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Sometimes he looked at Clara in a way that I made her feel that her clothes were being stripped from her body, and that she was being made to stand naked in the room before her visitor. The experience, when it came, was not entirely a physical one. It was only in part that. When the thing happened Clara saw her whole life being stripped bare.
Baram Singh reflected. "First of all the Captain-sahib offered a box of cheroots to his visitor, and his visitor refused and took a pipe from his pocket. The Captain-sahib then lit a cheroot for himself and replaced the box on the top of the bureau." "And after that?" asked Travers.
And women there are who become sad when the word goes over the fire of how the Evil Spirit came to select that valley for an abiding-place. In the summers there is one visitor, however, to that valley, of which the Yeehats do not know. It is a great, gloriously coated wolf, like, and yet unlike, all other wolves.
"Well, you ask the doctors. There's a good few cases of lunacy and suicide in this country all caused by a love charm; so when Ma Chit sidles up, showing her teeth, and offers you a smoke you will know what to do. Now," concluded the visitor, scrambling to his feet, "I must be on the move.
The patient answered, ``It 's a hobby. ``But, said the visitor, ``what 's the difference between a horse and a hobby? ``Why, said the patient, ``there 's an enormous difference; a horse you can get off from, a hobby you can't.
From his position, a little behind the visitor, he had an excellent view of her as she sat erect in the wicker chair, her parasol across her lap. Miss Betty was plump and short, and had a dimple in her chin.
"Oh! nobody doubts that Sally has repented," said the embarrassed visitor. "Oh, they don't?" said Hetty, in a sarcastic tone; "well then I'd like to ask them what they mean by treating her as they do. I'd like to ask them what the Lord does to sinners that repent.
"Yesterday I failed to gain admission as a visitor, to-day I come as a labourer. We work in a mysterious way, sir." "Is it necessary for Mr. Pless to resort to a subterfuge of this character in order to get a message to me?" I demanded indignantly. He shrugged his shoulders. "It was not necessary yesterday, but it is to-day," said he. He leaned closer and lowered his voice.
Some to whom he administered the last rites of the Catholic church, showed by the glassy expression of their lusterless eyes, that the grim visitor already held them within his grasp.
An old woman in a parish adjoining mine, having lost a child, received the condolences of a visitor with, "Yes, mum; we seems to be regular unlucky, for only a few weeks ago we lost a pig."
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