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I must hope that I may at some future time rise from purgatory to paradise; the fresh air of my Seelisberg will perhaps help me to this. I do not deny that I should like to meet Beatrice there. In all other respects things are going badly and crookedly. Poor Klindworth has been ill all along, and the fact that I could undertake nothing with him has deprived me of a great pleasure.
"P.S. I've been writing in an awful hurry, and that's the reason the letters are rather crooked here and there. "P.S. But you mustn't mind about that. Though I may write a little crookedly, my heart is all straight, and I am "Always your faithful "ANNA. "P.S. Oh, good gracious! I had almost forgot thoughtless thing that I am.
They know their business, but are ignorant of everything which is outside it. So that to preserve their self-conceit they question everything, are crudely and crookedly critical. They appear to be sceptics and are in reality simpletons; they swamp their wits in interminable arguments.
The stairs to the crypt go through the side wings of the Renaissance tribune above with a crookedly set room on each side, with little windows in the walls, one of which is blocked by the marble sheeting, while those towards the crypt are also walled up, showing that the structure is early, and is probably Poppo's.
His gaze followed them until they vanished over the edge of the big plain above the river valley. Then, smiling crookedly, he turned back into the cabin. Two men one of them the tall man who had ridden away to return with the news that Lawler and the sheriff were riding northward were draped on chairs watching the outlaw chief.
And you look now as if somebody's ghost had riz and hollered 'Boo! at you. For the land sakes, Whit, what IS it?" The captain drew his hand across his forehead. "Ghost?" he repeated absently. "No, I haven't SEEN a ghost. There! there! don't mind me. I ain't real well to-day, I guess." He smiled crookedly. "Don't you want to hear about my vote-grabbin' cruise?" asked Tidditt.
He is going to give a series of Plain Talks to Workingmen this winter, and of course he wants the Clarion to cover them. What do you think, Padre?" "I think they will be eminently sensible talks and well worth listening to," said I promptly. The Butterfly Man smiled crookedly, and shot me a freighted glance. "Of course," said Laurence, easily. "Where's your father these days, Mary Virginia?"
If she failed in any one of these roles disaster was bound to follow. But to succeed in them all, when there was no love to strengthen her, was by no means easy. Always she felt a great emptiness, and a disappointment that her life had been so crookedly fashioned: sometimes she even felt degraded, and wondered if she were doing right, after all.
The river, which was a succession of rapids, was here deflected toward the right bank by a rocky reef. The whole body of water, rushing crookedly into the narrow passage, accelerated its speed frightfully and was up-flung into huge waves, white and wrathful. This was the dread Mane of the White Horse, and here an even heavier toll of dead had been exacted.
They are so honeycombed with insincerity and the vice of thought, that by-and-by all colours are as one, all pathways the same; because, whichever hue of light breaks upon their world they see it through the grey-cloaked mist of falsehood; and whether the path be good or bad they would still walk in it crookedly.
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