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Updated: July 11, 2025
The emptiness of the house took away our pleasure a great deal, though I liked it the better; for that I plainly discern the musick is the better, by how much the house the emptier. Thence home, and again to W. Hewer's, and had a pretty little treat, and spent an hour or two, my voice being wholly taken away with my cold, and so home and to bed. 27th.
Moreover, your man who wants to drink up the cask as a preliminary to buying a pint will injure the merchant, with his dubious sampling; but philosophy knows no such danger; you may drink your fill, but this cask grows no emptier, and its owner suffers no loss.
"Let me write it for you," he said, and pulling a book from his pocket, tore out a leaf and wrote the sentence on it. "There keep the paper and study it, and say it to me in the morning." I have the paper still; long years have passed: it is only a crumpled little yellow fragment; but the world would be poorer and emptier to me if it were destroyed.
As we got into the town, the tile roofs seemed to tumble uphill one upon another, in the oddest disorder; but for all their scrambling, they did not attain above the knees of the cathedral, which stood, upright and solemn, over all. As the streets drew near to this presiding genius, through the market- place under the Hotel de Ville, they grew emptier and more composed.
He would not applaud a banquet given in the midst of a famine, although it might be clearly proved that the money spent by the banqueters was their own, that those who were perishing of famine had not been robbed of it, that their bellies were none the emptier because those of the banqueters were full, and that the cookery gave a stimulus to gastronomic art.
I could hear no more, and I dared not show my curiosity. Somewhat abruptly, it seemed to me, the little party finished their luncheon and departed. The place began to grow emptier, I took careful stock of the few people that were left, and decided that the coast was clear. I returned to Adele and her friend. "Tell us both quickly," she said in a low tone, "exactly how things stand.
Then, quite suddenly, he stopped, stepped into a nearby doorway and stood motionless. There was no change in his expression except that possibly his eyes became a shade emptier. After a while he left the doorway and moved on. But it was with new purpose and with new plans.
Could one's life be emptier than hers emptier, more intolerable, more humiliating? "Take this note to that address," she said, putting the envelope and a coin in the boy's hand. "Wait for an answer." The boy shut the letter in his book, which he thrust into his breast pocket, buttoning his coat over it. He nodded and turned away. Still seated, Laura watched him moving towards the door.
You will burn yourself up in it. Whew! whew! away with it! But Waldemar Daa could not let it go. 'The fiery steeds in the stable, where were they? The old gold and silver plate in cupboard and chest, where was that? The cattle, the land, the castle itself? Yes, they could all be melted down in the crucible, but yet no gold would come. 'Barn and larder got emptier and emptier.
"The church a little mouldier. Farlingford a little emptier. Old Godbold is gone the last of the Godbolds of Farlingford, which means another empty cottage in the street." "I saw it as I came down," answered Barebone. "They look like last year's nests those empty cottages. But you have been all well, here at the rectory, since we sailed? The cottages well, they are only cottages after all."
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