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Updated: May 15, 2025
The dark green leaves of the magnolia were to be seen here and there among trees of larger growth, and the shining, ever-green laurel forming a dense undergrowth, gave the woods a lively and spring-like appearance.
He stood quite still in the street that was already so sunny, so spring-like, as though rooted to the spot. He who had shrunk from caresses allowed her to stroke him, and did not mind if others saw it too. "I shall come to see you again, Frau Lämke. She can say what she likes. I will come to you."
Connolly, the fat Irishman, is a politician wads of money, but not much interest in the game. The other three " But now the president had made an end and was beckoning to Ford. The young engineer rose, feeling much as if a bucket of ice-water had been suddenly emptied down the back of his neck. But one of his saving qualities was the spring-like resilience which responds instantly to a shock.
Violet thought how she had been taught to look on this as her boy's inheritance, and therewith came the prayer that he might win his true inheritance, made without hands, ever spring-like and beyond the power of the flame!
It was a beautiful morning, spring-like and summer-like at once. If there had been nothing else to do or think of, such a morning was enough for life only to breathe its air and be conscious of its inspiring influence.
It was as though she had become aware of her youth for there was but little of spring-like glory in the rectangular railed space of grass and trees, framed visibly by the orderly roof-slopes of that town, comely without grace, and hospitable without sympathy.
She looked so spring-like, so much a part of the fresh, young landscape in its robes of early February, as she half reclined to reach out for a blossom larger and yellower than the rest a pose that she knew was good that the Sophomore president put an end to suspense. "I had expected to lead the cotillion with Miss Martin," he began, "but she has gone South, so I'm badly left.
While life's middle summer had set its hardening mark on the mother's face, her former spring-like specialities were transferred so dexterously by Time to the second figure, her child, that the absence of certain facts within her mother's knowledge from the girl's mind would have seemed for the moment, to one reflecting on those facts, to be a curious imperfection in Nature's powers of continuity.
Half-an-hour later he was sounding an impatient tatto upon his sister's door. She came herself to admit him, but the look upon her face checked the greeting on his lips. "What on earth's the matter?" he said instead. She was shivering as if with cold, though the risen sun had filled the world with spring-like warmth.
He smiled, almost foolishly. "I thought they it looked rather pretty and spring-like," he began, by way of explanation. His teeth ground together angrily; he sounded absurd, and he knew it. Furthermore, it was inexcusable of her to corner him in this fashion.
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