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Harnilton unwrapped the remaining picture. It was a young man with a thim, delicate face and large eyes rather sad in their expression. On the back was written in German, "Karl von Winterbach, to his beloved wife." "He looks like the picture of some German poet," murmured Charlotte thoughtfully. "The poor little soul had evidently dropped part of her name," said Mr.
A few years will turn them out nervous, exhausted imbeciles. Those who have given up their midnights to spiced wines, and hot suppers, and ride home through winter's cold, unwrapped from the elements, will at last be recorded suicides. There is but a short step from the ball-room to the grave-yard. There are consumptions and fierce neuralgias close on the track.
These he carefully untied and unwound. Then he unwrapped the robes and blankets and when he uncovered the face, he saw, as he had expected to, the face of his lost love, Pretty Feather. As he sat gazing on her beautiful young face, his heart ached for his poor friend.
I could see by the strings and woolsacks on the floor that she had had it unwrapped. But now she was tying the wagon-sheet over it again, and there was a kind of solemn, whitish look on her face. "'Ain't wrapping up the music again, are you, Marilla? I asks. 'What's the matter with just a couple of tunes for to see how she goes under the saddle? "'Not to-night, Rush, says she.
Cavour had reached Venus safely. But he had never departed. To his astonishment Alan found a sturdy volume lying under the pile of bones a book, wrapped in metal plates. Somehow it had withstood the passage of centuries, here in this quiet cave. Gently he unwrapped the book. The cover dropped off at his touch; he turned back the first three pages, which were blank.
But Murk had noticed that Prale had stopped in at a printing office during the walk, and shortly after they finished dinner, a bell boy brought a small package to the suite. Prale unwrapped it, and some cards spilled out. "Nice cards, Murk," he said. "I had them printed this afternoon.
Fullaway and Allerdyke craned their necks over his shoulders as he unwrapped and spread the bits of paper out before them. And it was Fullaway who broke the silence with a sharp exclamation. "Bank-notes!" he said. "Russian bank-notes! And new ones!" Fullaway's exclamation was followed by a murmur of astonishment from Celia, and by a low growl which meant many things from Allerdyke.
As I am! down to the ground." "And what do you want to see me about?" inquired Copplestone. "What's this bit of news you've got to tell?" Zachary Spurge thrust a hand inside his velveteen jacket and drew out a much folded and creased paper, which, on being unwrapped, proved to be the bill which offered a reward for the finding of Bassett Oliver. He held it up before his visitor. "This!" he said.
With respectful care the great canvas was brought in, unwrapped and lifted to its chosen hanging place. Seated in his armchair, Gard with mixed emotions watched it elevated and straightened. The pictured face smiled down at him impersonal yet human, glowing, vivid with color, alive with that suggestion of eternal life that art alone in its highest expression can give.
Schultz wrote me of the first occasion: "When I entered the lodge, it was already well filled with men who had been invited to participate in the ceremony. The medicine man was aged and gray-headed, and his feeble limbs could scarcely support his body. Between him and his wife was the bundle which contained the medicine pipe, as yet unwrapped, lying on a carefully folded buffalo robe.
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