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Taine, with practised skill, had prepared the way for her protege, by subtly stimulating the curiosity of her guests the appearance of the two men, alone, would have attracted their attention The artist, with his strong, splendidly proportioned, athletic body, and his handsome, clean-cut intellectual face calmly sure of himself with the air of one who knows that his veins are rich with the wealth of many generations of true culture and refinement; and the novelist easily the most famous of his day tall, emaciated, grotesquely stooped with his homely face seamed and lined, world-worn and old, and his sharp eyes peering from under his craggy brows with that analyzing, cynical, half-pathetic half-humorous expression certainly presented a contrast too striking to escape notice.
Even on the streets of the little city, he found himself hoping to catch a glimpse of the uncouth figure and the homely, world-worn face of the man whose unusual personality had so attracted him. The day was nearly gone when Conrad Lagrange again appeared.
"Was it that tall cavalry colonel whom you see over there?" "Precisely so." "Oh! he is a friend of mine; feel no alarm. Will you grant me the favor I dare hope for?" "Yes, monsieur." Her tone betrayed an emotion so new and so deep that the lawyer's world-worn soul was touched.
She was very young to suffer that oppression of the world-worn; it was the penalty she paid for her birthright of heart and mind. By midnight they were lying side by side, but no 'goodnight' had passed between them.
"However, that won't be easy; I won't BE left." And he had turned his eyes about again, taking in the pretty room that she had just described as her final refuge, the place of peace for a world-worn couple, to which she had lately retired with "Bob." "I shall keep this spot in sight. Say what you will, I shall need you. I'm not, you know," he declared, "going to give you up for anybody."
He had, in fact, by this time, so far as any confidence she might have reposed in him was concerned, dropped out of her life completely, and left her as friendless and as much alone as she would have been with the veriest stranger. That night when she went home she felt world-worn and weary, but next morning, out in the garden with Sir George Galbraith budding roses, she became young again.
And there is really a contentment in being able to make this poor, world-worn, hopeless, half-crazy man so entirely comfortable as he seems to be here. He is an admirable cook. We had some roast veal and a baked rice-pudding on Sunday, really a fine dinner, and cooked in better style than Mary can equal; and George Curtis came to dine with us.
"It lifts its head like a glorified martyr," said Beecher, and Julia Taft Bayne wrote: Come here where Greylock rolls Itself toward heaven; in these deep silences, World-worn and fretted souls, Bathe and be clean. To the child's idea its top was very close against the sky, and its memory and inspiration remained with her through life. Susan was very intelligent and precocious.
"That was because I couched my communication in language designedly misleading. I employed the terminology of ghost-lore. I said 'haunted' and 'appear, and things like that. And you were very properly and naturally deceived. I confidently expected that you would be. No, it is not given to world-stained and world-worn old men like me to see holy apparitions." "Old men?
Ishmael hesitated; but only because he was utterly unprepared for the proposal; and then he answered: "Yes, sir; if it should appear to be really necessary to your interests." "Oh, Ishmael! I am an old and world-worn man, and I have had much experience; but, indeed, I know not how to break to you the news I have to bring!" groaned the judge.
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