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How often he ventured to repeat it at the Phi Beta Kappa dinners I am not sure; but as he reproduced it with his lively embellishments and fresh versions and artful circumlocutions, not one person in ten remembered that he had listened to those same words in those same accents only a twelvemonth ago.
Atweel, ay, sirs, Gourlay has that morning's work to blame for the poor wife he has now. Him and Munn never spoke to each other again, and Munn died within the twelvemonth he got his death that morning on the Fleckie Road. But, for a' so pack's they had been, Gourlay never looked near him."
A daughter of hers to marry within a twelvemonth of her widowhood!" "There, you see, Camille." "And, besides, she loved Raynal so; she has not forgotten him as we have, almost." "Ungrateful creature that I am!" sighed Josephine! "She mourns for him every day. Often I see her eyes suddenly fill; that is for him.
Pope refers in his satires to a strange power of creating love and admiration by just "touching the brink of all we hate." Now, into this perilous, but singularly elective department, Mr. Stewart could enter with safety and at will. We heard him, scarce a twelvemonth since, deliver a discourse of singular power on the sin-offering as minutely described by the divine penman in Leviticus.
A marriage with my son, whom I should be compelled to disown, would be followed by years of misery; they would be separated, my dear madam, in a twelvemonth. To break off this attachment, which is more fancied than real, as you and I know very well, will cost the dear girl but a few tears, and she is happy again.
At any rate, Lady Tranmore was often inclined to think that since the return to London now about a twelvemonth since both she and William had had to do with a different Kitty.
The other picture was on a New Year's Day, just a twelvemonth from the day of Little Bel's exhibition in the Wissan Bridge school-house.
Wherefore I will make here avow, that to-morn, without longer abiding, I shall labour in the quest of the Sangreal, that I shall hold me out a twelvemonth and a day, or more if need be, and never shall I return again unto the court till I have seen it more openly than it hath been seen here; and if I may not speed I shall return again as he that may not be against the will of our Lord Jesu Christ.
Stenson waited on us, grave and imperturbable as if we had put back the clock of time a twelvemonth. The only covert reference he made to the event was to murmur discreetly in my ear: "I have brought up a bottle of the Pommery, Sir Marcus, in the hope you would drink some." I was touched, for the good fellow had no other way of showing his solicitude. Carlotta allowed him to fill her glass.
His happiness continues to flow. All his reasonable expectations are fulfilled, and he seems to live longer in a single day, on a single Sunday now, than he once did in a twelvemonth; it makes him so happy to know he has made many others happy.
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