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Page 25
... feeling very hopeless , and with a dogged grimness . " Just now , my young cousin , I feel as if I should not mind ... feeling of dreariness and disappoint- ment that had come over me , the sudden feeling that I was going not to ...
... feeling very hopeless , and with a dogged grimness . " Just now , my young cousin , I feel as if I should not mind ... feeling of dreariness and disappoint- ment that had come over me , the sudden feeling that I was going not to ...
Page 36
... feeling of loneliness , that I had sought out Barnes in the dim immensity of the steer- age . In the square of wan light that came down the scuttle he was cording his hair - trunk — unemotional and very matter - of - fact . He began to ...
... feeling of loneliness , that I had sought out Barnes in the dim immensity of the steer- age . In the square of wan light that came down the scuttle he was cording his hair - trunk — unemotional and very matter - of - fact . He began to ...
Page 78
... I seemed to have known her for years . A rush of strange , sweet feeling made me dumb . She was looking at me , her lips set , her eyes wide and still ; and suddenly she said : 66 Ask nothing . The land is not far yet 78 ROMANCE.
... I seemed to have known her for years . A rush of strange , sweet feeling made me dumb . She was looking at me , her lips set , her eyes wide and still ; and suddenly she said : 66 Ask nothing . The land is not far yet 78 ROMANCE.
Page 125
... feeling of absolute absorption into one idea , I was ravaged by a thought . It was as if I had never before imagined , heard spoken of , or seen a woman . It was true . She was a revelation to my eye and my ear , as much as to my heart ...
... feeling of absolute absorption into one idea , I was ravaged by a thought . It was as if I had never before imagined , heard spoken of , or seen a woman . It was true . She was a revelation to my eye and my ear , as much as to my heart ...
Page 126
... feeling of the abyss under our feet was our bond , not the real comprehension of each other . Apart from that , she remained to me always unattainable and ro- mantic — unique , with all the unexpressed promises of love such as no world ...
... feeling of the abyss under our feet was our bond , not the real comprehension of each other . Apart from that , she remained to me always unattainable and ro- mantic — unique , with all the unexpressed promises of love such as no world ...
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Page 41 - Here's the mahn ye were speerin' after. Here's Macdonald." It was the voice of Barnes, and the voice of the every day. I discovered that I had been tremendously upset. The pulses in my temples were throbbing, and I wanted to shut my eyes — to sleep! I was tired; Romance had departed. Barnes and the Macdonald he had found for me represented all the laborious insects of the world; all the ants who are forever hauling immensely heavy and immensely unimportant burdens up weary hillocks, down steep...