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All told, their meetings were not very numerous, nor very private. But every half-hour they spent in each other's company seemed to do the work of a month of intimacy. July hastened to an end, but an autumn Session brought Goring up to town in November, and three months of absence found him and Mildred still at the same point.
Or her life in the Valley, surrounded by the unearthly light of the Theban hills, her life of intellectual excitement and strange intimacy with things and people which the world had forgotten for thousands of years? Michael felt her abstraction. He put his hand on the top of hers, which held the jewel, and pressed it. "Come back," he said, laughing.
On New Year's evening, during your absence, I called here and saw your daughter, when she reproached me for having debauched you, stating in what manner she had seen the whole affair. Since then, I have had no opportunity of informing you that she knew our intimacy. 'Still my mother uttered not a single word!
Surely there isn't a possible inn in this remoteness? or have they build one for travelers who come here in winter and spring?" "Our inn will be a little above Olympia." The green valley seemed closing about them, as if anxious to take them to itself, to keep them in its closest intimacy, with a gentle jealousy.
It was no David and Jonathan friendship which grew between Ishmael and Killigrew such as may sometimes be found among boys, but it was an intimacy that, in its aloof way, was to add something to the pattern of their lives that neither would have found without it.
Littleton, whom they without exception regarded as interesting in appearance, but they had no leisure for immediate intimacy with her. Having been introduced to her and having scheduled her in their minds as a new and desirable acquaintance, they went their ways, trusting chiefly to time to renew the meeting and to supply the evidence as to the stranger's social value.
It was not an easy thing to do. He had not grown intimate with Dirk Colson; in fact, that misguided young fellow rather resented any attempt at intimacy. He was, however, acquainted with Sallie Calkins; the numerous trips he had made to their room during Mark's illness had brought him into such constant and pleasant contact with Sallie and her brother that they looked upon him as a tried friend.
"You have dined three times within the last three months in Manchester Square, and I don't know any other man, certainly no other young man, who has had such strong proof of intimacy from my father." "Yes, and I know my advantages. But I have been there as your friend, not as his." "He doesn't care twopence about my friends.
His friendship with this child, their rides, their companionship, had been almost on the plane of boy with boy; her character invited that kind of intimacy. And so he wondered what to say; for her demand had been explicit, and she demanded candor in return. At that moment he welcomed the appearance of even Ivus Niles. That sooty prophet of ill appeared around a bend in the road ahead.
M'Leod asked, if it was not wrong in Orrery to expose the defects of a man with whom he lived in intimacy. JOHNSON. 'Why no, Sir, after the man is dead; for then it is done historically . He added, 'If Lord Orrery had been rich, he would have been a very liberal patron. His conversation was like his writings, neat and elegant, but without strength.
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