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Unless the shining bauble Uncas has just lifted from the ground should prove one.

In the division of the baubles the cunning Huron discovered no less art than in their selection.

My fool's cap was a casque, and my bauble a truncheon.

The smallest, the most fragrant blossoms bedecked the girls.

The appearance of the Knight Templar was also changed; and, though less studiously bedecked with ornament, his dress was as rich, and his appearance far more commanding, than that of his companion.

At first the young man appeared about to befriend me.

Franz is not expected to return home for a year to come, I am told; in that time many favorable and unforeseen chances may befriend us.

But no such recollection befriended her.

She had insisted that in the belated quest of these work-stained women was an aspiration which ought to stir her tears.

Holmes made no further allusion to the matter that day, though he sat lost in thought for a long time after our belated dinner.

But at this point one or two belated passengers from the last station forced their way into the carriage, and Lily had to retreat to her seat.

Therein you belie the natur of an Indian.

However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen served to belie the apparently cheerless prospect before us.

An hour later when the conversation began to lag, Gerald, with a guile that belied the wide innocence of his bright blue eyes, proposed a game.

He was my benefactor, and all my desire was to carry out his wishes in every particular.

Unfortunately, the negotiation failed, and when he returned to defend his benefactor, he was dead.

I therefore told him my small story, and laid stress on my being forbidden to inquire who my benefactor was.

I was encompassed by a cloud which no beneficial influence could penetrate.

In the first place, he must make such an agreement for tithes as may be beneficial to himself and not offensive to his patron.

They poured a little rum down his throat, and this remedy which had before been so beneficial to him, produced the same effect as formerly.

The Doctor nodded his benevolent head.

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.

Their benevolent disposition often made them enter the cottages of the poor.

I longed to be his; I panted to return: it was not too late; I could yet spare him the bitter pang of bereavement.

It was a great augmentation of my uneasiness to be bereaved, at this eventful crisis, of the inestimable services of Miss Mills.

He was decorously clad in black, his linen frilly and starched, and his manner was all that custom demanded from an old friend paying a call of sympathy on one bereaved.

I wonder whether those jolly lads bethink them of what they are dancing over.

They seemed suddenly to bethink themselves of their weapons, and at once commenced firing.

But, bethinking himself that this would not help matters, he stopped short in the middle of a sentence, and merely sighed.

Whatever betides, whatever new ties you may form, whatever changes may come between us, I shall always look to you, and love you, as I do now, and have always done.

But the girl did not care for the man as a girl ought to care for her betrothed husband.

When the prince and the princess had gone, Levin went up to his betrothed and took her hand.

His first betrothed heard of this, and fretted so much about his faithfulness that she nearly died.

In addition, bevies of belles from the country districts, where all remaining men were under sixteen or over sixty, descended upon the town.

"That's a fine bevy, Ma'm," said Gerald gallantly, reining his horse alongside the carriage.

They were gentle, quiet spoken, reserved people and not given to even the amiable bickering that characterized most Atlanta families.

He was polite and disinterested and she missed his interest, perverse though it had been, missed the old days of bickering and retort.

Forgetful of the store and the mills, she spent her time on the lot, arguing with carpenters, bickering with masons, harrying the contractor.

Colours and beauties so far subdued were, at least, the birthright of all.

Evidently, I thought, this tendency had increased till Industry had gradually lost its birthright in the sky.

A few slight indications of a rather petted and capricious manner, which I observed in the Beauty, were manifestly considered, by Traddles and his wife, as her birthright and natural endowment.

It was quite open to the heath on each side, and bisected that vast dark surface like the parting-line on a head of black hair, diminishing and bending away on the furthest horizon.

Replacing the fences the Yankees had so blithely burned was a long hard task.

She wondered how he could jest so blithely with a rope about his neck and her pitiful circumstances before him.

There was a long pause, while a blackbird sung blithely on the willow by the river, and the tall grass rustled in the wind.

The wind began to get boisterous.

