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Only once on our way did Larry speak. "Cheer up, darlin'," he said to her, "it's a long way yet before the finish. An' are you thinking that Lugur and Yolara are going to pull this thing off? Are you?" The handmaiden only looked at him, eyes love and sorrow filled. "They are!" said Larry. "They are! Like HELL they are!" The Meeting of Titans
Whereas a single flight of brains will reach and embrace her; give you the savour of Truth, the right use of the senses, Reality's infinite sweetness; for these things are in philosophy; and the fiction which is the summary of actual Life, the within and without of us, is, prose or verse, plodding or soaring, philosophy's elect handmaiden.
"Wast sure, Charity, that the howl we heard from the forest was the yell of the beaten hound?" demanded a handmaiden of Ruth, of a blue-eyed companion, who seemed equally well disposed to contribute her share of evidence in support of any exciting legend. "It might have been other," was the answer "though the hunters do speak of their having beaten the pup for restiveness."
Janice finally came in with a glass of something that foamed and fizzed, and the victim of late hours drank that and came to her senses again. Then she recollected. "My! but I had a good time last night!" she said, putting her hand to her head. "What time is it now, anyhow?" "Breakfast time," cried the handmaiden. "You’ll have just long enough to eat and dress leisurely before you go out."
Consequently, it is easy to imagine what a tremor and excitement seized her when, one afternoon, as she sat waiting for her tea, a coach from the Blue Lion dashed or, at least, almost dashed up to the front door, a young lady got out, and the next minute the handmaiden, Mary Anne, threw open the door of the parlor, announcing, without the least preface, "Your niece, mum, from 'Meriker."
Into the eyes of Lakla I saw creep a doubt, a wavering; as though deep within her the foundations of her own belief were none too firm. She hesitated, turning upon O'Keefe gaze in which rested more than suggestion of appeal! And Yolara saw, too, for she flushed with triumph, stretched a finger toward the handmaiden. "Look!" she cried. "Look! Why, even she does not believe!"
It was vulgarity advertising itself in terms of good taste. She had made modesty the handmaiden of blatant immodesty, and the daring impudence of it all fairly stunned the painter. "Oh dear!" she said, watching his face, "I fear you don't like it, at all and I thought it such a beautiful little gown. You told me to wear whatever I pleased, you know."
'I'll gang to the tavern too, said our friend Dinmont, 'for I am a stranger also, and on business e'en sic like. 'Na, said the handmaiden, 'an he see the gentleman, he'll see the simple body too; but, Lord's sake, dinna say it was me sent ye there!
"It's the red-headed girl over at Grubbling's," she continues to herself. "Well, anyhow, she's an honest, kind-hearted crature, and I'll not forget it of her." Glory has made another friend. "Well, Glory McWhirk, this is very pretty doings indeed!" began Mrs. Grubbling, meeting the little handmaiden at the parlor door. "So this is the way, is it, when my back is turned for a minute?
"And now that the first torrent of your tears has dwindled to a little stream, you have time to remember me! I thank my lord for the notice he deigns to give his handmaiden, but I need it not. Well why are you here?" Zoroaster stood up to his height and folded his arms deliberately, facing Nehushta, and he spoke calmly, though there was in his voice the dulness of a great and sudden pain.
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