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By degrees however the good doctor had become so absorbed in the sounds that rushed, now wailing, now jubilant, now tender as a twilight wind, now imperious as the voice of the war-tempest, from the fingers of the raptured boy, that the reading of the first vesper-psalm had commenced while he was yet watching the slow rising index, in the expectation that the organist was about to resume.
In fact, she had been so fashioned and finished by Nature that, had she been set on a revolving pedestal in a show-window, the bystanders would have exclaimed, as each new charm came into view: "Look at her waist!" "See her shoulders!" "And her neck and chin!" "And her hair!" While the children, gazing with raptured admiration, would have shrieked, in unison, "I choose her for mine."
But the thirty-thousand pounds, you know " "Very true: But who would have ever dreamed of your turning fortune-hunter?" "No body had more need on't than I." "Not handsome, but rich: and so, I suppose you will soon learn to sing the old ballad "Her golden charms so sweetly shine, While rising to my raptured view; That I would rather call them mine, Than any girl I ever knew!"
Oh, how beautiful it is to see these ranks of sunny little faces assembled here to learn the way of life; to learn to be good; to learn to be useful; to learn to be pious; to learn to be great and glorious men and women; to learn to be props and pillars of the State and shining lights in the councils and the households of the nation; to be bearers of the banner and soldiers of the cross in the rude campaigns of life, and raptured souls in the happy fields of Paradise hereafter.
The days are past when fairy godmothers flash suddenly before our raptured eyes, clad in spangled robes, with real, true wings growing out of their shoulders, but the race is not dead; they appear sometimes as stout little women, in satin gowns and be-feathered bonnets, and with the most prosaic of red, beaming faces.
Her raptured vision wandered from tray to tray, but it was a comparatively trifling article that finally claimed her attention a tiny finger-ring set with small rubies and brilliants. "Oh, do look at this!" she said to her companion. "Did you ever see such a love of a ring? what a perfect engagement-ring it would make!"
And pauses not to gaze upon each scene That was familiar to thy raptured view, Those walks beloved by thee while I pursue, Musing upon the years that intervene Why this line intervenes or what it means we do not see it seems inserted just to make up the number Methinks, as eve descends, a hymn of praise To thee, their bard, the sister Seasons raise!
"I believe you will be happy and that your love for each other will always be true and faithful and tender. Willard, I give you my dear child in perfect trust and confidence." With her yellowed love letter clasped to her heart, and a raptured shining in her eyes, Miss Sally went out of the room. My Lady Jane The boat got into Broughton half an hour after the train had gone.
Yes! it was Martha, as I knew her in those raptured days of love on the banks of the Hudson before disease and weakness and age had stolen the bloom from her cheeks, the light from her eyes, and the fair presentiment of charm and perfection from her body. She did not see me perhaps clearly. Certainly she did not recognize me.
"Now I perceived that he was not looking at the wall; for, when I regarded him alone, it seemed exactly that he gazed at something within two yards' distance. And, whatever it was, it communicated, apparently, both pleasure and pain in exquisite extremes: at least the anguished, yet raptured, expression of his countenance suggested that idea.
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