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Speaking of the summer, he says: "The wide, fertile bottom lands of the Wabash, in many places presented one continuous orchard of wild plum and crab-apple bushes, over-spread with arbors of the different varieties of the woods grape, wild hops and honeysuckle, fantastically wreathed together.
As the frenzy of cheering died away, Quimbleton's face took on the glow of simple benignance that Bleak had first observed at the time of the julep incident in the Balloon office. The flush of a warm, impulsive idealism over-spread his genial features. It was the face of one who deeply loved his fellow-men. "My friends," he said, "now I am able to say, in all sincerity, Here's How.
What a specimen! A boy and girl match, I suppose. What else could have induced that poor wretch to cut his throat in such fashion? He, of all men. And Eugénie de Netteville stood thinking not, apparently, of the puritanical wife; the dangerous softness which over-spread the face could have had no connection with Catherine. Madame de Netteville's instinct was just.
He shot the words at her as from a rapid-fire gun, watching keenly from narrowed and scornful eyes the effect upon her. Her very lips grew white. "Impossible!" she gasped. "Impossible!" Her surprise was as genuine as the slow, sickly pallor which had over-spread her face. He could not doubt her. Supremely clever woman as she was, she was incapable of this kind of acting.
The boy's last crumb had vanished long ago, and he thought he might venture across to the other table. "May I speak with you a moment, sir?" he asked softly, taking the letter from his pocket. "Certainly." The man bowed with his accustomed courtesy. "Polly Dudley gave me this for you." At mention of the name a pleasant light over-spread the grave face. The lad watched him as he read.
But when he is shown the enormous sub-structures lying under water, and the masses of solid masonry wherewith the surrounding hills are over-spread, incredulity gives place to amazement.
So beautiful, so gloriously beautiful was that countenance thus breathing prayer, so little seemed that soul of earth, that tears started to the eyes of Agnes, and the paleness of strong emotion over-spread the cheek, aye, and the quivering lip, which the war and death-speaking trumpet had had no power to disturb.
And yet I speak the language of your childhood, the language of the man for whom there is no hope but in your generosity." He shook his head. She gazed at him anxiously for a moment. "In your memories then," she said and was surprised by the expression of profound sadness that over-spread his attentive face. "Do you know what I remember?" he said. "Do you want to know?"
The only thing which remains without bounds or constituted limitation, whose privilege it is to over-spread and to overlie all established facts, in such boundless and unhindered freedom as the sun and the air, is the irradiating force of theoretical research. Scientific theory must be free even to the length of license.
"Stop whining, hound!" roared Demetrius; "haven't I said you are free? Free, but on one condition!" "Anything, anything, my lord," professed the freedman, "money, service " "On this condition," and a broad, wicked smile over-spread the face of the pirate, "that you quit this ship instantly!" "Gladly, gladly, merciful sir!" commenced Phaon again; "where is the boat?"
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