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I groaned in anguish at the pitiable spectacle. I would have soothed I would have reasoned; but in the intensity of her wild desire for life for life but for life solace and reason were alike the uttermost of folly. Yet not until the last instance, amid the most convulsive writhings of her fierce spirit, was shaken the external placidity of her demeanor.
But she did not allow her inward apprehensions to rob her of the advantage of venerable placidity conferred upon her outward person by her triple chin, the floating ampleness of her ancient form, and the impotent condition of her legs.
"A glass of cold water is what you want." Sophia Antonovna glanced up the grounds at the house and shook her head, then out of the gate at the brimful placidity of the lake. With a half-comical shrug of the shoulders, she gave the remedy up in the face of that abundance. "It is you, my dear soul, who are flinging yourself at something which does not exist. What is it? Self-reproach, or what?
They found there on the grand central divan a large lady whose vast smoothness, placidity, and plumpness set at defiance all their preconceptions of Mrs. Grosvenor Green, so that Mrs. March distinctly paused with her card in her hand before venturing even tentatively to address her. Then she was astonished at the low, calm voice in which Mrs.
With taut-strung nerves, the highlanders approached the sea, which shone in matutinal placidity. When the ripples wavered on the smooth sand and ran in caressing ripples towards their feet, they started and shrunk. The incomprehensible ocean was alive and much to be feared, for was it not so big that no one could see where it ended?
Joseph had been promoted to the command of a certain number of the porters, and his domestic duties were laid aside. Thus Marie was called upon to attend to Guy Oscard's daily wants. "I think I'll take coffee," he was saying to her in reply to a question. "Yes coffee, please, Marie." He was smoking one of his big wooden pipes, staring straight in front of him with a placidity natural to his bulk.
Her head was thrown back against the top of the chair, the ribbon which confined her ancient hat hung loose, and the late afternoon light covered her octogenarian face and gave it a kind of fairness, a double placidity.
The boatman, losing his placidity, turned a deep red. "Take care, young fellow," he said, in a voice of anger; "there's not a man in Tennessee who dares to call Ned Jackson a coward!" "I dare to call you a coward unless you take us over to Chattanooga!" answered the boy, sturdily. "You're afraid and that's the whole truth!"
But what was Trudi saying? "The gracious one cannot have her boots." "Why not?" asked Lady Hannah, with languid interest. Trudi struck the blow. "Because she has none." "No boots? Well, then, the walking-shoes." Trudi smiled all over her large face. This placidity should not long endure. "The gracious one has no shoes either. Boots and shoes all have been taken away.
It was no child who stood there with a face of sick distaste. The professor's mood of indulgent maturity melted into dismay before the half-seen horror in her eyes. But the moment of revelation passed as quickly as it had come. The girl's face settled again into its grave placidity. "I'll get the tea," she said. "The kettle will be boiling dry."
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