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Updated: June 10, 2025
Van Brunt's as good as at home in that house, sure enough; whoever's down-stairs." "Bless her dear little heart!" said his mother. "A good name is better than precious ointment." August had come, and John was daily expected home.
They took hold of her own very deeply, by the means; what was strong or tender, before, now seemed to her too mighty to be withstood; and Ellen read not only with her lips, but with her whole heart, the precious words, longing that they might come with their just effect upon Mr. Van Brunt's mind.
"Oh because I don't know it seems so queer! I don't like it at all. I am very sorry, indeed." "For your aunt's sake, or for Mr. Van Brunt's sake?" "What do you mean?" "I mean, do you think he or she will be a loser by the bargain?" "Why, he to be sure I think he will I don't think she will. I think he is a great deal too good.
Van Brunt came back saying how glad she was to see her sleeping so finely. Other eyes looked on her for a minute kind and gentle eyes; though Mrs. Van Brunt's were kind and gentle too; once a soft kiss touched her forehead there was no danger of waking her.
Domingo, like Captain Samuel Brunt, draws from the "exotic" tradition. Both travelers find themselves in strange lands; both experience many other adventures before they make their way to the moon, drawn by birds. But the century which elapsed between Godwin's fanciful tale and Brunt's fantastic romance felt the impact of the new science.
For Hanbridge, though it counts sixty thousand inhabitants, and is the chief of the Five Towns that vast, huddled congeries of boroughs devoted to the manufacture of earthenware is a place where the art of attending to other people's business still flourishes in rustic perfection. Ezra Brunt's drapery establishment was the foremost retail house, in any branch of trade, of the Five Towns.
Brunt's account of the preparation for the ascent into the orb of the moon is almost as careful as a modern account of an ascent into the stratosphere. His bird flyers lay their plans deliberately and upon the basis of the most recent scientific discoveries. There is nothing fortuitous about their final ascent.
"I am glad to hear it," he remarked reflectively. "Prevanche was a bully fellow if he did have ideas about head-straps, the beggar. And he pulled through? Well, I'm glad." Five years ... the phrase drifted recurrently through Van Brunt's thought, and somehow the face of Emily Southwaithe seemed to rise up and take form before him.
Tired you are, I know, and must be. We shall want to rest all day tomorrow, shan't we?" "Oh, I don't know!" said Ellen, sighing; "I shall be glad when we begin. How long do you think it will be, Miss Alice, before we get to Mrs. Van Brunt's?" "My dear child, I cannot tell you. I have not the least notion whereabouts we are.
Van Brunt was there always at night, and about the place as much as possible during the day; when obliged to be absent, he stationed Sam Larkens to guard the house, also to bring wood and water, and do whatever he was bid. All the help, however, that was given from abroad could not make Ellen's life an easy one; Mr. Van Brunt's wishes that Miss Fortune would get up again began to come very often.
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