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Go away, if you please. Good-evening." She dropped a curtsey with a surly coquetry, charming of its kind. Beppo protested that the room was dear to him because there first he had known for one blissful half-second the sweetness of her mouth. "Who told you that persons who don't like your mistress are going to talk in there?" said Aennchen. "You," said Beppo.
I shall never, in my oldest grayest year, in a ducky cap by the fireplace, forget the half-second when your hand came flashing along, and caught that man on the running-board. But it wasn't just that melodrama. If that hadn't happened, something else would have, to symbolize you.
All were unanimous that either Le Gros or O'Gorman should furnish food for their famishing companions, in other words, that the combat, so unexpectedly postponed, should be again resumed. There was nothing unfair in this, except to the Irish man. He had certainly secured his triumph, when interrupted. If another half-second had been allowed him, his antagonist would have lain lifeless at his feet.
But certain though it is that Frith's masterpiece, or engravings of it, have provided thousands with half-hours of curious and fanciful pleasure, it is not less certain that no one has experienced before it one half-second of aesthetic rapture and this although the picture contains several pretty passages of colour, and is by no means badly painted.
"That half-second is very amusing," said Jack laughing; "if there had been only eighty or eighty-six net, one might still be permitted to entertain some doubts; but eighty-six and a half admits nothing of the kind. But why not three-quarters or six-eighths, they would do as well?" "What is more natural than to reckon the fraction, if we are desirous of obtaining absolute precision?
Down, down into the roaring abyss! For one half-second one lightning flash his twisted figure, like a slight black speck was seen against the wide roseate glory of the tumbling cascade then it disappeared, engulfed and lost for ever!
Ispravnik,’ said I, ‘be our Napravnik.’ ‘What do you mean by Napravnik?’ said he. I saw, at the first half-second, that it had missed fire. He stood there so glum. ‘I wanted to make a joke,’ said I, ‘for the general diversion, as Mr.
In a minute in another half-second he felt he would arrive at the solution of the tremendous puzzle; but here, as always happens, his mind dropped away from those heights with a rush of a wounded bird, and passing his hand before his eyes, he shook his head. 'I also have lost it, he said sadly. 'It is one of the Gates to the Way, but for me it has been shut many years.
"Allah!" he said, in praise of that which had come unto him, "Allah, there is no God but Thee," just as, with a sudden swish, a flock of startled pigeons flashing like jewels in the setting sun new low down across his head, bringing an end to the battle. For one half-second the jaguar's green eyes shifted, and the dog was at its throat.
They came in contact as if by a mutual understanding, and, though they were en rapport but a half-second, a close observer might have noticed a small roll of paper passed from one to the other from the brown fingers to the white ones!
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