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"Why should I bid you tantalize yourself with hopes so likely to prove futile, when nobler thoughts should engross you? Look, Mr. Woodburn," she said, pointing, with charming enthusiasm, towards the distant summits of Manchester, then beginning to be dimly visible in the rays of the rising moon, "cast your eyes northward! Beneath yon blue mountains is gathered the council of your people.
Private opinions ain't going to bring on trouble; it's only when they ain't private. Now granting that man is what we know he is it's plain common sense to get as much out of him as you can. Make the place you live in the best thing he's got; and just so long as you can, keep yourself a little bit out of his reach tantalize him.
She had said to Arnold that she was willing to wait, that she would rather wait, but she soon began to feel differently. Arnold infused into her nature some of his own dreamy, enervated spirit, and sometimes he would describe to her an imaginary home so exactly to her taste that she would sigh deeply; and one day she remonstrated, "Don't tantalize me with any more such exquisite mirages.
"Those dreadful cannibals are only just showing us the fruit to tantalize us, and if we go after it we shall be murdered and eaten up the way I've told you about." "But, Peppo, I think the thirst is just as bad as being killed," complained Willy, "I'd just as soon be killed as die of thirst." "That's just what my people were saying today," answered Peppo.
I pushed to right and left. I knocked against trees. The sounds were here, then there. I could not reach them. They taunted me as lost spirits tantalize a soul in purgatory. Whichever way I turned they were just out of my grasp. I clenched my hands and swore that I would not be beaten. But my pitiful little oath was all bluster and impotent defiance.
"No one will see it," whimpered Pierre; and indeed Garratt Skinner would never have waved that signal had he not thought the same. "Perhaps one never knows," he said. "We must take all precautions, for the day looks bad." The sunlight, indeed, only stayed upon the mountain-side long enough to tantalize them with vain hopes of warmth.
Back in your stuffy old law office, say?" The lurch of the staggering yacht threw her forward so that the lithe, supple body leaned against me and the breath of the dimpling lips was in my nostrils. Just an instant she lay there, with that smile of warm eyes and rose-leaf mouth to tantalize me, before she recovered and drew back.
But despite her disclaiming, Kate did the guiding and her object was to get a good way from town. Her companion's frequently repeated effort was to slow down for a talk; hers was to tantalize him by speeding away from one. But she couldn't speed all of the time, and he eyed either her riding, or her habit, pretty closely for a good while without comment.
'Ah, my lord! exclaimed Jawleyford, throwing out his hand and shrugging his shoulders as if in despair, 'you tantalize me you do indeed. You should have come, or said nothing about it. You distress me you do indeed.
From the first one or two he reverted to sanity and to a fleeting sense of his position, and then the images trooped in again, the visions reappeared beautiful visions of coolness, and sweetness, and shade that, it seemed later, only came to tantalize him. He was now a soul in hell, tortured with the sight of clustering green trees and flowing streams.
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