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Updated: June 23, 2025
"But, you see, I am not yet beyond the lure of gold, and should we find that mine, there might be something in it for me. We might go partners, eh?" "That would be great," Reynolds replied with enthusiasm. "But we must not leave the old prospector out." "Oh, no, that would never do. We shall see that he gets his share, providing we find him.
In their majestic and sunny beauty they seemed to beckon and to lure you on. Even those who had been for a long time accustomed to this enchanting region would have been impressed to- day with its exalted beauty. Grand old Nature is a woman, and has her feminine peculiarities; she rejoices in her beaux jours, even as other women.
Some time, before his abandonment on the island, he had been a well-brought-up and petted animal. Months or years of wild life had estranged him from humanity, yet at the human touch the old devotion woke again. The thing now was to lure him back to camp and restore him to the happy service of his gods.
That's the question, never mind "why." Could I lure him into the library the billiard room the conservatory? I doubted it, and I doubted still more what I should do with him when I got him there. The bishop is a grand and stately ecclesiastic of the mediæval type, broad-chested, deep-voiced, martial of bearing.
You don't look fit to walk five miles." But Chester was off. Walk five miles! Pooh! He could walk twenty with hope to lure him on. Albemarle Street finally frayed off into a real country road. Chester was glad to find himself out in the country once more, with the great golden fields basking on either side and the wooded hills beyond, purple with haze.
And now, as I consulted my watch, she leaned toward me, and suddenly threw aside her reserve. 'Can you guess, she asked eagerly, 'how he came to meet those women in that way? It was a meeting, was it not? 'No doubt of that; and it was also a scheme to entrap him. 'But how did they do it? How did they lure him to that bridge those two women? I could not suppress a smile. 'Can you not guess?
I want to know all that you have done, all that you have thought even, while I have been away." She tried to resume the endless succession of questions by means of which she was accustomed to lure him into speaking of himself. But she put them far less spontaneously, far less adroitly, than usual. Her one all-absorbing anxiety in entering that room was not an anxiety to be trifled with.
That's the question, never mind "why." Could I lure him into the library the billiard room the conservatory? I doubted it, and I doubted still more what I should do with him when I got him there. The bishop is a grand and stately ecclesiastic of the mediæval type, broad-chested, deep-voiced, martial of bearing.
I remember how all night long in the North region, where the light does not leave the sky, I looked out at the strange beauty of the white night and felt all the desolateness of the world, all the exiledom of man upon it. There was no lure, no temptation in that.
She had begun kissing him good-night, and now more and more warmth crept into the embrace until he found himself trying to avoid it. He was no prig, and Thérèse was attractive, yet the distaste he felt for the situation neutralised her power to lure him. Moreover, she showed him a side which convinced him of what he had hitherto suspected that Thérèse had all the instincts of a cocotte.
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