There are boisterous couples, who tear wildly about the room, knocking every one out of their way.

It was one of those not infrequent days of an English June which are as wet and boisterous as November.

The bed had a spring mattress, and a special sort of bolster and silk pillowcases on the little pillows.

In Ashley and his love lay strength upon which to lay her weakness, courage to bolster her fear, ease for her sorrow.

Sitting on her three-cornered chair she swayed, with her dark pigtails hanging, and her body like a bolster in its faded dressing-gown.

He found that he could look back upon the brass and bombast of his earlier gospels and see them truly.

Sometimes, he was a very comfortable person to live with, for all his unfortunate habit of not permitting anyone in his presence to act a lie, palm off a pretense or indulge in bombast.

He felt the subtle battle brotherhood more potent even than the cause for which they were fighting.

It had stupefied all blessed impulses, and awakened into vivid life the whole brotherhood of bad ones.

Though I do stick firmly to the belief in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man and the leadership of Jesus.

I think I was glad to know it; I think I was glad to have my better impulses thus buttressed and guarded by the terrors of the scaffold.

The access to the upper apartments in the tower which consist in all of four stories, is given by stairs which are carried up through the external buttresses.

He gave up his life for her, and she was callous to him.

She was callous, cold and callous to all that he did for her.

She did not know why this should be, for he was such an unpredictable, callous person.

Indeed, its snow-white muzzle proclaimed that it had already exceeded the usual term of canine existence.

It cost some exercise of the white truncheon, well seconded by the exertions of the domestics, to silence this canine clamour.

She knew that characteristic in her husband, and liked it.

Mystery and secrecy have long been his principal characteristic, have long replaced unlimited confidence.

It was a characteristic feature in this repentance, that I was fain to ask what these two men had done, to be there at all.

This is the way in which you Northerns understand chemistry, madame.

Waldman, a fellow professor, would lecture upon chemistry the alternate days that he omitted.

He began to experiment, and got a clever young fellow, who had proved brilliant in chemistry, to help him.

Every circumstance belonging to him was interesting.

Another circumstance strengthened and confirmed these feelings.

The life of my father is in the greatest danger, owing to the dreadful circumstance that I have related.

Rhett lacked the courage to cite these reasons for employing another nurse.

Grant it, since you cite it; but, say what you will, there is no real dignity in whaling.

You mistake, Fernand; it is not a law, but merely a custom, and, I pray of you, do not cite this custom in your favor.

You are old, unsavoury, and very meanly clad.

But little Pearl was not clad in rustic weeds.

I felt ashamed to appear before my benefactors so clad.

Now the beset him and made clamor.

The forest still bore its burden of clamor.

For a moment, in the great clamor, he was like a proverbial chicken.

He gave the word; and still gazing round him, was steadily lowered through the cloven blue air to the deck.

They are for the use of horses, but they are shaped below with a cloven foot of iron, so as to throw pursuers off the track.

Before him rose a grotesque mass of rocks, that resembled nothing so much as a vast fire petrified at the moment of its most fervent combustion.

And when the wind was that way, which was often, the house was full of the stench of this sulphurous combustion of the earth's excrement.

This was the commencement of a nervous fever which confined me for several months.

The first time she left her chamber was at the commencement of the following March.

I found several letters, and, among others, one which I discovered from its commencement to be from your father.

Now, for a week, he was commissioner general of Gopher Prairie.

We hope to have, before long, a board of fact, composed of commissioners of fact, who will force the people to be a people of fact, and of nothing but fact.

Why, Ashley Wilkes and his father told Pa just last week that our commissioners in Washington would come to--to--an--amicable agreement with Mr. Lincoln about the Confederacy.

I felt as if I had committed some great crime, the consciousness of which haunted me.

He was committed to take his trial at the next Sessions, which would come on in a month.

A highly popular murder had been committed, and Mr. Wopsle was imbrued in blood to the eyebrows.

Nor are the most conscientious compilations of Natural History for the benefit of the young and tender, free from the same heinousness of mistake.

