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Guillaume, however, had well understood the mute inquiry of Pierre's eyes. His own did not waver but replied boldly, beaming with purity and loftiness: "I can tell you nothing. Yet, all the same, let us love each other, my little Pierre." And then Pierre for a moment felt that his brother was above all base anxiety, above the guilty fear of the man who trembles for himself.
"Oh, you must not think," said Mackenzie, with a certain loftiness of air even amidst his great perturbation and anxiety "you must not think I hef not foreseen all this. It wass some day or other Sheila will be sure to marry; and although I did not expect no, I did not expect that that she would marry a stranger and an Englishman, if it will please her that is enough.
It referred to the meeting represented by the deputation as having been composed principally of "the industrious classes," but added, with a seeming loftiness of condescension, that the Address should be replied to with as much attention as if it had proceeded from either of the branches of the Legislature "although," said his Excellency, "I shall express myself in plainer and more homely language."
All the defective work of the human imagination errs in wanting to make its creations too beautiful, in affording a soulless perfection, such as is manifested in human art by its decay after every period of bloom. The insensible world is not full of pure loftiness and unmixed nobility.
"Don't speak of the materialists!" "Yes, I must, so that you may realise the loftiness of my feelings for a woman, if ever I fell in love. She need not be beautiful; beauty soon fades. I should look upon her as a dear friend, a chum. I should never feel shy in her company, as with any ordinary girl.
His complexion was fair, his hair light and thin, his beard yellow, short, and pointed. He had the aspect of a Fleming, but the loftiness of a Spaniard. His demeanor in public was still, silent, almost sepulchral. He looked habitually on the ground when he conversed, was chary of speech, embarrassed, and even suffering in manner.
They had set themselves a lofty task: to prove themselves the equal of man to win privileges which they believed were maliciously denied their sex. The spirit with which they attacked their studies was illumined by the loftiness of their aim. The girl who enters college nowadays has rarely the opportunity to be either pioneer or martyr.
She had much of the patient devotion of her mother, much of the quiet fortitude of her father's nature. If not comprehending to the full the loftiness of Warner's pursuits, she still anticipated from them an ultimate success which reconciled her to all temporary sacrifices.
It seemed to me that if by any chance your soul was smirched, or made unhappy, or blackened, or any of its loftiness and its god-like quality removed, my own soul was smirched too, my own nature lowered.
"Well, if you like to encourage abominable humbug and have Allen lamed for life, I don't," said Bobus. "I shan't stay in the house with the blackguard." He stalked out of the room with great loftiness of demeanour, just as the operator was being introduced- a tall, sinewy man, with one of those strong yet meek faces often to be found among the peasantry.
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