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And he has tried to rob me of my position, only it is a Dominion one the rascal!" The captain was becoming incoherent. He drew his sleeve across his eyes. "But a lady!" he continued, with forced gaiety a moment later, "I do not know your business, monsieur, but I can guess, perhaps " "But you must not misunderstand me," I interposed. "She is not "
Next, however, comes a fiction so maniacally gross, so incoherent, and so rife with internal contradictions, as to involve its own exposure, literally shrinking from its own intelligible enunciation, burrowing in sentences kept aloof from the text, and calling upon foot-notes to cover it. The case will speak for itself.
It was a low, sweet voice, with more of weariness in it than of humility. If he chose to blame her, she was ready to take the blame; but it was Westray who now stammered some incoherent apologies. Would she kindly tell Miss Joliffe that he would be in for dinner at one o'clock, and that he was quite indifferent as to what was provided for him.
But, under his incoherent masonry, he observed the beautiful forms, the precious marbles, the architectural combinations, the symmetrical taste of an anterior and superior art; he felt that his own work was rude.
"Adieu, my dreams of repose, so desirable after the quantity of active enjoyment I've had! Well, where is the lost child?" "Where is the lost child?" repeats Frank, desperately. "Where have you got him?" "In the kitchen." "Why in the kitchen?" "How's baby?" demands Mrs. Sallie, with the incoherent suddenness of her sex, and running halfway down the steps to meet the nurse.
The Hell-cats were coming, they said; they were on the other side of the river, burning mills, destroying all they could put their hands on, man, woman and child. Sybil, alarmed for her father, put to them some questions, to which they gave incoherent answers. It was however clear that they had seen no one, and knew nothing of their own experience.
The bruised reed, the smoking flax! He fell upon his knees, and his soul seemed to melt in a flood of anguished pity. He wept passionately, with an incoherent clamour in his heart of 'God God God! The storm wore itself out, but he knelt there long, with his hands on the window-sill, and his face buried in them.
'There's something about me too, answered Margaret, 'and I cannot help caring. 'About you? 'Me and Mr. Van Torp the article is written by some one who hates him that's clear! and you know I don't like him; but that's no reason why I should be dragged in. She was rather incoherent, and Lady Maud took the paper from her hand quietly, and found the article at once.
The cordial she swallowed, far from calming, increased the disturbance of her thoughts, and produced an intoxication; during which, she talked in an incoherent strain, laughed and wept by turns, and acted other extravagances, which are known to be symptoms of the hysterical affection.
It's true it's true," said Louisa Pallant. "She appals me!" I laid my hand on my poor friend's; I uttered, with the intention of checking and soothing her, the first incoherent words that came into my head and I drew her toward a bench a few steps away. She dropped upon it; I placed myself near her and besought her to consider well what she said.
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