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If you send your spaniel into a muddy pool, you ought to take care, when he comes out, that he does not shake the filth he has collected over his master. 'I wonder, sir, that you should continue one of a profession which you treat with such unsparing severity. 'And I, sir, do not wonder at your wonderings.
The call came and was accepted after the signs of due and prayerful consideration. But as for Nancy, she had left off certain of her wonderings forever. For the young rector of St.
"And amid our wonderings and longings," said Seth, "how the old bellflower-tree seemed to stretch her kind arms down to us as if she would hold us away from that world beyond the hills." "And now I can remember that the clover whispered to us, and the cricket in the raspberry-hedge sang to us of contentment," said Abner. "The robin, too, carolled in the linden."
The afternoon was waning when the Raymonds again entered their family carriage and the captain gave the order, "Home to Woodburn." And now the children began to think of the home celebration of Christmas eve, and to renew their wonderings as to what arrangements might have been made for their own enjoyment of its return.
Some fascination which he possessed, an intense fascination for women, entirely mysterious and inexplicable, a thing rooted in the body, absolutely overpowered her at that moment. It was he who broke the physical spell. He lifted his lips from hers and she heard the words: "I want you to marry me. Will you?" Instantly she was released. A flood of thoughts, doubts, wonderings, flowed through her.
And soon after that, clad in their savage robes, they supped. They ate with their fingers and drank out of the bottles, sans apology. Strange were their speculations, their wonderings, their plans now discussed specifically, now half-voiced by a mere word that thrilled them both with sudden, poignant emotion. An so an hour passed, and the night deepened toward the birth of another day.
In the train they held each other's hands under the cover of a newspaper; and sometimes Maurice's foot touched hers, and then they looked at each other, and smiled but each was wondering: his wonder was, "What made her offended at Edith?" And hers was, "How can he like to be with an eleven-year-old child!" Their talk, however, confessed no wonderings!
Slowly, subtly, with irresistible centrifugal force with a force which perhaps it would not have acquired but for that illness the idea, the passion of Universal Brotherhood had sucked into itself all his errant wonderings on the riddle of existence.
Jane met them in the hall, full of her own and Lady Rotherwood's wonderings; she hurried Lily upstairs, and skilful, quick, and ready she helped her to dress in a very short time. As they ran down Reginald overtook them, and they entered the drawing-room as the dinner-bell was ringing. William did not appear for some time, and his apologies were not such as to smooth matters for his sister.
God must have put all these doubts and wonderings into my mind, and there must be an answer for them somewhere. Mr. Wynkoop is a good man, I truly respect him. I want to please him, and I admire his intellectual attainments; but how can he accept so much on faith, and be content? Do you really suppose he is content?
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