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Monasteries were liberally decorated with statues, carvings and pictures. They often comprised several courts and temples.
"It is Aunt calling me," she said, "I must go. Good-bye." "Is it good-bye, then?" "It must be. But I shall often think of you." He had the unforgettable sensation of two soft burning lips touching the hand which hung at his side, and turned swiftly but too late. She was speeding along the rocky pathway which led to the house. "Wait, Sisily!" he cried. A seabird's mournful cry was the only answer.
Jenny did not look in quite so often upon her father for ten minutes after breakfast, for instance, or before lunch and when he looked in on her he seemed to find her generally with rather a preoccupied air, often sitting before the wide-arched fireplace, with her hands behind her head, looking at the red logs.
A rush was made at his basket, which was emptied on the instant; and I am sorry to confess that the black angel Saat was one of the first to seize three or four of the largest yams, which he most unceremoniously put in a pot and deliberately cooked as though he had been the botanical discoverer. How often the original discoverer suffers, while others benefit from his labours!
Handsome clerks of the Vimeux style have their salaries on which to live, and their good looks by which to make their fortune. Devoted to masked balls during the carnival, they seek their luck there, though it often escapes them.
This paper I took up, and, finding it to be a letter, I made no scruple to open and read it; and indeed I read it so often that I can repeat it to you almost word for word. This then was the letter: 'To Mr Brian Fitzpatrick.
The spirit of the old knights of chivalry that had descended upon him still held him in a spell that he did not wish to break. Often she mocked at him and laughed at him, and then he liked her all the better. No placid, submissive woman, shrinking before the dangers, would have pleased him.
The inelasticity of it hampered sociability and there grew on one, too, a sense of unfitness. His clothes were an anachronism! They were the only thing which did not belong! There is an old-fashioned adjective which describes better than any other this preoccupation with things, which so often prevents a woman's coming to an understanding of the heart of her Business. It is old maidish.
He had often told himself that in this matter of marrying a wife he would please himself altogether, that he would allow himself to be tied down by no consideration of family pride, that he would consult nothing but his own heart and feelings. As for rank, he could give that to his wife. As for money, he had plenty of that also.
Poverty makes them acquainted with both physical and moral dirt, and the effect of one night in a shelter or lodging-house is often sufficient to destroy self-respect and personal cleanliness for life.
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