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Updated: June 13, 2025
You could not certainly have been going on as you have these six months past with a man you did not care for." "Well, I do care for him, 'sort o'," said Sally; "but is that any reason I should break my heart for his going? that's too much for any man." "But, Sally, you must know that Moses loves you." "I'm not so sure," said Sally, freakishly tossing her head and laughing.
True, it was always happening that one of us would be singled out at any moment, freakishly, and without regard to his own preferences, to wrestle with the inflections of some idiotic language long rightly dead; while another, from some fancied artistic tendency which always failed to justify itself, might be told off without warning to hammer out scales and exercises, and to bedew the senseless keys with tears of weariness or of revolt.
Fate, which had freakishly hurled a ship's crew out of the void upon this particular bit of coast, as freakishly preserved them. The very excess of its fury worked this wonder.
In plain fact, they were considering nothing more lofty than their own material interests, and upon this point their distinguished statesmen did not feel the need of seeking information or advice from the Western lawyer who had just been so freakishly picked out of a frontier town to take charge of the destinies of the United States.
Again I felt my heart choke my throat as I read: "I, John Cowles I, Ellen Meriwether take thee take thee until death do us part." I handed her a pencil. She wrote slowly, freakishly, having her maiden will; and it seemed to me still a week to a letter as she signed. But at last her name stood in full E-l-l-e-n M-e-r-i-w-e-t-h-e-r. "General," I said, "this indenture witnesseth!
Still the line of cleavage was not patriotic nor even international. Folk had picked one or the other to win freakishly on hunches of all sorts, tips of all manners, pure fancy, or "inside information" of the hollowest sort. As to looks, pedigree, or performance, there was hardly a pin to choose between the pair.
Something that my wife had hinted in one of our talks about the lovers freakishly presented itself to my mind, and I said, "There is a way, and a very practical way, to put an end to the anomaly you feel in an engagement which doesn't imply a marriage." "And what is that?" he asked, not very hopefully; but he dried his eyes and calmed himself.
She was a genuine child of Italy, full of feeling, spirit, and genius, alive in every nerve to the finger-tips; and under the tropical sunshine of her mistress's favor she grew as an Italian rose-bush does, throwing its branches freakishly over everything in a wild labyrinth of perfume, brightness, and thorns.
They hearkened yet to every call of the wind, who cared for them no longer but only played freakishly with them and broke their rest. I felt sorry for the leaves as I watched them in that dull, weird twilight, and angry in a petulant fashion that almost made me laugh with the wind that would not leave them in peace.
Gaston of Béarn, romantic figure in those grey latitudes, pale, black-eyed, freakishly bearded, dressed in bright green, rode his way singing, announced himself to the lady as the Child of Love; and when he saw her kissed her foot. 'Starry Wonder of the North, he said, kneeling, 'I bring fuel to your ineffable fires.
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