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She told him how Goldsmith and Block had driven a good bargain of their own, hiring her at her chorus-girl's salary for the last two delirious weeks; how insanely hard she'd worked, and how, at last, after the opening performance, Galbraith had offered her a job in New York when he should be ready for her.
Still, she was faithful to me, but we were husband and wife in name only. "Time passed on, and she made a few friends, and went out occasionally. Then, who should come by accident to the little town where we lived but Sir Geoffrey Kynaston. I was madly, insanely jealous, and I forbade my wife to meet him. She declined to obey me, and she was quite right to do so.
To smatter the tongues of men and angels, to dabble in the dreadful sciences, to juggle with pillars and pyramids and toss up the planets like balls, this is that inner audacity and indifference which the human soul, like a conjurer catching oranges, must keep up forever. This is that insanely frivolous thing we call sanity.
Trent went in silence, his thoughts whirling, dancing insanely to a chorus of 'Fool! fool! All that he alone knew, all that he guessed and suspected of this affair, rushed through his brain in a rout; but the touch of her unnerved hand upon his arm never for an instant left his consciousness, filling him with an exaltation that enraged and bewildered him.
He said, "That's the best thing I've heard about him yet. You believe him?" I said, "Yes. The man is extremely sensitive and almost insanely frank." I let it sink in. Presently he owned that it was the platonic version of the affair that as a man of the world he had found it so hard to swallow "All that nonsense, you know, about the Belfry." He meditated a while.
Marion stretched out her hand to the fire. Her insanely polished nails glittered like jewels. She said in that indifferent tone: "Well, it wasn't so bad." Some passion shook him. "Mother! Mother! To think of him bringing that woman into this house to meet you and Ellen!" "Hush, oh hush! He does not know." "But, mother! He ought to! Anyone could see " "What she was. Yes, poor woman.
Men, whom fortune has surprised with a reward for which they can find no adequate ground in their actions, are, for the most part, very apt to forget the necessary connection between cause and effect, and to insert in the natural consequences of things a higher miraculous power to which, as Caesar to his fortune, they at last insanely trust. Such a character was Egmont.
He felt insanely inclined to pick up her little boots, one after the other, and go down on his knees and kiss them; her hat was a flopsy turban, from under the brim of which the most adorable of golden-brown curls half escaped to throw kiss-shadows on her rosy cheeks. And Gloria's eyes! This time there was no door between them, nor even the memory of a door.
I hope poor Mr. Powyss may not be so ill as you fear." He turned away a tumult of jealous rage within him. A deliberate lie he thought it; there could be no doubt of her guilt now. And yet, insanely inconsistent as it seems, he had never loved her more passionately than in that hour. He turned to go without a word. He had reached the door.
We conquered them then, both by land and sea; and when, finally, peace was made, we required them to pay us tribute, and we continued to exact it from them for twenty years. They are a conquered nation; and now this miserable army has forced its way insanely over the Alps, just to throw itself into our hands. They meet us reduced in numbers, and exhausted in resources and strength.
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