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Instantly he stepped back a pace and stood still, that he might realise her before she became aware of him: her remembered loveliness, her new dearness. Loveliness was the quintessence of her. With his innate feeling for words, he had never even accidentally applied it to Rose. Had she, too, felt impatient? Was she coming over to breakfast for a 'surprise'?
For a moment he supported her, and in that moment, under the sense of her nearness and dearness and helplessness, the hardness of the past hour disappeared. He did not understand her. Perhaps he would never understand her. But whatever she was, she was all right. Half leading, half carrying her, he got her to the car and into it.
Even now, when everybody is complaining of the dearness of labour, and the insufferable independence of the working class, a piece of fine lace, we are told, consumes the labour of seven persons, each employed on a distinct portion of the work; and the thread, of exquisite fineness, is spun in dark rooms underground, not without injury, we may suppose, to the eyesight or health of those employed.
He complained also of the dearness of slaves, owing to the prohibition of the African traffic, telling us that formerly a slave could be bought for 120 dollars, whereas they are now difficult to procure at 400 dollars. Mr. Danin told us that he had travelled in England and the United States, and that he had now two sons completing their education in those countries.
And, in verity, I did be a little angered; but scarce that I did know it; for I did love her very great, and was stirred inwardly with her dearness and that she did look just that-wise that I knew not whether I to need to kiss her, or to shake her; and truly, how should I know; for my heart did ache that I have her to mine arms; but my brain to say that she did go over-far in the joke; and truly you to see that I did not be unreasonable, neither to be lacking of grace; for indeed I do think that I was swayed all-ways, because that I saw all the dear way that her pretty nature did work; and to conceive of her mood and to understand and be stirred; but yet to shape a little in my manhood unto hardening, and in my judgement unto sternness.
"And you'd like him to marry some 'dear sweet little girl'" he went on, reflectively "I'll tell him that you said so!" She was silent, carefully piling one or two small logs on the fire. "Dear sweet little girls are generally uncommonly vain of themselves," resumed Helmsley "And in the strength of their dearness and sweetness they sometimes fail to appreciate love when they get it. Now Mr.
Knowledge of the Lord, which, owing to the supreme dearness of its object is itself supremely dear, possesses the characteristic power of propitiating the Lord the object of knowledge and thus destroys the displeasure of the Lord due to the previous commission of sins on the part of the knowing Devotee; and at the same time obstructs the origination of further displeasure on the Lord's part, which otherwise would be caused by sins committed subsequently to the origination of such knowledge.
No more happy hours in the studio, exploring the mysteries of 'maths' and Homer, of form and colour, with his father, who seemed to know the 'Why' of everything. Worse than all no more Mummy, to make the whole world beautiful with the colours of her saris and the loveliness and the dearness of her face, and her laugh and her voice. It was all over.
On the 17th of March, 1727, Boulter, the Protestant Archbishop of Armagh, wrote to the Duke of Newcastle: "Since my arrival in this country, the famine has not ceased among the poor people. The dearness of corn last year was such that thousands of families had to quit their dwellings, to seek means of life elsewhere; many hundred perished."
I made of my tithes and living this year clear £1,200; from the dearness of labourers the outgoing expenses amounted to £900 in addition." The worst year seems to have been 1766, when the parson only got £360 clear of all expenses; but even this was not bad for those days. The architecture of the Cotswold barns is often very beautiful.
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