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And therefore where the body and the mind are in disorder, to what use serve these external conveniences: considering that the least prick with a pin, or the least passion of the soul, is sufficient to deprive one of the pleasure of being sole monarch of the world. At the first twitch of the gout it signifies much to be called Sir and Your Majesty! "Totus et argento conflatus, totus et auro;"
The second shot caught it just below one of the fungoid-looking ears, and the beast gave a spasmodic all-over twitch and was still. He reloaded mechanically, but there was no need for a third shot. The damnthing was as dead as he would have been except for Little Fuzzy's warning. He mentioned that to Little Fuzzy, who was calmly retrieving the empty cartridges.
She gave his sleeve a little twitch, smiled confidingly in his face, and sat down to do some much-needed mending. Having posted Sweeny at the foot of the ladders, with instructions to let none of the women descend, Thurstane hastened back to the exterior wall, drawn by a horrible fascination.
'Learned studies' will tickle his vanity, and should go far to appease him." I was on the point of rising. M. Charnot anticipated me. Grief is not always keenest when most recent. As he approached I saw he was more irritated and upset than at the moment of the accident. Above his pinched, cleanshaven chin his lips shot out with an angry twitch. The portfolio shook under his arm.
Le Gardeur repelled the temptation more readily as he felt a twitch on his sleeve from the hand of Philibert. "Well, as you will, Le Gardeur; we have all had enough and over, I dare say. Ha! ha! Colonel Philibert rather puts us to the blush, or would were not our cheeks so well-painted in the hues of rosy Bacchus." Philibert, with official courtesy, bade adieu to the Intendant and the company.
After the hymns I began to talk, and the candles burnt lower, and some of them flickered out, and I could see a boy here and there twitch a bit of candle as it was going out. I said, “Put the candles out, boys. I can talk in the dark.” It was a wonderful service, and here and there you could hear the boys sighing and crying as they thought of home and father and mother.
"I perceive," said the young author, with a certain vinegary twitch, "that you are unacquainted with my opuscula. I am a convinced authoritarian. I share none of those illusory, Utopian fancies with which empirics blind themselves and exasperate the ignorant. The day of these ideas is, believe me, past, or at least passing." "When I look about me " began Otto.
He behaved with great dignity, but seemed deeply affected; the ladies in the front pews said they could see his face twitch; but he never looked handsomer. The five clergymen came from the back of the chancel in their white surplices. The ceremony proceeded to the end.
There are times now and then now and then " his words quickened a little, "when a man would almost give the very soul out of his body to be at peace to be at peace; times when it's downright agony to watch a fly buzzing up and down the pane and know he hasn't even the strength for that when every muscle is in torture, and every movement means hell " He broke off; his lips usually so steady had begun to twitch.
They talked, as they fished, of politics, religion, philosophy, human nature, the useful arts, abolition, and most other subjects that would be likely to interest a couple of Americans who had nothing to do but to twitch, from time to time, at two lines dangling in the water.
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