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The hotel people paid her a tempered devotion, but she marred the effect by rushing out and sitting on a balcony to wait for the delaying royalties. There began to be more promises of their early appearance; a footman got down and placed himself at the carriage door; the coachman stiffened himself on his box; then he relaxed; the footman drooped, and even wandered aside.
Some thought the head too big, some too small; some that the body was disproportionately little; others, on the contrary, that it was so much too large that it had the appearance of being dropsical; others maintained that the legs were too weak for the support of the whole, and that they should be rendered more important and prominent members of the figure; while, on the contrary, there were yet others who cried out that really these members were already so extravagantly huge, so coarse, and so ungenteel, that they quite marred the general effect of a beautiful piece of sculpture.
But the fire reached her fingers and she flung the cloth at him, to have him trample it under foot as he sprang toward her again. "Would you be burned be marred?" he shouted at her. "You are mad, you " Behind him the door opened. Behind him a tall figure appeared through the thickening smoke. She saw a face she knew; a voice she knew cried out her name: "Arlee!"
Age after age has rolled by change after change has agitated the history of Time, as forms of beauty have been moulded and marred as songs of joy have been sung, and requiems of sadness chanted in the great highways and quiet bypaths of life the living of bygone ages are slumbering quietly in the dust, and the living of the present are hurrying to the same 'pale realms of shade. The nations of antiquity have passed off the stage with all their grandeur and littleness, and the nations of more modern times are surging and dashing to and fro, like ships in the wild chaos of ocean's storms.
This man died, it is said, in final impenitence, as do, unfortunately, many noble geniuses, whom God may forgive. The life of this man, great as he was, was marred by many meannesses, to use the expression employed by his enemies, who were anxious to diminish his glory, but which it would be more proper to call apparent contradictions.
The rest of the summer and early fall passed delightfully to our sojourners by the sea; though the happiness of the captain and Violet was somewhat marred by the knowledge that soon they must part for a season of greater or less duration, he to be exposed to all the dangers of the treacherous deep.
Well-to-do "pressers" and machinists, factory-girls of different sorts, hundreds of sallow women, representing the home-workers of Mile End, Bow, and Stepney poor souls bowed by toil and maternity, whose marred fingers labour day and night to clothe the Colonies and the army; their husbands and brothers, too, English slop-tailors for the most part, of the humbler sort the short side-street was packed with them.
Yes, convalescence was delicious, with Maud reading to him, bringing his food, and singing for him; all that marred his peace was the stream of people who came to inquire how he was getting along. The sympathy was largely genuine, as Hartley could attest, but it bored the invalid. He had rather be left in quiet with Walter Scott and Maud.
Heliobas seated himself opposite and looked at him earnestly, he studied with sympathetic attention the lines of dejection and fatigue which marred the attractiveness of features otherwise frank, poetic, and noble. He had seen many such men.
You may leave the money of the sect, but you have stolen things that can never be replaced. Faith hopes ideals " Her voice failed her. "Mistaken faith mistaken ideals " He caught her wrists, drawing her hands downward. But again she freed herself and confronted him with blazing eyes and a face marred by tears and emotion. "Nothing is mistaken that lifts one up that helps one to live.
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