the continual agitation of the aspen-leaf seemed to him rather foolish, reminding him of a weak-minded woman clamouring for sympathy always. The aspen was an untidy tree; he was not sure that he liked the tree, and if one is in doubt whether one likes or dislikes, the chances are that one dislikes. Who would think of asking himself if he liked beech-trees, or larches, or willows?
Inch by inch I neared him till my hand touched him. He trembled like an aspen-leaf, but did not attack me. "Hercules be good to us all!" exclaimed one of the men.
A ball whizzed by me, that soon determined my further movements; so, putting on all speed, I flew down the street, turned the corner, and regained the hotel breathless and without a hat, while Sparks arrived a moment later, pale as a ghost, and trembling like an aspen-leaf. "Safe, by Jove!" said Sparks, throwing himself into a chair, and panting for breath.
She quivered like an aspen-leaf but held on. "Starboard one point," cried David, sitting down, and lifting an oar out from the boat; but just as Lucy, in obeying the order, leaned a little over the lee gunwale with the tiller, a breaker broke like a shell upon the boat's broadside abaft, stove in her upper plank, and filled her with water; some flew and slapped Lucy in the face like an open hand.
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