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This beautiful abode was the favorite retreat of Louis, doubtless because, in harmony with his feelings, it combined grandeur with sadness. He often passed whole months there, without seeing any one whatsoever, incessantly reading and re-reading mysterious papers, writing unknown documents, which he locked up in an iron coffer, of which he alone had the key.
For a minute or two, the message was meaningless. He stood reading and re-reading the figures which indicated hour of despatch and of delivery. Presently he asked for a railway-guide, and with shaking hands, with agony of mental confusion, sought out the next train northwards. There was just time to catch it; not time to pack his bag. He rushed out to the cab. "The circumstances are these.
She hears the men of science, but she listens to those who talk to her of religion; pleasure attracts her, but sacrifice moves her; and she hardly knows whether she hates or whether she adores the crucifix. Later. Still re-reading the sonnets and the miscellaneous poems of Goethe.
We follow this same re-reading of Roman and Grecian story untroubled, and see the heroes of our childhood turn into races and sun-myths without calling the Muse of History a fraud.
Ever your devoted father Having finished his confession, Jolyon sat with a thin cheek on his hand, re-reading. There were things in it which hurt him so much, when he thought of Jon reading them that he nearly tore the letter up.
On re-reading his letter, Dyce was troubled by only one reflection. He had committed himself to a definite theory, and, should it jar with Lady Ogram's way of thinking, there would probably be little use in his going down to Hollingford. Might he not have left the matter vague? Was it not enough to describe himself as a student of sociology? In which case He did not follow out the argument.
It was called the "Rediscovery of the Unique," and re-reading it I perceive not only how bad and even annoying it was in manner a thing I have long known but also how remarkably bad it was in expression. I have good reason for doubting whether my powers of expression in these uses have very perceptibly improved, but at any rate I am doing my best now with that previous failure before me.
I find that the marks on that fatal bullet correspond precisely with those on the bullet fired through the pongee coat." Startling as was this revelation, Kennedy paused only an instant before the next. "Now I have another demonstration. A certain note figures in this case. Mr. Parker was reading it, or perhaps re-reading it, at the time he was shot.
But now, you may say what you please, I see nothing but darkness ahead. You may laugh as much as you like... pray heaven we don't have to cry one of these days! I don't believe that day is so far off." The only one of the household who thought differently was the son, a lad of twenty, just re-reading his Roman history, and boiling over with excitement.
You are right in saying we have none ourselves, and 'cackle' instead of laugh. And Don Quixote what end can be served in making a noble mind ridiculous? I hear you say practical. So it is. We are very narrow, I know. But we like wit practical again! He trifled with the letter for some time, re-reading chosen passages as he walked about the room, and considering he scarce knew what.
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