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Updated: May 22, 2025
The sun was burnishing her hair into an aura, and the clear light shone searchingly on the fresh bloom of her cheek, the violet of her eyes and the crimson of her lips revealing no flaw. She was all lovely and young, and yet Brent thought, she was alarmingly, almost paradoxically clever.
He was the incandescent medium, and yet, paradoxically, gained in identity and individuality and was inseparable from the thing itself. She could not see him. A pillar hid the chancel from her view. The service, to which she had objected as archaic, became subordinate, spiritualized, dominated by the personality.
"Which proves," said Ernest, "that she is paradoxically ugly." "I pity them, if they are seeking four husbands," said George; "and if they are married I pity their four husbands."
At last she found something it didn't matter much what to say, and the conversation between them, on the surface of it, was just what it had been for the first ten minutes after he had come in. But, paradoxically, this superficial commonplaceness only heightened the tensity of the thing that underlay it.
From the raised platform, in place of the shrewd, matter-of-fact New England politician alive to the vote getting powers of Fourth of July patriotism, in place of the vehement but fun-loving son of Erin, men with wild, dark faces, with burning black eyes and unkempt hair, unshaven, flannel skirted made more alien, paradoxically, by their conventional, ready-made American clothes gave tongue to the inarticulate aspirations of the peasant drudge of Europe.
The building, which they had never even entered until yesterday, had served as a sorting and packing house for the crop, though the old part of it paradoxically the upper part appeared to have been built as a dwelling by some pioneer settler. A second story had been added underneath by digging out the bank. It stood well back from the road, a grass grown lane with a turning circle leading to it.
It is quite impossible unless one is a poetical genius to reproduce on paper that gone and sickly sensation which is, paradoxically, so exquisite.
Cold and bitter and bleak howled the November blast, and ruthlessly drove the sleet against the shivering panes, exposed without, though shielded within by Venetian folding shutters, on that gray morning, when a passing whisper from most unlovely and altogether unfaithful lips nerved me paradoxically to sudden resolution.
He grew up hating the English, and yet, paradoxically, developing a nature in which were certain characteristics, certain aptitudes, certain affections shared by the English. He was no lethargic Eastern, unpractical, though deviously subtle, taking no thought for the morrow, uselessly imaginative, submissive, ready to cringe genuinely to authority, then turn and kick the man below him.
Gratton and the men with him would, of course, have ample supplies. She yearned feverishly to be rid of King and his intolerable domineering. She estimated swiftly that, paradoxically, her only power over him was that of powerlessness; while she lay here hers was, in a way, the advantage. On her feet, following him, he would be again to her the brute he had been coming in.
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