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Vere herself did not seem to listen very attentively, but I think the sweet, rather monotonous voice had a soothing effect on her nerves; she was relieved to be spared talking, and also intent on studying this strange specimen of human nature. "Oh, admirable but dullest of Rachels, she absolutely delights in doing what she dislikes!
As it is, it must be confessed that the arrival of Miss Prissy in a family was much like the setting up of a domestic show-case, through which you could look into all the families in the neighborhood, and see the never-ending drama of life, births, marriages, deaths, joy of new-made mothers, whose babes weighed just eight pounds and three-quarters, and had hair that would part with a comb, and tears of Rachels who wept for their children, and would not be comforted because they were not.
"I never thought I could be glad to see you. But I am." Hazlitt felt suddenly weak. Her face before him was something in a dream. It was turned away and he could watch her breathing. Bewilderedly he remembered a thousand Rachels, different from this one, who was glad he had come. But the beauty of her burned away uncomfortable memories. She was the Rachel of his loneliness.
She was quite unprepared for any such observance on the part of her small adherents, for her first study of the roll-book had shown her that its numerous Jacobs, Isidores, and Rachels belonged to a class to which Christmas Day was much as other days. And so she went serenely on her way, all unconscious of the swift and strict relation between her manner and her chances.
I think of the shining eyes of my little Lucys and Bridgets and Rachels could I turn them loose in a field of golden buttercups and daisies, with sweet wild strawberries hidden at their roots; of the merry glee of my dear boisterous little prophets and patriots, if I could set them catching tadpoles in a clear wayside pool, or hunting hens' nests in the alder bushes behind the barn, or pulling yellow cow lilies in the pond, or wading for cat-o'-nine-tails, with their ragged little trousers tucked above their knees.
But, sir, where they have it is in 'knowing' the impressibility of certain ambitious actresses, whose acquaintance they cultivate, and for a given sum set them up for Siddonses and Rachels, with the same respect for modesty they evince in puffing Peteler's soda water. "And now, sir, we have come to the last, but depend upon it, he is not the least of them all I mean the critic at large." Here Mr.
Husbands indubitably do die, young wives indubitably are transformed into widows daily event, indeed!... She seemed to perceive the deep, hidden meaning of life. There were three Rachels in her one who pitied Louis, one who pitied herself, and one who looked on and impartially comprehended. The last was scarcely unhappy only fervently absorbed in the prodigious wonder of the hour.
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