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She again resumed her stocking, but almost instantly laid it down a second time, and appeared wholly unable either to believe or comprehend what he said. "Denis," she at length asked, "Did you say that all is to be over between us?" "That was my insinuation," replied Denis, "The fact is, Susy, that destiny is adverse; clean against our union in the bonds of matrimonial ecstacy.
Entrusting this to the boy she indicated what he was to do with it, while the poor half-witted being seemed in an ecstacy of delight at his commission, and soon deposited the precious token inside the window of Aphiz's prison. It needed no conjuror to tell Aphiz whom that floral letter came from.
Sudden terror contorted the thin features, a sheer ecstacy of terror as white-lipped as that which marred the face of the girl who bent above him. "Maybe I've forgotten how she smiled!" he whispered fearfully. "Maybe I'll never be able to " Dryad's eyes flitted desperately around the room, along the shelves laden with those countless figures all white and finely slender, all upturned of face.
The people were filled with thoughts of heaven and hell, of the immortality of the soul and the life everlasting, of the Redeemer and the Cross of Calvary. The camp ground witnessed an annual muster of the adjacent countryside. The revival was a religious hysteria lasting ten days or two weeks. The sermons were appeals to the emotions. The songs were the outpourings of the soul in ecstacy.
When the sun sunk down the one intruder from other realms and persistent in suggestions of them it was tranced luxury to sit in the perfumed air and forget that there was any world but these enchanted islands. It was such ecstacy to dream, and dream till you got a bite. A scorpion bite.
As they sprang towards her she glanced wildly from face to face, then with a low cry flung an arm about the neck of each and would have fallen in the ecstacy of her joy had they not held her. Indeed, her knees touched the ground. As they stooped to lift her it flashed into Godwin's mind that Masouda had told Sinan that they were her brethren. The thought was followed by another.
Often have I placed them on the piano, and a few minutes later seen him enter the room, lift his nose, give a few sniffs, and then go straight to the piano, bury his nose in the violets, and hold it there in perfect ecstacy.
"Hark!" he cried, and his voice vibrated with deep and mellow clearness. "Hark to the thunder of the galloping hoofs! see see the glitter of the shield and spear! She comes-ah! Thelma! Thelma!" He raised his arms as though in ecstacy. "Glory! joy! Victory!" And, like a noble tree struck down by lightning, he fell dead!
So that with no sensible surprise there came to her in that moonlit sea of desert the sound of a voice a clear sweet tenor swelling bravely in song with the very ecstacy of pathos. It was the prison song from "Il Trovatore," and the desolation of its lifted appeal went to the heart like water to the roots of flowers. Ah! I have sigh'd to rest me. Deep in the quiet grave.
"Well, one day after I'd had dinner with Blunderbore I boasted that I could do something he couldn't do. He laughed and I knew I had him. Says I, 'Very well, I'll show you. I'm going to rip my stomach open without feeling it. We'd been eating ginger-bread, and I'd slipped a piece into my pouch." A strange light had come into Hansel's eyes, and he sighed with ecstacy "Ginger-bread!"
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