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"There is nothing changed about this house or garden since I was here twenty-five years ago. It makes me feel young again." "You know time always does stand still in an enchanted palace," said Anne seriously. "It is only when the prince comes that things begin to happen." Mr. Irving smiled a little sadly into her uplifted face, all astar with its youth and promise.
Beyond this is the country of Vastacius, whose son is named Astar, after his maternal grandfather, and this country is not under the dominion of the Tartars.
I do not want the women of Kirkwall wondering who was to blame. I do not want them coming to see me with solemn looks and tearful voices. I could not endure their pitying of 'poor Miss Thora! They would not dare go to Coll with their sympathetic curiosity, but there are such women as Astar Gager, and Lala Snackoll, and Thyra Peterson, and Jorunna Flett.
She found Anne standing motionless before a picture hanging on the wall between the two windows, with her eyes astar with dreams. The white and green light strained through apple trees and clustering vines outside fell over the rapt little figure with a half-unearthly radiance. "Anne, whatever are you thinking of?" demanded Marilla sharply. Anne came back to earth with a start.
"The Sea Gull may have hands; she has no tongue." "All that touches the Sea Gull is a thing by itself," cried pretty Astar Graff, whose husband was one of the Sea Gull's crew. "So, then, Astar, she takes her own at point and edge. That is her way, and her right," replied Ragnor. Thus up the narrow street, from one side or the other, Conall Ragnor was greeted.
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