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At the bottom of the fall there is but little distinction of form visible. It is mostly a hissing, clashing, seething, upwhirling mass of scud and spray, through which the light sifts in gray and purple tones while at times when the sun strikes at the required angle, the whole wild and apparently lawless, stormy, striving mass is changed to brilliant rainbow hues, manifesting finest harmony.
She had expected tears and protests, stormy and passionate remonstrances not this quiet submission so unlike Edith. Perhaps no one understood the girl less than her own mother. It might have helped Mrs.
"Is this cold argument, this weighing of issues, consistent with the stormy passion you professed so lately?" "It is," I answered stoutly. "It is because I love you more than I love myself that I would have you reflect ere you adventure your life upon such a broken raft as mine. You are Paola Sforza di Santafior, and I " "Enough of that," she interrupted me, rising.
Duras and other male friends of the deceased: for the females of the family were not permitted, by the custom of the age and the religion, to be present on occasions of this kind. It was eleven o'clock at night: and the weather without was stormy and tempestuous.
But, instead, she only murmured: "But you HAVE reached me!" swayed towards him, and put her lips to his. He gave way then. From that too stormy kiss of his she drew back for a second, then, as if afraid of her own recoil, snuggled close again. But the instinctive shrinking of innocence had been enough for Lennan he dropped his arms and said: "You must go, child."
Though pounded and battered by the foaming waves, the simpleton at length managed to reach the beach, and took refuge in a crevice of the cliff during the stormy night. When the dawn broke, all sign of the ship had disappeared. Looking about, Bobo found himself on a lovely island whose heart was a high mountain mass hidden in the fog still sweeping in from the sea.
Costake Theriade and Sir Wilfrid Athelstone resumed their stormy efforts to talk each other down, but now even Cosmo was seldom a listener, except when he had to interfere to keep the peace.
I guess the whole show would breathe easier if I should fall off the train some dark night, when it was stormy, and we were crossing a high bridge over a stream that was out of its banks on account of a freshet. It was all on account of our taking an afternoon off on a Sunday at Richmond.
I entreated her to consider of what fickleness she would be thought capable, and what interpretation might be placed upon such inconsiderateness if she should prefer Cardinal Mazarin to Madame de Chevreuse. Our conversation was long and stormy, and I saw clearly that I had exasperated her."
His heart beat with new hope; only the blackness of the stormy sea was before him as he strove frantically on. Presently when he felt the current slacken, for he had been swimming across it and could feel its power, he turned and looked back. As he did so he murmured aloud: 'A dream! A vision! She came to warn me! For as he looked all had disappeared.
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