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The momentary revival of energy was more pitiful to Flaxman than his first quiet resignation. He himself wrote every day to Rose. Strange love-letters! in which the feeling that could not be avowed ran as a fiery under-current through all the sad brotherly record of the invalid's doings and prospects. There was deep trouble in Long Whindale. Mrs.
He reviewed the events of the day and their under-current of intrigue. The King himself might have been concerned in that and Preston also. It had been on the whole a rather decent performance, he mused, and perhaps it had kept him out of worse trouble than he was now in. But what had happened to Margaret? He reread her note.
Ganew; but I'm inclined to think it's the Lord's way o' smoothin' things for some o' his children, to let you kind o' slink off," and somehow Elder Kinney fancied he heard little Draxy say, "Oh, sir, let the poor man go." There was something marvelous in his under-current of consciousness of "little Draxy."
Walton watched her, a sudden flash of clairvoyance revealed a portion of the truth, and she ejaculated, mentally, "The man whom Madeleine loves is unaware of her love, as Bertram was of Lady Geraldine's." This suggestion, born in the under-current of her thoughts, floated constantly to the surface awaiting confirmation.
She was indeed an admirable talker, considering how long she had held her tongue for lack of a listener, pleasant, sunny and shadowy, often piquant, and giving glimpses of all a woman's various and readily changeable moods and humors; and beneath them all there ran a deep and powerful under-current of earnestness, which did not fail to produce in the listener's mind something like a temporary faith in what she herself believed so fervently.
The opposite side of the pool was hemmed in by rocks about six feet high, and the direction of the under-current was at once shown by poor old "Madcap" being swept up against this high wall of rock, where she remained paddling with all her might in an upright position. I saw the poor beast would be sucked under, and yet I could not save her. However, I did my best at the risk of falling in myself.
The Frenchman looked back at him with as little love as Tu-Kila-Kila himself would have displayed had his face been visible. "Yes, you are a very great god," he answered, in the conventional tone of Polynesian adulation, with just a faint under-current of irony running through his accent as he spoke. "You say the truth. You do, indeed, know all things.
I follow a slow person's talk, and keep a perfectly clear under-current of my own beneath it. Under both runs obscurely a consciousness belonging to a third train of reflections, independent of the two others. I will try to write out a Mental movement in three parts. A. -First voice, or Mental Soprano, thought follows a woman talking. B. Second voice, or Mental Barytone, my running accompaniment.
But think of that vast amount of young life running to waste, sweeping through the sewers of the social fabric, an under-current of taint and desolation!
It seems to me to want intelligence of the subtler feelings, the under-current of emotion which constitutes the chief beauty of the situation and the character. Am I jealous when I say this? Read on and judge. On our return that night, when I had seen the Venosta to bed, I went into my own room, opened the window, and looked out.
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