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It is simply incomprehensible, but it amounts to this you must not refuse this cheque. If you do, I I shall be compelled to to refuse to go on with my lessons," and Hélène held out the cheque toward him. Von Barwig looked at her; his sweet melancholy smile deepened as he slowly shook his head.
Hence the jealousy that was clearly burning in Daphne, that she was not indeed even trying to hide from the shrewd eyes of her friend. Mrs. Verrier's advice not to make Roger Barnes "too important" had called up a flash of colour in the girl's cheeks. But she did not resent it in words; rather her silence deepened, till Mrs.
His house is a cozy, pretty affair, freshly painted and nestled under great embowering trees. Close by is his grave. Here, too, barges were in waiting to take us to the Winslow House, four miles distant on Mount Kearsarge. Before we had left the train the soft rays of the setting sun had changed the hill-sides to amethyst and deepened the purple gloom of the valleys.
She could he content with the shallow sparkle of the stream of their life together, if it deepened, now and then, into still pools like this. She resisted the impulse to call him up on the telephone, and a stronger one to go straight to him at his office. She'd wait until he came home to her.
So, making not the Profession of Faith, and what need, since all her life was worship, the Lady Arjemand turned into his arms like a child. And the night deepened. Morning, with its arrows of golden light that struck the river to splendour! Morning, with its pure breath, its sunshine of joy, and the koels fluting in the Palace gardens! Morning, divine and new from the hand of the Maker!
Wasn't it pretty nearly a case of 'first sight'?" Austin flushed. "It certainly was with me," he said quietly. "And haven't you quarrelled from the very beginning, too?" The boy's flush deepened. "Yes," he said, still more quietly, "we seemed to misunderstand and antagonize each other." "Even to-day?" Then as Austin did not answer, "Now, tell me truthfully whose fault is it?"
"Stupid work, fishing," he said, half-aloud, when he had waded as far as he could without getting wet, for the water had suddenly deepened and curved round out of sight, all calm and still beneath the boughs shading it on either side. "Seems very easy, though, when you watch old Rayburn. He always knows where to throw."
Moss nodded as they drove past the lodge, and Ben touched his torn hat-brim in the most dignified manner, though he could not suppress a broad grin of delight, which deepened into a chuckle when Lita went off at a brisk trot along the smooth road toward town.
"Yes, sir," Sir James Danby had been known to say, "if the river could be deepened right through the town it would be the making of the place." "And the spoiling of my grounds," said the doctor, "so I'm glad it runs over the solid rock." This paradise of a garden was the one into which Dexter darted, and in which Dan'l Copestake was grumbling that morning
The bees, however, did not suffer this to happen, and they stopped their excavations in due time; so that the basins, as soon as they had been a little deepened, came to have flat bottoms; and these flat bottoms, formed by thin little plates of the vermilion wax having been left ungnawed, were situated, as far as the eye could judge, exactly along the planes of imaginary intersection between the basins on the opposite sides of the ridge of wax.
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