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Again your name had a prominent part in it, and this time there was no vagueness whatever in the communication made to me. I was bidden, in plain terms, to make you an offer of marriage." Constance drooped her eyes, but gave no other sign of disturbance.
One day he came in from the postoffice fairly bubbling over with excitement. "Say, Em'ly, when folks have money they travel. Let's go somewhere!" "Why, Reuben where?" quavered his wife, dropping into the nearest chair. "Oh, I dunno," with cheerful vagueness; then, suddenly animated, "Let's go to Boston and see the sights!" "But, Reuben, we don't know no one there," ventured his wife doubtfully.
I had the sense to make a duplicate of the right parcel, and now, my friend, you've got the duplicate and I've got the jewels. An old dodge, Father Brown a very old dodge." "Yes," said Father Brown, and passed his hand through his hair with the same strange vagueness of manner. "Yes, I've heard of it before."
Cells and protoplasm have become so thoroughly a part of modern biology that we can hardly picture to ourselves the vagueness of knowledge before these facts were recognized. Perhaps a somewhat crude comparison will illustrate the relation which the discovery of cells had to the study of life.
Rooth who resorted to such conspicuous secrecies that, to feel the game up and his interview over, he had no need to see the figure reappear on second thoughts and dodge about in the dusk with a sportive, vexatious vagueness. Evidently Miriam's warning of a few minutes before had been founded: a cab had deposited her anxious mother at the garden door. Mrs.
Barney looked back at it with unrecognizing eyes, this gentle, misty, blue vagueness was not the solemn, sombre mountain that he knew. He gazed at it only for a moment longer; then his heart swelled and he burst into tears. On and on they went through the flat country. The boy felt that he could scarcely breathe.
For, in stories of this kind, the vagueness of the reader's knowledge adds to the effect upon his mind, because, while he sees that mighty agencies are at work in perilous situations, his very ignorance of their exact nature deepens the feeling of awe they are of themselves calculated to produce.
But he was as far as ever from loving Nancy Lord. Her beauty, and a certain growing charm in her companionship, had lured him on; his habitual idleness, and the vagueness of his principles, made him guilty at last of what a moralist would call very deliberate rascality. He himself was inclined to see his behaviour in that light; yet why had Nancy so smoothed the path of temptation?
"May you live to grow old!" resumed Soot. "And you have arrived safely? Come in. Where are you going?" "I'm going yonder westward," replied Mamba, with charming conventional vagueness, as he sat down on the mat. "But it appears to me," said Ancient Soot, passing from the region of compliment into that of fact, and looking somewhat closely at his friend, "it seems to me that you have been hurt."
Provided it passed she would rather not know. Small things, of course, she noticed; small outward signs. He had neglected The Times for one thing, left off his speckled waistcoats for another. He was absent-minded sometimes; showed vagueness in practical details where hitherto he showed decision. And he had begun to talk in his sleep again.
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