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Page 273 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Page 186 - But my life isn't for you to give to others, and your life is mine, and I think I have some right to say what shall be done with it, and I don't choose to have used it up on old Hilbrook.
Page 354 - They went to live abroad after they were married ; and by and by Tedham joined them. So far now as human vision can perceive, the trouble he made, the evil he did, is really at an end. Love, which can alone arrest the consequences of wrong, had ended it, and in certain luminous moments it seemed to us that we had glimpsed, in our witness of this experience, an infinite compassion encompassing our whole being like a sea, where every trouble of our sins and sorrows must cease at last like a circle...
Page 238 - We hadn't gone around to it, quite." "Oh, do!" Langbourne entreated, and he wondered that he had not asked her before; it would have saved them from each other. "Wait a moment...
Page 124 - I will go and get it for her," said the ex-master of ceremonies. " Do," said Miss Desmond. ' ' No, no, " Gaites protested. ' ' I brought Miss Axewright, and I have the first claim to bring her fiddle." " I'm afraid you couldn't either of you find it," Miss Axewright began. " We'll both try," said the ex-master of ceremonies. "Where do you think it is?" "Well, it's in the case on the piano." "That doesn't sound very intricate," said Gaites, and they all laughed. As soon as the two men were out of...
Page 204 - 'more conscientious than the worst kind of Congregationalist,' " she urges him to consider " 'your duty to yourself — and to me — and to people who can know how to profit by your teaching and your example, not to give way as you're doing, simply because a worn-out old agnostic couldn't keep his hold on the truth'
Page 204 - I don't blame you," said her husband. " I blame myself." " And you see that that's the same thing ! You ought to thank me for saving your life ; for it was just as if you were pouring your heart's blood into him, and I could see you getting more anaemic every day. Even now you're not half as well as when you got home ! And yet I do believe that if you could bring old Hilbrook back into a world that he was sick and tired of, you'd give your own life to do it.
Page 103 - I can't bear to think of that child's suspense. It's perfectly heart - sickening. Why shouldn't they telegraph? They ought to telegraph! If they let things go wandering round the earth at this rate, the least they can do is to telegraph and relieve people's minds. We'll go and make the station-master telegraph !" But even when the station-master was found, and made to understand the case, and to feel its hardship, he had his scruples. "I don't think I've got any right to do that,
Page 104 - The engineer put a silkcapped head out of the cab window and looked back at the station-master, who began to work his arms like a semaphore telegraph. Then the locomotive tooted, the bell rang, and the freight-train ran forward on the switch to the main track, and commenced backing down to where they stood. Evidently it was going to pick up the car with Phyllis Desmond's piano in it. "When does this freight go out?" Gaites palpitated. " 'Bout ten minutes,
Page 118 - ... long legs did not render him guilty of the opposite offence. Miss Desmond must have had other qualities and characteristics, but in his absorption with Miss Axewright's he did not notice them. He saw again the pretty, pathetic face, the gentle brown eyes, the ordinary brown hair, the sentient hands, the slight, graceful figure, the whole undistinguished, unpretentious presence, which had taken his fancy at Boston, and which he now perceived had kept it, under whatever erring impressions, ever...