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Then we would read together, in the half-darkened 'parlour, something not very deep, but beautiful, like Hawthorne's stories; or we would together seek for these perfect lines of poetry which haunt the memory.
The old existence has gone, as well as the seignioral estate. The Cherry Garden is to be torn down; the blinds are all lowered, and in the half-darkened rooms, the old servant, who is nearly a century old, wanders about among the disordered furniture. Tchekoff is a true product of Russian literature, an autochthon plant, nourished by his natal sap.
The fundamental condition is that of finding a comfortable position, i.e., a position of equilibrium. As they are seated for this exercise, they must therefore make themselves comfortable either in their little chairs or on the ground. When immobility is obtained, the room is half-darkened, or else the children close their eyes, or cover them with their hands.
As soon as he found himself alone in the half-darkened rooms, he arose from his chair and began to walk restlessly up and down the floor, relieving the pent-up anguish of his bosom by such deep groans as had required all his self-control to suppress while he was in the presence of others. Thus walking and groaning in great agony of mind, he passed the few remaining dark hours of the morning.
You pulled out that iron handle that had screwed up his cell, and it somehow altered the machinery and opened all the doors." Seizing MacIan by the elbow he bundled him bodily out into the open corridor and ran him on till they saw daylight through a half-darkened window. "All the same," said Evan, like one answering in an ordinary conversation, "he did ask you whether he could help you."
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