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And you know, it's still increasing. I hope to make it long enough to reach from Paris to Versailles." Gervaise had returned to her seat, disenchanted and thinking everything very ugly. She smiled to be polite to the Lorilleuxs. The complete silence about her marriage bothered her. It was the sole reason for her having come. The Lorilleuxs were treating her as some stranger brought in by Coupeau.
His own, at the moment, lent it a festive readiness of welcome that might well, in a disenchanted eye, have turned to paint and facility. So frank an appeal for participation so outspoken a recognition of the holiday vein in human nature struck refreshingly on a mind jaded by prolonged hard work in surroundings made for the discipline of the senses.
"How long this continued I cannot say, but I suppose only for a minute. So far as my own perception of time's flight is concerned, however, it might have been an age. "I was awakened by the harsh crackling of some dry sticks upon which the boy had stepped as he continued to shuffle forward. The recovery was as sudden as the attack. In an instant I was disenchanted.
Hampden, and Fred and the 'solicitous brother. Fred is a hopeless dyspeptic, who can give his mind to nothing else but his digestion, which unfortunate circumstance frets his new disenchanted parent and provokes his no longer solicitous uncle.
I'm afraid you haven't found Saint Winifred's so jolly as you expected; disenchanted already, eh?" "O Walter, I'm very, very miserable," said Charlie, overcome by his brother's tender manner towards him; and leaning his head on Walter's shoulder he sobbed aloud. "What is it, Charlie?" said Walter, gently stroking his light hair. "Never be afraid to tell me anything.
No man, unless he be a downright coxcomb, will ever admit to one woman that another woman has loved him. To his wife perhaps. But how much Fanny Meyrick cared for me I had never sought to know. After the dismal ending of that moonlight boat-row I had been already disenchanted for some time before I had scarce called at Meyrick Place more than civility required.
Rest, Joy, Peace, Faith, Love, Light these words occur with such persistency in hymns and prayers that an observer might think they formed the staple of Christian experience. But on coming to close quarters with the actual life of most of us, how surely would he be disenchanted. I do not think we ourselves are aware of how much our religious life is Made up of phrases;
Such a cold-blooded spirit, too! to come upon us unawares in order to spy out everything, for fear he might get taken in! You were very attentive and flattering in the city, sir, but now you are disenchanted. Well, so am I." Under the influence of this train of thought she grew more and more silent. The sun was sinking westward in undimmed splendor, but her face was clouded.
The two writers have had the same visions of the anomalies and the horrors of existence; but, where Tchekoff has only a disenchanted smile, Andreyev has stopped, dismayed; the sensation of horror and suffering which springs from his stories has become an obsession with him; it does not penetrate merely the souls of his heroes, but, as in Poe, it penetrates even the descriptions of nature.
Abington, with whom Maria was much entertained; she recited two epilogues for us with exquisite wit and grace she spoke with frankness and feeling of her career, when often after the triumph of success in some brilliant character, splendidly dressed, in the blaze of light, with thunders of applause, she quitted the theatre for her poor little lonely lodging and admirably described her disenchanted, dispirited sensations.
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