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To one who barely remembers the phrase the effect is marked enough, but to one who knows every phrase and its associations the double meaning is almost horrifying. It is idle to search out such points as this with the aid of a guide, for while you are waiting for them you lose the music in which they are set; the prevailing mood eludes you, and the points themselves fail to make their effect.
But as the years went on, instead of sinking into purely conventional ways, Hugh found a mood of dissatisfaction growing upon him. He found that after his holidays he came back with increasing reluctance to his work. The work itself, how unsatisfactory it became!
"Ellen's waiting with the dinner." The three men walked together up the bare stubblefield toward the house. "The best of the summer's over now," said Brun, looking about with a sigh. "The wheel has turned on one more cog!" "Death isn't the worst thing that can happen to one," answered Morten, who was still in a morbid mood.
She bathed him, kissed him, forgot all things but the fact that lying there before her was he who had loved her more than the mere lover would have loved; had martyred himself for her comfort, cared more for her self-respect than she had thought of caring. This mood continued till she heard quick, smart footsteps without; she knew whose footsteps they were.
`Number One, who had evidently enjoyed his meal, being in a genial mood, as indeed, to give him his due, he usually was, did not keep us long in suspense. "Ha, my lads," he said, on the sentry ushering us up to where he sat, "you've given in your names, I believe, to pass for ordinary seamen, eh?" The cat was out of the bag at once, and mightily we felt relieved at that.
He was rather sulky when he went away, and he had told her the exact amount he had paid for her ring. Having forced him to agree to the delay, she found her mood of exaltation returning. As always, it was when he was not with he that she saw him most clearly, and she saw his real need for her. She had a sense of peace, too, now that at last something was decided.
She was going to the Merriweather ball, and Becky is to be there." She saw him gather himself together. "It is rather a Cinderella story, isn't it?" he asked, with assumed lightness. "Yes," she said, "but I thought you'd like to know." "What if I knew already?" She laughed and let it go at that. "I'm lonesome, Georgie, talk to me," she said. But he was not in a mood to talk.
He raised his face, gave her a dark look, and made no answer. The sister felt as if an icy mantle had fallen over her, and said no more. At the sight of him, the glow of gratitude and curiosity died away in their hearts. Perhaps he was not so cold, not so taciturn, not so stern as he seemed to them, for in their highly wrought mood they were ready to pour out their feeling of friendship.
Pendennis, perhaps did not acknowledge to herself, what had been the real cause of the day's quarrel. Being in a very wicked mood, and bent upon mischief everywhere, the little wicked Muse of a Blanche had very soon begun her tricks. Her darling Laura had come to pass a long day; and as they were sitting in her own room together, had chosen to bring the conversation round to the subject of Mr.
"Then let us get a carriage and drive somewhere together, we two alone." Miriam shook her head. "Because it is Sunday?" asked Cecily, with a mischievous smile, leaning her head aside. "There is an understanding between us, Cecily. Don't break it." "But I told you my mood was wicked. I feel disposed to break any and every undertaking. I should like to fret and torment and offend you.
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