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Proverbially there is no situation more lonely to the feeling than the midst of a strange crowd; and Diana, sitting at her window and looking down into the busy street, felt alone and cast adrift as she never had felt in her life before.
Those fellows lie there harmless enough, and I am still as I urged that I should be your only escort." "A nobler protector never woman had," she assured me, and I felt a hot pearl of moisture fail upon my brow. "You were wise, at least, to journey with a Fool," I answered her. "For fools are proverbially lucky folk, and to-night has proven me of all fools the luckiest.
Each day he felt certain he would overtake them, but each evening found him trying to console himself with the reflection that a "stern chase" is proverbially a long one, and that next day would do it. Thus they struggled on, and finally arrived at the city of Sacramento, without having set eyes on the wanderer.
He did not flinch from the lightning; it was as if he did not see it. "What would she do, I wonder, if the prodigal returned," he said quietly. "Would she be glad or sorry?" "He never will," returned Hugh quickly. "He never can after fifteen years. Think of it! Besides she wouldn't have him if he did." "Women are proverbially faithful," remarked Conyers cynically.
The trouble was that these latter classes, though delightful company to one of Andrew's sympathetic disposition, were considerably less remunerative than the irritating inquirers; and so long as there seemed any possibility of his father's return to sanity and his office, he felt that he could never regard his position as wholly satisfactory; on the other hand, though a sick lion may possibly be compared with a live dog, a defunct lion is proverbially out of the running.
Again, the freer intercourse between the sexes tends incalculably to smooth that course of true love once so proverbially rough, but now indeed in danger of being made too unexcitingly smooth. Yet if, as a result, certain old combinations of romance are becoming obsolete, new ones, no less picturesque, and even more vital in their drama, are being evolved every day by the new conditions.
None the less well, my nose, now, from such glimpses of it as mirrors have hitherto afforded, does not appear to be a snub-nose." "Ah, but appearances are proverbially deceitful," observed King Smoit. "And about the left hand corner," protested Queen Sylvia Tereu, "I detect a distinct resemblance." "Now I may seem unduly obtuse," said Jurgen, "for I am a little obtuse.
And of course, having thus begun by calling it bad names, I will not for a moment insult the intelligence of my readers by supposing them to share so foolish a delusion. I beg to state from the outset that I write this article entirely for the benefit of Other People. You and I, O proverbially Candid and Intelligent One, it need hardly be said, are better informed.
"And I pray you, neighbour," said the other, "let the maid lay on some more coals or stir up the fire, for my husband in his lifetime ever loved to see a good fire. God grant him fire everlasting!" Those towns are not far apart, but the people of the former have the reputation of being very clever, while those of the latter are proverbially as stupid.
This ought to be early spring, but the weather is really colder and more disagreeable than any which winter brought us; and, proverbially fickle as spring sunshine and showers are in England, ours is a far more capricious and trying season.
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