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But his brain was working as clearly as if passion had never clouded it, and although he could see no hope for the future he was determined to gain time and sacrifice anything rather than lose what little he might still have of her. He said finally, in a matter- of-fact voice: "I want you to use your will and imagination and forget that we ever entered that church." "Forget!
As he joined me, the light, or what we chose to call a light, appeared again in the window toward which my attention had been directed. "Some one's in the Moore house!" I declared, in as matter of-fact tones as I could command. Hibbard is a big fellow, the biggest fellow on the force, and so far as my own experience with him had gone, as stolid and imperturbable as the best of us.
Such may be deservedly entitled the creative words in the world of imagination. The second division respects an apparent minute adherence to matter- of-fact in character and Incidents; a biographical attention to probability, and an anxiety of explanation and retrospect.
Worse than that, they beget such high-strung and supersensitive ideas of life that plain industry and plodding perseverance are despised, and matter- of-fact poverty, or every-day, commonplace distress, meets with no sympathy, if indeed noticed at all, by one who has wept over the impossibly accumulated sufferings of some gaudy hero or heroine."
Buggins!" said Farmer Thorpe, as he sent his tankard to be refilled, "Lord! We won't know you!" Again the laugh went round, and Mrs. Buggins precipitately retired to her 'inner parlour' there to recover from the shock occasioned to her religious feelings by the irreverent remarks of her too matter- of-fact customer.
It was the latest issue of the magazine, and but a day or two old. "Carolyn in print, at last!" she exclaimed. "Why, isn't this splendid!" Then she returned to the text of the two sonnets and read the first of them part of it aloud. "Well," she gasped; "this is ardent, this is outspoken!" "That's the fashion among woman poets today," returned Cope, in a matter- of-fact tone.
After a little shifting about, the three artificial monsters gave their telephone wires another scrutiny; then, keeping always within ten feet of each other, so as not to throw any strain on the connections, they strode in a matter- of-fact way toward the nearest doorway.
As for the poor weary wife, she thought of her crockery, and remarking in a matter of-fact way, "What shall we have for supper now?" went to bed; whither her husband, pleased with the frolic of spoiling his meal and breaking the dishes, seems to have followed her in a more complacent mood than common. José Antonilez, a Spanish painter, studied under Francisco Rizi at Madrid.
Mr. George Henshaw let himself in at the front door, and stood for some time wiping his boots on the mat. The little house was ominously still, and a faint feeling, only partially due to the lapse of time since breakfast, manifested itself behind his waistcoat. He coughed a matter- of-fact cough and, with an attempt to hum a tune, hung his hat on the peg and entered the kitchen. Mrs.
'Hush! Harold said quietly. Then he said to Pearl, in a cheerful matter- of-fact way which carried conviction to the child's mind: 'Now, darling, it is time for all good little girls to be asleep, especially when they have had an an interesting day. You wait here till I put my pyjamas on, and then I'll come back for you. And mother and father shall come and see you nicely tucked in!
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