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He heard the sentence quite unaffectedly and with a gentle smile upon his lips; then, when the reading was finished, he said "I look for no better fate, gentlemen, and when, more than a year ago, I paused on the little hill that overlooks the town, I saw beforehand the place where my grave would be; and so I ought to thank God and man far having prolonged my existence up to to-day."
Fortunately, he had no difficulty in inducing both parties to accede to his request. The next day he returned to San Francisco. Armed with the affidavits which were to restore to him the position in life of which his uncle had wickedly deprived him, Hector returned to San Francisco. He found Gregory unaffectedly glad to see him. "Glad to see you back, Hector," he said; "I missed you."
In reality he had been hunting up an old model whom he wanted for his next picture, and who had silently left Museum Buildings some months before without leaving his address. He had genuinely admired her, though he had forgotten her, and he was unaffectedly delighted to see her again. That one chance meeting was the first of many. Flowers came to Rachel's little room, and romance came with them.
It is with philosophy as with religion: men marvel at the absurdity of other people's tenets, while exactly parallel absurdities remain in their own, and the same man is unaffectedly astonished that words can be mistaken for things, who is treating other words as if they were things every time he opens his mouth to discuss.
There sat Colonel Adams, still unaffectedly dressed as a pantaloon, with the knobbed whalebone nodding above his brow, but with his poor old eyes sad enough to have sobered a Saturnalia. Sir Leopold Fischer was leaning against the mantelpiece and heaving with all the importance of panic. "This is a very painful matter, Father Brown," said Adams.
Miss Anthea, bless her dear heart! calls me her aunt, but I'm not really Oh dear no! I'm no relation at all! But I've lived with her long enough to feel as if I was her aunt, and her uncle, and her father, and her mother all rolled into one, though I should be rather small to be so many, shouldn't I?" and she laughed so gaily, and unaffectedly, that Bellew laughed too.
He may be a dab at recognizing his friends the “motives,” but his discoveries don’t apparently go as far as tenors! No one doubts that hundreds of people unaffectedly love German opera, but that as many affect to appreciate it in order to appear intellectual is certain.
I do not mean to say that it would not be pleasanter to share one's rambles with a congenial companion; but it is not easy to find one; either there are differences of opinion, or the subtle barriers of age to overleap, or one is conscious that there are regions of one's mind in which a friend will inevitably and fretfully miss his way there are not many friends, for anyone, to whom his mind can lie perfectly and unaffectedly open; and thus, though I do not hesitate to say that I would prefer the society of the perfect friend to my loneliness, yet I prefer my loneliness to the incursions of the imperfect friend.
"Is that what your religion has brought you to, Ardea a full-grown belief in a Providence that takes cognizance of our little ant-wanderings up and down the human runways?" "Yes, I think so," she said; but she said it without hesitancy or a shadow of doubt. "I'm glad; glad you have attained," he rejoined quite unaffectedly.
Customers coming in at the moment to occupy the house-agent's attention, Wilding went down the street, and entering a bookseller's shop, asked if he could be informed of the Reverend John Harker's present address. The bookseller looked unaffectedly shocked and astonished, and made no answer. Wilding repeated his question.
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