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"Of course it is, you stupid David," she said gleefully. She was very kind to the man who had been willing to do so much for her; but as the door closed on him she forgot him. She even ceased to hear the warning voice he had brought with him from the dead. She was re-reading the letter that began by calling her wife.
Last night, re-reading Saint-Simon with whom we seem to ascend a lofty tower, whence our gaze rests on hundreds of human destinies, astir in the valley below I understood what a beautiful destiny meant to the instinct of man.
Could the irony of fate go further! I dropped the letter half read, querying if it were my duty to let the inspector know of the flaw I had discovered in my own theory, before I proceeded with the attempt I had suggested when I believed in its complete soundness. I had not settled the question when I took the letter up again. Re-reading its opening sentence, I was caught by the word "something."
He had all the pettiness of a bad child; he knew that he was his mother's favorite, and he naturally went to her for sympathy when he was angry with his brother, as he had done from his infancy. Having so far vented his wrath, he closed his letter without re-reading it, and delivered it to be posted before the clock struck seven.
Is it a matter of much wonderment, then, if he is swayed by the new and intoxicating forms which pleasure takes in those far-distant climes where the eye of Mrs. Grundy never penetrates? A somewhat curious way in which to commence my narrative, say you? I think so too, on re-reading it; but with your permission, I will not dash my pen through it.
But it shed its glamour over our youth and there is affectionate dread in the thought of a more critical re-reading. In truth, Kingsley, viewed in all his literary work, stands out as an athlete of the intellect and the emotions, doing much and doing it remarkably well a power for righteousness in his day and generation, but for this very reason less a professional novelist of assured standing.
I was re-reading Swinburne's bitter but not ignoble poem, 'Before a Crucifix, in which he bids Christ, or the ecclesiastical image of Christ, stand out of the way of the onward march of a political idealism represented by United Italy or the French Republic.
A careful re-reading of all this evidence suggests that the various testimonies may indeed have been echoes of the first narrative. They seem to lack those characteristic differences which would stamp them as independent accounts.
She closed her fan, with which she had been more or less idly playing throughout their dialogue, and replaced it on the table. The Duchessa caught his glance. "Yes," she said; "your friend's novel. I told you I had been re-reading it." "Yes," said he. "And do you know I 'm inclined to agree with your own enthusiastic estimate of it?" she went on.
"Brigit." Re-reading this letter, which she was far too self-engrossed to consider selfish, Brigit addressed it. Then she looked over her clothes, packed them in three boxes, one of which she labelled, "To be called for," the other two of which were to go with her. It was long after one when she had finished her work and sat down to rest. She was not tired, nor did she feel any special excitement.
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