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"I want to have a hand on the oar because I think you have a sort of financial genius and I'd like to share a thing which must come that close to your inner life," she explained, and under the pleasurable spell of her appreciation Tollman found himself expanding with responsive pride. To certain forms of flattery he was as susceptible as a schoolgirl.
A vague procession of feelings, half sad, half pleasurable, floated past his closing eyes. ... Perhaps he slept a moment in the sunshine upon that bed of moss and pine needles. ... Such curious thoughts flowed up and out and round about, dancing like the brimstone butterflies out of reach before he could seize them, calling with voices like the cuckoos, themselves all the time just out of sight.
Among them the one whose arrival was looked forward to with the most pleasurable anticipations, and whose possible absence although he almost never was absent was feared with the liveliest emotions of anxiety, was 'Uncle Abe, as he was lovingly called by us all. Sometimes he might happen to be a day or two late.
A toy delights us; a little trinket elicits from us warm gratitude; a breath of balmy air is drunken with keen and pleasurable delight; a "fine" day is celebrated with exultation! But what a mockery is life! We writhe in pain and bear the brunt of an arrogant tyranny from whatever force that created and controls us.
"The actual boundaries are a little uncertain," said Gorman, "but I think we may say a hundred miles by about thirty." "Inhabitants? Is it considerably settled?" "I should guess the population at about 10,000." Gorman glanced at his daughter. Miss Daisy's eyes gleamed with pleasurable excitement.
With a sigh of anguish Eudoxia reflected what she herself, forced by cruel fate and lacking freedom and pleasurable ease, had become, from an ardent and generous young creature; and she, the narrow-hearted teacher, could make allowances for the strange, adventurous yearning of a child, where a larger souled woman might have derided, and blamed and repressed it.
Perhaps because in that direction lay the least known areas of Barsoom, and, ergo, Romance, Mystery, and Adventure. In that direction also lay far Gathol; but to that fact she gave no conscious thought. She did, however, think occasionally of the jed of that distant kingdom, but the reaction to these thoughts was scarcely pleasurable.
In an intense and pleasurable abstraction he finished the cookies and the milk. Then he yelled: "Hey! Merry Merry Etty!" "Whadda ye want?" sang the girl from the window, her face still rosy with confusion. "Come out here and git these things." The girl shook her head, with a laugh. "Come out an' git 'm, 'r by jingo I'll throw 'em at ye! Come on, now!"
I think those day visions were not dark: there was a pleasurable illumination in your eye occasionally, a soft excitement in your aspect, which told of no bitter, bilious, hypochondriac brooding: your look revealed rather the sweet musings of youth when its spirit follows on willing wings the flight of Hope up and on to an ideal heaven. The voice of Mrs.
As a final test by which to judge any plan of culture, should come the question, Does it create a pleasurable excitement in the pupils? When in doubt whether a particular mode or arrangement is or is not more in harmony with the foregoing principles than some other, we may safely abide by this criterion.
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