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Occasionally when he referred to his heart hunger, and how hard he was studying in hopes that she might think better of him, she wished that he had no purse-proud and haughty mother to stand between him and a poor girl, and her next letter would be more chilly than ever. What perhaps was a bitter-sweet thought was the fact that the colder she answered him, the warmer his next letter would be.
"Why, Kitty!" exclaimed Lucy Ware innocently, and while they were discussing the morals of geographical swearing Hardy made his bow, and passed out into the night. The bitter-sweet of love was upon him again, making the stars more beautiful, the night more mysterious and dreamy; but as he crept into his blankets he sighed.
Aladdin had no message, that he knew of, for the world, but the call of one of the arts was upon him; and he knew that willy-nilly he must answer that call as long as eyes could see, or hands hold pen, or tongue call for pencil and paper, money buy them, or theft procure them. He set himself stubbornly and courageously to the bitter-sweet task of learning to write.
If you doubt this look down into the river, and such an one will inevitably smile back at you." Pleased, yet somewhat abashed, Sylvia busied herself in knotting up the long brown stems and tinging her nose with yellow pollen as she inhaled the bitter-sweet breath of the lilies. But when Warwick turned to resume the oars, she said "Let us float out as we floated in.
From the date of 1840 Chopin's health declined; but through the seven years during which his connection with Mme. Sand continued, he persevered actively in his work of composition. The final rupture with the woman he so madly loved seems to have been his death-blow. He spoke of Mme. Sand without bitterness, but his soul pined in the bitter-sweet of memory.
"You showed me a new world," he answered, quickly. "Not the world I expected to find where life would hold little of joy or zest but a magical world; a beautiful world; yours!" She half-hung her head. "But then then " "It became a memory; bitter-sweet; yet more sweet than bitter!" "And now?" He did not answer immediately.
However fast she might hurry through life, they would reach out and touch her, and she would feel those straining hands against her heart. And then, across her bitter-sweet musings, came the creak of the door as some one pushed it quietly open, and entered the room. "Ann!"
A boyish light came into his eyes as they caught the flash of the tiny river; here green under an overhanging willow, there snow white under a rain of cherry blossoms, now silver as it ran around a shallow curve, and again gold in the sunlight filtered through a tangle of elm boughs and bitter-sweet.
"Isn't it grand!" she cried, when there was room for words to pass out. "Grand," agreed Susan, a marvelous change of expression in her face also. The beer came. Etta drank a quarter of the tall glass at once. Susan tasted, rather liked the fresh bitter-sweet odor and flavor. "Is it very intoxicating?" she inquired. "If you drink enough," said Etta. "But not one glass." Susan took quite a drink.
"Poor Jacob," sighed the bereaved mother; "nothing has been heard of him since. The poor lad must have perished under the rough treatment of the soldiers." "Peace to his soul!" said the Rabbi, reverently, and the company responded "Amen." These bitter-sweet memories were compensated for by the great improvement which had taken place in the condition of the Jews during the past twenty years.
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