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Then it was all done, and upon those upper floors there was no creature but herself. She had lighted no fire and eaten nothing. She had neither food, fuel, nor money. All was gone. "It is well," she said, "that I am not hungry, and that I would rather be colder than warmer." She did not wish for warmth, even when night fell and brought more biting iciness.
Overhead the constellations glowed like crown jewels on black velvet, but along the eastern horizon, where the morning-star burned, the sky had blanched; and the air was keen with the additional iciness that always precedes the dawn.
'What! you suspect me... 'I suspect other people of nothing, Avdey cut him short with cutting iciness, 'of which I would not suspect myself; but I have the weakness to suppose that other men are no better than I am. 'You are mistaken, Kister retorted emphatically; 'other men are better than you. 'I congratulate them upon it, Lutchkov dropped carelessly; 'but...
Having withstood such strong attacks upon my fortitude, it is possible that I may be of a cold and insensible temperament, amounting to iciness, in such matters; and therefore my impressions of the live pillars of the Capitol at Washington must be received with such grains of allowance as this free confession may seem to demand.
"Done," said John Law. The iciness in the air seemed now an actual thing. There was, in the nature of this play, something which no man at that board, hardened gamesters as they all were, had ever met before. It was indeed as though Fate were there, with her hand upon the shoulder of a favored son. "You lose, Mr. Castleton," said Law, calmly, as the cards came again his way.
Physically unable herself to be regretful under a burden three parts enrapturing her, the girl expected her mother to display a shadowy vexation, with a proud word or two, that would summon her thrilling sympathy in regard to the fourth part: namely, the aristocratic iciness of country magnates, who took them up and cast them off; as they had done, she thought, at Craye Farm and at Creckholt: she remembered it, of the latter place, wincingly, insurgently, having loved the dear home she had been expelled from by her pride of the frosty surrounding people or no, not all, but some of them.
"My feelings!" he cried, the iciness of his demeanor giving way under the strain of emotion. "One of the " he said; "one of the the noblest one of the noblest " Again he paused. "Oh, Jane didn't mean anything," said Mrs. Baxter. "And if you think Miss Pratt is so nice, I'll ask May Parcher to bring her to tea with us some day.
I thought journalism was generally done in the offices of a newspaper the sort of journalism that he used to undertake." "Nice little crib, isn't it?" Fenn remarked, glancing around. "Cosy little place, I call it." Something in the man's expression as he advanced towards her brought all the iciness back to her tone and manner.
"As my man of affairs," she continued with her magnificent iciness, "you may now tell me what you have been able to do for me about a cottage in Newport." "Very well, here goes as your man of affairs: You said you wished to be in Newport from the middle of July to early in September." "Yes." "The house, of those available, which I thought would come nearest suiting you is 'The Heron's Nest."
I was too well acquainted with the chastity of her heart and the iciness of her constitution, to suppose a moment that the gratification of the senses had any influence over her; I was well convinced that her only motive was to guard me from dangers, which appeared otherwise inevitable, by this extraordinary favor, which she did not consider in the same light that women usually do; as will presently be explained.
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