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This pent atmosphere has overcome him,' said Mr. Waring, "he's unused to it" And turned Paul, to lead him into the open air. He looked at him once more, as if to ask what he was doing, and then...
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Scarcely considering whither he was going, he was in an instant before the folding doors of the hall. Coming out of the quiet and the dim light, the flare of the lamps, the whirl and con- fused...
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Esther came bounding towards Paul with a step as light as if she needed only the air to tread on. " Rouse you, ye dreamer," said she, playfully jogging him, — "we are late. Look up, and vow to me that...
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So fully had such thoughts absorbed Paul's mind, that when, upon entering the room, he met Esther and her father, he started, as if the sight of flesh and blood were strange to him. At dinner he seemed...
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Glad at being in company, the boy sat down upon the grass, and went on with his story. — " I crawled home as well as I could, and went to bed. When I was falling asleep I had the same feeling I had...
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He took a path which led through the fields back of his house, and wound amongst the steep rocks part way up the range of high hills, till it attached a small locust grove, where it ended. He began...
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There was a smart rap at the door, and in came in full spirits Frank Ridgley. Esther, who was surprised and sincerely glad to see him, showed it in her benevolent countenance. His manner was a little...
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There is a tenderness and delicacy about a serious man, at times, the beauty of which affects us even more than when we see them in a woman. This is partly from the contrast. They are in agreement with...
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As he went along, his eye past swiftly from one object to another, seeking something to rest upon, which might fix his hurrying and dis- ordered thoughts. So fully had the notion possessed him that he...
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— From his intellect And from the stillness of abstracted thought He asked repose. And fears, and fancies, thick upon me came Dim sadness, and blind thoughts I knew not nor could name. Who thinks, and...
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