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But Pilkins did it as delicately and heartily as any caliph could have done. And when it came to the point, the youth turned to him, soft-voiced and with his undiminished smile. "I don't want to seem unappreciative, old man," he said, with a youth's somewhat too-early spontaneity of address, "but, you see, I can't accept anything from a stranger.
Do you remember The House with the Green Shutters I can never think of the book without a pang of personal grief for the too-early death of the author how the bitter, ironical temper of the Scotch villagers is realized? Well, our ironical temper is just the antithesis of that.
People came in, one after another, to look upon her and wept that one so young and good should die. They closed her eyes they laid her in her grave-clothes, and folded her pale hands and there she lay! And now we leave that chamber of the too-early dead. Mr. Gorton's feelings of anger soon subsided. In a few hours he felt oppressed with a sense of the grief Ellen would experience.
But even this was a necessity for the right flowering of religion. The age was not ready, politically or intellectually, for the ripening of the thoughts of the prophets. Had they ripened then, they would have fallen to the ground, as the untimely fruit of a too-early spring.
"Though I didn't expect," he admitted as he lay fronting in the wide old mirrors, interminable reflections of a pillow dinted by his too-early whitened head, "I really did not expect to have it begin at forty-two."
But now" a note of ecstatic desire came into her voice, and she clasped her hands "but now, to see Paris! the Louvre! the Luxembourg! It's the dream of my life!" Mrs. De Peyster again gave her cousin a suspicious look. "Olivetta, have you been allowing M. Dubois to pay you any more attention?" "No, no, of course not," cried Olivetta, and a sudden color tinted the too-early autumn of her cheeks.
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