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Then Withers took Miss Dearsley's hand in his brown, ragged, cracked paw, and kissed it which is offence number three against the proprieties. But then you know the soldiers used to kiss Florence Nightingale's shadow! Didn't they?
"And your will shall decide your destiny," he said. "I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share in all my possessions." A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel walk and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut; it wandered away away to an infinite distance it died. The nightingale's song was then the only voice of the hour; in listening to it again, I wept. Mr.
In the spring the violets' scented breath recalled her whenever I inhaled their fragrance; while, the nightingale's amorous trills we had nightingales to visit us in our suburb, closely situated as it was to London appeared to me to embody the impassioned words that Tennyson puts in the mouth of his love-wooing sea maiden
He will, like the nightingale, sing with unceasing modulations, display all his talent, untiringly repeat his sweetest notes, until he has what he wants, when his song, like the nightingale's, immediately ceases, never again to be heard." "Take that down," murmured Irais aside to Minora unnecessary advice, for her pencil was scribbling as fast as it could.
All England is one great menagerie, and, all at once, the jackal, who admires the gilded cage of the royal beast, must protest against the vulgarity of the talking-bird's and the nightingale's being willing to become a part of the exhibition!
Her light gossamery white dress was even more cloudy than usual; a softer, richer pink mantled her rounded cheeks; her big blue eyes were lustrous, and out of her parted lips poured a melody as sweet as a nightingale's. Arnold was standing near her he also was singing and as Frances approached he did not see her, for his glance, full of admiration, was fixed upon Miss Danvers.
"And they say his eye is brighter than the sun, and that he can see more with his one eye than all the other birds put together; and that his feathers are blacker and whiter and more beautiful than anything else in the world, and his voice sweeter than the nightingale's. Don't you ever listen to the crow, Bevis; he is a black scoundrel.
Thou sawest, in these woods by Loire side, the fair shapes of old religion, Fauns, Nymphs, and Satyrs, and heard'st in the nightingale's music the plaint of Philomel.
'It would require a new Regulation of the Service, she was told, 'to bone the meat. As for the washing arrangements, they were revolutionised. Up to the time of Miss Nightingale's arrival, the number of shirts the authorities had succeeded in washing was seven. The hospital bedding, she found, was 'washed' in cold water.
With the nightingale's song in their ears, two ordinary young persons with no preconceived theories on the subject of love, have been known, she was well aware, to become lovers of the most aggressive type. Yes, she had great hopes of the nightingale. So, apparently, had Herbert Courtland.
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