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Barton began better called Carlton chancel child Church Cimiez Cliff's End conscious cousin dear divine door dreams dress exclaimed eyes face fact fancy feel felt girl give gramo hand happened hear heard heart hope Hugo kind knew Lady Conway Lady Susannah laugh light listen look Lord Cotswold Lucretius luncheon Market Harborough marriage matter mean meanwhile ment mind Miss Arundel Miss Enid Wynn Miss Vivian Miss Wynn morning nature Nest never Nina once Oswald person present prie-dieu priest psychology replied sacraments seemed seen Sir Rawlin Stantor smile soon soul Southquay speak spirit spoke suppose sure talk tell there's things Thistle Thistlewood thought tion to-morrow told touched Turkish Castle turned uncon vivisect voice Voiron wait watch wish woman words young lady
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Page 195 - Heaven, and before you, my father, that I have sinned exceedingly in thought, word, and deed, through my fault, through my own fault, through my own most grievous fault.
Page 22 - Well we're off, little girl. . . . Behold thou art fair my love, thou art fair, thou hast dove's eyes within thy locks.
Page 70 - Colonel O'Brian, her father." In Mr. Carlton, Lady Susannah's elderly cousin, 'Mallock mocks the expression of feelings somewhat akin to his own ; his humor spares not even his own class. Mr. Carleton went on to observe delicately, in a tone of shocked distress, that he had always thought Radicalism so dreadfully insincere and selfish. "Why...
Page 193 - ... oneself, of a strength to realize the true end of one's existence. As human beings we are made up of body and soul. The I, the self, the soul, is simple, indivisible, and indestructible. Natural man, unaided, is his own house of torment from which there is no escape. The object of Church sacraments is "to redeem and revivify the human will, which is the master of the intellect and the affections, that it shall operate in accordance with the will of the Divine Man, our Saviour.
Page 142 - God — analogies in itself by which the world of the spirit is illuminated. Such science, for example, tells us this — that there is no desire implanted in any living creature which does not indicate the existence somewhere of that wherewithal it shall be satisfied. Thus, for bodies numbed with cold there is the warmth of sun and fire. For tired muscles and heavy eyes there is sleep. In the hunger of a lamb is a witness to the growing of the green pastures.
Page 14 - of all watering-places in Britain, and perhaps in Europe, the most remarkable for the charm of its situation, and at one time for its social brilliance." Mallock loves to dwell on views of the sea, its "bloom and glitter" and "the light-hearted sparkle of the foam where the brine was whispering to the rocks.
Page 13 - ... accoutrements and strange condition of immaculateness for hockey, played in however ladylike a fashion. The pair apparently stand on one foot till the mist clears, a circumstance which Mallock takes as a lame excuse to drag in one of his pet aversions among ideas. Nest is speaking : "My cousin, Mr. Hugo, who's a man of science, or a boy of science, or a baby of science, says that the world was all made out of vapor. You might think he was right now. Bush after bush, tree after tree, is being...
Page 172 - The power of exciting the love of even an experienced man. . .may exist in a young girl as well as in the most accomplished woman. The reason is that what a man loves in a woman is no one of the qualities which he would value in a mere human being, as such — intellect, sound judgment, knowledge, or even complete respectability. . .What he loves in a woman is a something forever outside himself — the mystery of all the horizons, the mystery of the Feminine in the universe.
Page 225 - ... seems about to faint; then suddenly her face lights up with affection. She resumes her love scene with Sir Rawlin, but Mr. Barton is so overwhelmed with confusion that he ascribes her inconsistencies to her portracted sleep, and accepts her declarations as meant for himself. He goes away in a daze. "He was like a man who had died and come to life again." 7 "Of priestly celibacy he had hitherto been an earnest though not a bigoted advocate. From his brethren and his former opinions he would now...
Page 113 - Anyhow, he committed that one sin for which there is no forgiveness in this world or the next.