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It was easy to see that whatever pleasure the turn in my affairs may have given Walkirk, he was disappointed at losing his trip to Europe; but I thought it well not to reopen his wounds by any allusion to this fact, and contented myself by saying the most earnest and cordial things about what he had done and suffered for me that day, and inwardly determining that I would make full amends to him for his lost journey.
William Wetherell perceived that the conversation, for the moment at least, was safely away from politics, and in that dubious state where it was difficult to reopen. This was perhaps what Jethro wanted. Even Jake Wheeler was tongue-tied, and Jethro appeared to be lost in reflection. At this instant a diversion occurred a trifling diversion, so it seemed at the time.
Prices did not rise; failures continued; the long-silent mills did not reopen; gold continued to leave the country, imports fell off, and, when the year ended, the receipts of the government were $34,000,000 behind the expenditures. With this condition of the Treasury facing it, Congress met in December, 1893.
While his eyes were closed he had the mastery of all pictures of light and colour and warmth, but an irresistible fascination compelled him every few minutes to reopen them, and in the sad space around he could not create any happiness.
It seemed hardly possible that human flesh could have endured such prolonged torture. Many times it was thought he was dead; the flies clustered on his eyelids, but suddenly he would reopen his bloodshot eyes. On the morning of the fourth day, he sang, in a voice clearer and purer than that of a child "Tell us, Mary, what thou hast seen where thou hast been?" Then he smiled and said
Asquith, referring to the "conversations" between leaders which had taken place during the winter, said that since no definite agreement had been reached the Government had decided to reopen the matter in the House.
"What business had you that led you to call at that hour upon such a notorious person?" Hugh remained silent. He saw that to tell Benton the truth would be to reopen the whole question of the will and of Louise. So he merely shrugged his shoulders. "Won't you tell me what really happened at the Villa Amette, Hugh?" asked the elder man persuasively.
"If any such words are necessary for your comfort, it would hardly become me to forbid them. Were I to speak so harshly you would accuse me afterwards in your own heart. It must be for you to judge whether it is well to reopen a wound that is nearly healed." "But with me it is not nearly healed. The wound is open always."
The gates of Paradise reopen; but before he enters he examines his ground. Gwynplaine, staggering under the weight of his emotion, looked around him, while the wolf went and lay down silently by his chain. The step of the little van was down the door ajar there was no one inside.
For a second more she hesitated, then simply wrote her name. Folding up the hurried scrawl, she was conscious of a strong sense of dissatisfaction, but she would not reopen it. There was nothing more to be said. She went out with it to Bill Merston, and met his chaff with careless laughter. "You haven't told him to come and fetch you away, I hope?" Matilda said, as he rode away.
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