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| ... of us in her clutch. On the other hand, I was disturbed to hear about Miss Penclosa's illness. It rather discounts the victory which I appeared to win last night. I remember that she said that loss of health interfered with her power. That may be why I was able ... |
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| ... an elder man. It is so difficult--so awfully unfair--so hard to understand." `The mists were closing again. I know how old I appeared to him--and how much wise. Not half as old as I felt just then; not half as uselessly wise as I knew myself to ... |
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| ... in which he and his wife conversed together, I was unwittingly the occasion of very great uneasiness. I know why or wherefore, but I appeared to run in his mind perpetually, and to dissatisfy him very much. First of all I heard him say: and the most ludicrous part of ... |
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| ... one merit about him (due no doubt to his worldly training) which I have no wish to deny. He was quick at seeing things. I appeared to produce almost the same impression on him which I had produced on the cabman. HE too uttered a profane expression, and withdrew in ... |
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| ... afterwards passed into my heart. The most noble pride there took root amongst the ruins of extirpated vanity. I affected nothing; I became what I appeared to be, and during four years at least, whilst this effervescence continued at its greatest height, there is nothing great and good that can ... |
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| ... were broader than I imagined, and it seemed an age before I reached the edge of the Grove. The world was so still that I appeared to be making a most ghastly amount of noise. I remember that once I heard a rustling in the air, and looked up to ... |
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| ... father to explain himself. He turned to my brother, to ask if he had not told me the whole story. My brother answered, that I appeared to him so tranquil upon the road, that he did not suppose I required this remedy to cure me of my folly. I remarked ... |
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| ... the table Ransome with, a duster in, his, hand stared open mouthed I think that-I. looked wild It is quite possible that. I appeared to be in a hurry because I was instinctively hastening up on deck An example- this of training become. instinct The difficulties the dangers the- ... |
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| ... bell, and the doleful supplications of a priest followed by a crowd of idle men and women. He was begging, "for the sake of the Holy Virgin," alms to say masses for the soul of an unfortunate, who had not left a peso for his burial. He droned on, and ... |
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| ... give a man the woman that he wanted. But love, LOVE, my good Paul, is a faith like that in the Immaculate conception of the Holy Virgin; it comes, or it does not come. Will the mines of Potosi, or the shedding of our blood, or the making of our ... |
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| ... of them.Pray, then, father, do teach me one of the easiest of them." "They are all easy," he replied, "for example- 'Saluting the Holy Virgin when you happen to meet her image- saying the little chaplet of the pleasures of the Virgin- fervently pronouncing the name of Mary- commissioning ... |




