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Why, only the other day my father said " "Excuse me. What is the average price of a walking-dress from a leading Paris house?" "Thirty pounds." "And an evening dress?" "Oh, anything, from fifty upwards." He picked up a few pieces of quartz from the canvas sheet. "Here is your walking-dress," he said, handing her a lump weighing about a pound.
It's all the Jesuits' doing. Mr. Neal told me the whole story. 'Oh! it's tyranny of course. And the book's only a fraction of the truth, a little Darwinian yeast leavening a lump of theology. But they're quite right. They can't help it. Eleanor looked at Lucy Foster and laughed. 'Dangerous to say those things before Miss Foster. 'Does Miss Foster know anything about it? he said coolly.
The tears were streaming down his face and he shook all over. "I can't stop!" he gasped and sobbed. "I can't I can't!" "You can!" shouted Mary. "Half that ails you is hysterics and temper just hysterics hysterics hysterics!" and she stamped each time she said it. "I felt the lump I felt it," choked out Colin. "I knew I should.
Then you presented God as full of inflexible purposes, but the oftener you told us that we could not help ourselves, and that there was no use in resisting, the move I felt like resisting. The idea of cutting and carving character out of quivering human hearts as if they were marble! The idea of putting one, like a lump of ore, into a crucible, and then coolly sitting by to see what becomes of it!
Over at the Gap that night Hale sat in his office with a piece of white paper and a lump of black coal on the table in front of him. His foreman had brought the coal to him that day at dusk. He lifted the lump to the light of his lamp, and from the centre of it a mocking evil eye leered back at him.
Rosa will never cease waiting until you come. Tell her, for me " Norine withdrew softly out of earshot. There were a lump in her throat and a pain in her breast. She had acquired a peculiar and affectionate interest in this unhappy girl whom she had never seen, and she had learned to respect O'Reilly's love.
Howlowlwhitit that's wit, there's a fowl!" And so singing, he threw the book in Richard's face, spread out his great, silent, soft wings, and sped away into the depths of the tree. When the book struck Richard, he found that it was only a lump of wet moss. While talking to the owl he had spied a hollow behind one of the branches.
Indeed, she was not in the least aware of his presence, and Diamond saw that he could do nothing for her without help. So taking a lump of barley-sugar from his pocket, which he had bought for her as he came along, and laying it beside her, he left the place, having already made up his mind to go and see the tall gentleman, Mr.
In this they resemble the diamond; when the chemist has found that the diamond affords no other substance by its combustion than pure carbonic-acid gas, and that the only chemical difference between the costliest diamond and a lump of pure charcoal is a proportion of hydrogen less than 1/100000 part of the weight of the substance, can the chemist make you a diamond?
She picked up a spear, jabbed its stone head firmly into the lump of meat, and thrust the meat into the edge of the fire, as far as it could go without burning the wood of the spear shaft. It took her a very few minutes to realize that her idea was nothing less than an inspiration.
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