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'How beautiful! said your sister, as she raised her eyes to the glorious heavens, sparkling with countless stars, whose brilliancy was showered on the now sleeping earth 'Yes, beautiful! repeated Milton; and his voice, so musical, yet melancholy, thrilled to my inmost soul: 'Beautiful! he said again, as if the word was pleasant in his ears; 'and yet the time is coming fast when I shall behold that beauty no more when I shall be more humbled than the poor insects upon which I may now heedlessly tread they creep, but see; I shall be a thing of darkness in the midst of light irrevocably dark! total eclipse! without the hope of day!
"I mean, there is no prison vault, nor any prison any more; the walls that seemed to shut me in are dissolved, and I am free again." "And you can see through?" Basil repeated. "Yes. Where my eyes were met by something harder than fate, it is all broken up, and light, and clear, and I can see through."
You're an obstruction, you are, muster; and if so be as you lay the lesson to heart, the bit o' teachin' on my part will be wuth while. 'I'll pay you out. See if I don't! repeated Alick, sidling hurriedly off, with a parting shot in the shape of the coward's favourite threat. 'Oh, come! Geoff was at his heels, 'the old chap is very game.
'It's very hard, said my mother, 'that in my own house 'My own house? repeated Mr. Murdstone. 'Clara! 'OUR own house, I mean, faltered my mother, evidently frightened 'I hope you must know what I mean, Edward it's very hard that in YOUR own house I may not have a word to say about domestic matters. I am sure I managed very well before we were married.
He read the letter through, and then, turning to Mr Bickers, said, "This letter is not intended for reading aloud, Mr Bickers." "Yes it is. I insist on your reading it, Mr Chairman." "If you insist, I will do it; but I think you would be wiser to put it in your pocket." "Read it, Mr Chairman," repeated Mr Bickers excitedly. Mr Roe accordingly read, in a voice which betrayed some emotion:
Paul's on the occasion of the battle of Oudenarde, Anne found that she had not put on her diamonds, and blamed the Duchess for the omission, it belonging to her duty as Mistress of the Robes. The quondam favourite made her Majesty a haughty reply; and Anne, hurt at it, repeated her reproaches with greater warmth. The Duchess, furious, imposed silence upon her royal mistress.
When the story was repeated to Raphael, his sole protest is said to have been to the effect that he was glad that Michael Angelo esteemed him so highly as to enter the lists with him.
"Uncle," said Tommy, "I am going to Australia." Bluenose, who had just lighted his pipe, looked at the boy through the smoke, smiled, and said, "No, Tommy, you ain't." "Uncle," repeated Tommy, "I am. I once heard Bax say he'd rather go there than anywhere else, if he was to go abroad; so I'm certain he has gone there, and I'm going to seek for him."
Oh, in Xenophon, of course. In The Retreat of the Ten Thousand. The Master gulped it aloud, in a dead voice: "Most terrible of all is the desert for it is full-of a great want." After a while he knew that he was trying to laugh. "A great want!" he repeated. "A great " Presently it was night again. The Master's mind cleared. Yes, there was the woman, lying in the sand near him.
The thought that I might have seen her, and had not seen her, and should never see her that bitter thought stung me with all the force of overwhelming reproach. 'She is dead! I repeated, staring stupidly at the hall-porter. I slowly made my way back to the street, and walked on without knowing myself where I was going. All the past swam up and rose at once before me.
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