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"I shall never do that," replies the other. "Ere many years are gone, I shall be seventy years old, Barnes." "Nothing in this country, my dear sir! positively nothing. Why, there was Titus, my neighbour in the country when will you come down to Newcome? who married a devilish pretty girl, of very good family, too, Miss Burgeon, one of the Devonshire Burgeons.
The weather had become beautifully soft and balmy for the middle of April, and the girls were able to sit out of doors, and do many of the things they had not hoped to do till May should burgeon and bloom.
As for the rest, every bit was made by her own hands featherstitched pinning blankets, a crocheted jacket and cap, knitted mittens, embroidered bonnets; slim little princess slips of sensible length; underskirts on absurd Lilliputian yokes; silk-embroidered white flannel petticoats; stockings and crocheted boots, seeming to burgeon before her eyes with wriggly pink toes and plump little calves; and last, but not least, many deliciously soft squares of bird's-eye linen.
The sun comes up over the horizon with a jerk. And a moment later all you are conscious of is a great peace. As I drained the glass now, new life seemed to burgeon within me.
In a short time, Jack and Silvia were absorbed in their respective professions, but never failing in their duty to the great world movement that was making real the prophecy of England's poetic seer: "We two will serve them both in aiding her Will clear away the parasitic forms That seem to keep her up but drag her down Will leave her space to burgeon out of all Within her let her make herself her own To give or keep, to live and learn and be All that not harms distinctive womanhood."
Continuously damp walls, or wall-paper, will produce them in specific variety, not because their invisible spores are flying about in the atmosphere to find appropriate lodgment, but because the necessary conditions obtain for their manifestation, or for the development of their vital units those everywhere diffused, and ready to burgeon forth from the proper matrix, or from certain nutrient conditions to be met with in all vegetable substances, after the process of decay has commenced.
Raffaelle was too ostentatious of meaning; his merits were too obvious, too much thrust upon the understanding; not retired nor involved, so as to need discovery or solution. Without doubt, Lamb's taste on several matters was peculiar; for instance, there were a few obsolete words, such as arride, agnize, burgeon, &c., which he fancied, and chose to rescue from oblivion.
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