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No trace of the wicked inner workings of his mind, however, darkened the equanimity of his features, or clouded the serene, soft candour of his eyes, as he at last turned towards the loving, shrinking woman, who stood waiting for his approval, as simply and sweetly as a rose might wait for the touch of the morning sun. Slowly, and like little pellets of ice, his first words fell from his lips,
When she returned from the Château de Gramont, he was discomposed at finding that she brought back a clouded visage, and seemed perfectly indifferent to the choicest dainties which he caused to be set before her as the most striking mark of his affection.
'If the pater would part, but he won't; he says he wants all his money for himself, and that I've got to marry well. Besides, Reg' here her face clouded and she lowered her voice 'there are times when he looks anxious. We didn't always live in Palace Gardens. Suppose we should lose it all as quickly as we got it. Oh! she shivered and trembled. 'No, I will never, never marry a poor man.
"I can't make it out," she continued, her bright face clouded over with vexation, "somehow or other my books always do manage to get lost."
That the sky had clouded over very much in the last half-hour, and that the first drops of a heavy thunder-shower were even now sifting through the branches over my head, was doubtless the reason why no one besides myself had yet arrived upon the scene; and, should the storm continue, this evil might yet be averted, and the one person I was most anxious to see, have an opportunity to show himself at the place, without being confounded with a mass of disinterested people.
Embellish the asylum you have chosen; enlighten a people worthy of your instruction; and do you who know so well how to paint virtue and freedom, teach us to cherish them in our walls." Within a year, however, the bright sky became a little clouded. No such word had been heard in Europe since the terrible images in which Pascal had figured the doom of man.
Her rosy complexion had suffered under confinement to the house, and a marked expression of embarrassment clouded her pretty face. "I hardly know how to confess it, Mr. Armadale," she said, speaking eagerly, before Allan could utter a word, "but I certainly ventured here this morning in the hope of meeting with you.
Rickman leaned forward with clouded eyes and troubled forehead, while the young shop-men the other young shop-men thrilled with familiar and delicious emotion.
"I wonder what will happen when we have to go across," Frank had said once. "I suppose then those chaps will think they have it all their own way." And the bright faces of the girls had clouded so suddenly and they had looked so distressed that poor Frank never dared repeat the offense.
His mind grew clouded; he passed his hands two or three times across his brow, wiped his glasses with his handkerchief, and remembering that, after all, men who were as good as himself frequented the society of M. de Charlus, the Prince des Laumes and the rest, he persuaded himself that this meant, if not that they were incapable of shameful actions, at least that it was a necessity in human life, to which everyone must submit, to frequent the society of people who were, perhaps, not incapable of such actions.
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