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Martin had coarsened in the six years since they had first known him. There had been something unspoiled, vigorous, and fresh about him then that was gone now. Alix sensed that his associates in the mining towns in which he had lived had been men and women of a low type. The defiling influence had left its mark. Missing entertainment in his home, he had sought it elsewhere.
The same clean-shaven classic face and clustering hair, the same glittering, amorous hazel eyes; the same charming and kindly smile, all these attributes were in Miraudin's face, indefinably coarsened, while in Fontenelle's they remained refined and inicative of the highest breeding.
She had been the victim of a mistaken justice, made outcast by the law she had never wronged.... His mood of respect was inevitable, since he had some sensibilities, though they were coarsened, and they sensed vaguely the maelstrom of emotions that now swirled in the girl's breast. To Mary Turner, this was the wonderful hour. In it, the vindication of her innocence was made complete.
As she stood now, waiting Adrien's approach, he could not help mentally contrasting her natural, spiritual type of beauty with the made-up and coarsened charms of Ada Lester, and he wondered how he could have been so blind as not to notice it before. He was not the only one who admired her.
He rose from the sands and sauntered towards her. He came and stood silently beside her. "Ibrahim," she began. She looked at him, and was silent. Then she called on her resolute self, on the self that had been hardened, coarsened, by the life which she had led. "Ibrahim, do you know where Baroudi is what he has been doing all this time?" she asked. "What he has bin doin' I dunno, my lady.
Brandon went into his study. Hogg was standing beside the window, a faded bowler in his hand. He turned when he heard the opening of the door; he presented to the Archdeacon a face of smiling and genial, if coarsened, amiability. He was wearing rough country clothes, brown knickerbockers and gaiters, and looked something like a stout and seedy gamekeeper fond of the bottle.
She turned half in her seat as though she expected to see Aunt Anne and Aunt Elizabeth sitting one on either side of her. She looked at Thurston; he had coarsened very much since she had seen him last. He was fatter, his cheeks stained with an unnaturally high colour, his eyes brighter and sharper and yet sensual too.
He is a genius, but he is no oddity: he falls quite naturally into his place as the master of the early decadence; he is the man in whom runs rich and fast but a little coarsened the stream of inspiration that gave life to archaic Greek sculpture.
The gossamer shades of sensibility which she would have defined, threatened to become coarsened by the mere specific gravity of words such words as have been knocked about the world so long that a sort of material odor clings to them. "Jealous of Miss Grace!" exclaimed Abbott reprovingly. "Let's go back, and take a running jump right into the thick of it. When Mr.
He could scarcely articulate the words 'Mr Farll. But when they were out of his mouth he felt that the deed was somehow definitely done. The doctor gazed at Priam's hands, the rough, coarsened hands of a painter who is always messing in oils and dust. "Pardon me," said the doctor. "I presume you are his valet or " "Yes," said Priam Farll. That set the seal.
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