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Dexter turned her eyes in the direction indicated by her husband, and replied in an indifferent manner: "Oh, yes." "Mrs. Florence is looking at you now. Won't you go over and see her?" "After a while," replied Mrs. Dexter. Then turning to Mr. Hendrickson, she said: "These summer resorts are the dullest places imaginable without congenial friends." "So I should think.
'I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man.
The dullest could see this was a house that had a pair of hands in divers foreign places: a well-beloved house its image fondly dwelt on by many travellers. Here lived an ancestor of mine, who was a herd of men.
It seemed strange to realise that girls cast in such graceful moulds as Dorothy and Irene should be so deficient in tact as to gush over the humiliation of another, and check the rhapsodies of successful candidates by such significant coughings and frownings as must have been obvious to the dullest faculties.
But his face and figure are before us, almost as distinctly as if he were present; and it will be only the dullest forgetfulness which can ever cease to connect with this Bridge the name of the accomplished scholar, the experienced diplomatist, the untiring worker, the cordial and ever-helpful friend, Mr. Henry C. Murphy.
His face would have betrayed his uneasiness to the dullest onlooker. "Have you any objection to my seeing him in his own room?" Palliser inquired. "It does him harm to see people," Tembarom said, with nervous brusqueness. "It worries him." Palliser smiled a quiet but far from agreeable smile. He enjoyed what he put into it. "Quite so; best to keep him quiet," he returned.
He'll exhaust his nature in a day and be bowled over by the dullest regular donkey-engine with paint on his cheeks and a nodding topknot." "What is this expedition 'we' propose?" De Craye was advised in his heart to spare Miss Middleton any allusion to honeymoons. "Merely a game to cure dulness." "Ah!" Willoughby acquiesced. "A month, you said?" "One'd like it to last for years." "Ah!
The ceiling was domed like a sky and painted in sunny Italian scenery. It was not dull in the book-room on the dullest day. "Did you come together?" Mrs. Morres asked curiously. "I swear we did not," Sir Robin replied, with mock intensity. "I came from the east, Miss Gray from the west. We met on your doorstep." "You looked as if you were enjoying a joke when you came in."
"All, all! even the dullest and deadest-seeming things are vibrating, palpitating with the very madness of life! He set the world in my heart, and oh, how I loved! how I loved the world!" "It is a wonderful world," said Lefevre, trying to speak cheerfully; "and you will take delight in it again when this abnormal fit of depression is over."
But he, whose faintest word had once breathed fire into the dullest, had now poured out his spirit upon frigid and lifeless matter. No man answered no man moved. Boabdil alone, clinging to the shadow of hope, turned at last towards the audience.
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