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Page 119
... soul too much troubled with the affairs of this world . " He sighed , nodded to me with a friendly , sad smile , and began mutter his prayers as he went . D CHAPTER II ON BALTHASAR accepted my presence without a PART THIRD 119.
... soul too much troubled with the affairs of this world . " He sighed , nodded to me with a friendly , sad smile , and began mutter his prayers as he went . D CHAPTER II ON BALTHASAR accepted my presence without a PART THIRD 119.
Page 137
... soul . " " Be quiet ! " There was a Their hissing ascended along the wall from under the window . The two Lugarenos had stolen in unnoticed by me . stifled metallic ringing , as of a guitar carried under a cloak . " Vengeance on the ...
... soul . " " Be quiet ! " There was a Their hissing ascended along the wall from under the window . The two Lugarenos had stolen in unnoticed by me . stifled metallic ringing , as of a guitar carried under a cloak . " Vengeance on the ...
Page 139
... souls . And what if her feminine rashness — women are rash , my son , " he interjected with unction— " and her pride were to lead her into —I am horrified at the thought — into an act of mortal sin for which there is no repentance ...
... souls . And what if her feminine rashness — women are rash , my son , " he interjected with unction— " and her pride were to lead her into —I am horrified at the thought — into an act of mortal sin for which there is no repentance ...
Page 140
... souls . It is a solemn time when death approaches . The affairs of this world should be cast aside . And yet God surely does not mean us to abandon the living to the mercy of the wicked . " A sadness came upon his face , his eyes ; all ...
... souls . It is a solemn time when death approaches . The affairs of this world should be cast aside . And yet God surely does not mean us to abandon the living to the mercy of the wicked . " A sadness came upon his face , his eyes ; all ...
Page 142
... soul ; and with a sort of simple and sacerdotal shrewdness , in which there was much love for his most noble ... souls . 142 ROMANCE.
... soul ; and with a sort of simple and sacerdotal shrewdness , in which there was much love for his most noble ... souls . 142 ROMANCE.
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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...