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My excuse for quoting thus fully from this most characteristic letter, and, indeed, for dwelling at all upon these closing incidents of the Yorick and Eliza episode, is, that in their striking illustration of the soft, weak, spiritually self-indulgent nature of the man, they assist us, far more than many pages of criticism would do, to understand one particular aspect of his literary idiosyncrasy.
It was this idea of the episode which was possibly in store for her in New York, and from which her present companion would be so completely excluded, that worked upon her now with a rapid transition, urging her to grant him what he asked, so that in advance she should have made up for what she might not do for him later. But most of all she disliked his thinking she was engaged to some one.
However, your excellent comedy renders you worthy of adoration. Now, suppose we do not waste our time." "You are right: it is an episode, and all the more agreeable for being impromptu." I can well recollect that I found it a delightful episode.
This episode, threatening as it was for a time, drew in its train results the most happy, revealing with unprecedented vividness to most, both the original nature of the Constitution as not a compact, and also the might which national sentiment had attained since the War of 1812.
And the dancer had been right; one of her legs was badly broken: she would never dance again. Evening papers reported that Harman was "lingering." He was lingering the next day. He was lingering the next week, and the end of a month saw him still "lingering." Then I went down to Capri, where for he had been after all the merest episode to me I was pleased to forget all about him.
"Allow me to cancel my debt." As he received it, their fingers met, and a hot flush rushed over the lawyer's weary face. He bit his lip, and recovered himself before she observed his emotion. "That alms-giving episode is destined to yield an inestimable harvest of benefits. But I must hurry away.
Still the voice was without emotion; calm, colourless. Fired with wrath, Spurlock recounted the Canton episode. "She travelled alone; and she is the purest woman God ever permitted to inhabit the earth. What! you know so little of that child? She ran away from you. Somebody tricked you back yonder baited you for spite. She ran away from you; and now I can easily understand why.
Steele, when we are once more in our rooms, which conveniently adjoin. "No, he can be conspicuously disagreeable when he likes." I have in mind the "baranca" episode. "What do you suppose makes him so absent-minded and constrained, Blanche?" "Simple perversity, very likely." I stand in the communicating doorway, brushing a jacket. I am conscious that Mrs.
It was different with Felix Mendelssohn, that halcyon master, who, on account of his lighter, purer, happier soul, quickly acquired admiration, and was equally quickly forgotten: as the beautiful EPISODE of German music.
Types of English Beauty. Miss ARCHER Miss Nellie Simmons. Mrs. "The young are eager for martyrdom." My friends make fun of my weakness for the colour of yellow. I confess that I adore it, notwithstanding that I have good reason to detest it. Truly, human nature is a bundle of contradictions! I love yellow because of a certain episode in my life which occurred when I was but eight years of age.
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