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But the situation had its compensation. To be snatched from the maw of death was well worth a little bodily suffering, only it was unfortunate that he should miss the hanging of the Beaver. And so he mused, till his eyes chanced to fall upon Batard, head between fore paws and stretched on the ground asleep. And their Leclere ceased to muse.
"To be introduced to your tragic muse?" said the doctor. "Yes," said Mr. Hervey: "I must have your opinion of her before I devote myself." "My opinion! but of whom? Of Lady Delacour?" "No; but of a young lady whom you will see with her." "Is she handsome?" "Beautiful!" "And young?" "And young." "And graceful?" "The most graceful person you ever beheld."
Ruth's arm trembled and her step faltered, but he was too far away in thought to be observant. He saw rifts in clouds sunshine. The future was not so black. All the money he earned serving McClintock and the muse could be laid away. Then, in a few years, he and Ruth might fare forth in comfort and security. After five or six years it would not be difficult to hide in Italy or in France.
Pardon this digression, my friends, but an allusion to the muse of poetry did not seem to me to be inconsistent with our gathering here.
In leaving England, Fielding dropped all correspondence and connection with his native country. He parted with the woman at Rouen, leaving no trace behind him by which she might follow him, as she wished to do. She never returned to England, but died a twelvemonth afterwards in Switzerland. "As to me, I had only to muse day and night upon the possible destiny of this beloved fugitive.
Addison furnished all the papers marked with any Letters of the Muse CLIO; and which were generally most admired. Tickell, who had no kindness for Sir Richard Steel, meanly supposes that he marked his paper out of precaution against Sir Richard; which was an ill-natur'd insinuation; for in the conclusion of the Spectators, he acknowledges to Mr.
I don't know whether I make myself clear?" he appealed. "Yes, perfectly," I said. "It is very curious." He said in a kind of muse, "I don't know just where I was." Then he began again, "Oh, yes! It was at the ceremony down there in the library. Some of the country people came in; I suppose they thought they ought, and I suppose they wanted to; it didn't matter to me.
There was again a long pause, in which the Prince seemed to muse deeply. At length he spoke. "Ramorny, I have a scruple in this matter; but if I name it to thee, the devil of sophistry, with which thou art possessed, will argue it out of me, as it has done many others.
As I read thus far aloud, Tascher interrupted me, snatching the paper from my hands, and continued thus: "Then and there to mope, muse, and be ennuyé until such time as active service may again recall him to the army. My dear Burke, I am really sorry for you. Wars and campaigning may be indeed they are very fine things; but as the means, not the end.
And presently, after this cry of self-reproach, he turned to muse on that intuition of the world's pain which had been troubling Catherine, shrinking from it even more than she had shrunk from it, in proportion as his nature was more imaginative than hers.
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