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In my miserable position ignorant whether I am free or not I have shrunk from formally acknowledging that I love her. 12th. I am becoming superstitious! In the Obituary of to-day's Times the death is recorded of that unhappy woman whom I was mad enough to marry. After hearing nothing of her for seven years I am free! Surely this is a good omen?
Thus on a frosty day with wind, the face of a person exposed to the wind is at first pale and shrunk; but on turning the face from the wind, it becomes soon of a glow with warmth and flushing. The glow of the skin in emerging from the cold-bath is owing to the same cause.
The lady was my Aunt Caroline, then in the fresh bloom of seventeen; the young man I had never seen before. Seeing me standing alone in the walk, my aunt called me; but as I shrunk away shy and blushing at sight of the stranger, she came forward and took hold of my hand. "This is our little Katy, Cousin Harry," said she, leading me towards him.
Such was the formidable rival with whom Ichabod Crane had to contend, and, considering all things, a stouter man than he would have shrunk from the competition, and a wiser man would have despaired.
Ingelow produced a little white paper from his vest pocket. "You see this powder?" holding it up. "Drop it into the tea-pot this evening, and don't drink any of the tea." The woman shrunk a little. "I'm almost afraid, Mr. Ingelow. I don't like drugging. They're old and feeble; I daren't do it." "You must do it," Hugh Ingelow said, sternly. "I tell you there is no danger.
Another, who had vowed to give his life for the same cause, having shrunk from the sacrifice, he delivered, adorned as a victim, with garlands and fillets, to boys, who were to drive him through the streets, calling on him to fulfil his vow, until he was thrown headlong from the ramparts.
He thought himself ridiculous in a garb, under which Latimer must have walked erect; and in which Hooker, in his young days, possibly flaunted in a vein of no discommendable vanity. In the depth of college shades, or in his lonely chamber, the poor student shrunk from observation. He found shelter among books, which insult not; and studies, that ask no questions of a youth's finances.
What Thorpe felt at first was that his two daughters had shrunk from him with swift, terrible aversion: they vanished, along with every phase of the bright vision, under a pall of unearthly blackness. He stood in the centre of a chill solitude, staring stupidly at the coarse, soft paper. The premonition, then, had justified itself! Something had told him that the telegram was an evil thing.
These are her children, my grandchildren, come to get out of the way." And she pointed to two or three little girls, with frightened faces, and eyes wet with tears. Stuart seemed deeply affected. Under that stout heart, which never shrunk, was a wealth of sweetness and kindness. "Well, they are not coming back, my good woman," he said, in a voice of deep feeling.
Brudenell was excessively displeased at a course of conduct in her daughter-in-law that would naturally give rise to a great deal of conjecture. She expostulated with Lady Hurstmonceux; but to no good purpose: for Berenice shrunk from company, replying to all arguments that could be urged upon her: "I cannot I cannot see visitors, mamma! It is quite quite impossible." And then Mrs.
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