'I am not a bad compiler, Copperfield,' said Traddles, preserving the same air of cheerful confidence in all he said, 'but I have no invention at all; not a particle.'

What I have to do as the confidential agent of another, I do.

With nobody present, but our dear and confidential friend Mr. Wickfield, I cannot consent to be put down.

We are in our private and personal capacities, and we have been engaged in a confidential transaction before to-day.

It was the day of confirmation.

One of the men nodded in confirmation.

But she knew she looked pretty even before she saw confirmation in his eyes.

The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds.

She made a great point of being so near the river, in case of a conflagration; and I suppose really did find some satisfaction in that circumstance.

Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night.

She is conscientious, and I have no fear of her treating him unkindly.

Mrs. Peniston, who was a conscientious woman, had forwarded them all to Bellomont.

Well, I have not intercepted your confidence, and yet I know all that as well as you, and I have no conscientious scruples.

I felt as if I had committed some great crime, the consciousness of which haunted me.

I fancied that I could detect in his manner a consciousness of this, and a purpose of always holding her in suspense.

As soon, however, as the consciousness of all this was forced by continual repetition on Marianne, she could stay no longer.

Next morning, consequently, we were on the Yarmouth coach, and again travelling over the old ground.

Mrs. Gummidge appeared to be fretting a little, in her old corner; and consequently looked quite natural, too.

She thought he had ceased to love her, she felt close upon despair, and consequently she felt exceptionally alert.

This address caused a considerable change in the physiognomy of my own auditor.

We resided principally in the latter, and the lives of my parents were passed in considerable seclusion.

It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being; all the events of that period appear confused and indistinct.

Consistency, my dear Mr. Brocklehurst; I advocate consistency in all things.

Still, for all this immutableness, was there some lack of common consistency about worthy Captain Peleg.

The greatest degree of rational consistency could not have been more engaging, and they talked with mutual satisfaction.

It was soothing, it was consolidating, this handwork together.

After the battle of Navarino, when the Greek government was consolidated, he asked of King Otho a mining grant for that district, which was given him.

She wore a muslin dress, conspicuously white, and a stiff little veil coming to her shoulders.

This puerile feature in a nature which was conspicuously manly had often given rise to comment and conjecture.

Before another month was by, all the working members of his family had union cards, and wore their union buttons conspicuously and with pride.

Her ladyship lapsed into contemplative silence, soothed by the brandy.

For to-day he felt that he had earned opportunities for contemplative repose.

But here he was interrupted by his fair physician, a smile which she could scarce suppress dimpling for an instant a face, whose general expression was that of contemplative melancholy.

At this moment hope makes me despise their riches, which seem to me contemptible.

I cannot be made unhappy by the fact that a contemptible woman has committed a crime.

However, the king treated him with tenderness, as a well-meaning man, but of a low contemptible understanding.

There was a thin, crisp, continuous patter from somewhere in the heart of that crawling bank.

And, as her love for Scarlett and her pride in her were enormous, the chastening process was practically continuous.

There was desperate fighting at New Hope Church, eleven days of continuous fighting, with every Yankee assault bloodily repulsed.

Now Mr. Davis had declared limes a contraband article, and solemnly vowed to publicly ferrule the first person who was found breaking the law.

He had scarcely been a week at Leghorn before the hold of his vessel was filled with printed muslins, contraband cottons, English powder, and tobacco on which the excise had forgotten to put its mark.

I assure you I have no desire to be controversial.

But of all their controversies, none was so bitter as the one that took place over the windmill.

I have had controversies about it with experienced whalemen afloat, and learned naturalists ashore.

She is tolerably convalescent.

But there were a few irreverent snickers from convalescent officers when Rhett spoke of bravery.

The young ladies of the town, who were not permitted to nurse for fear they would see sights unfit for virgin eyes, had the convalescent wards in their charge.

They were not welcomed home very cordially by their mother.

He received us cordially, and made friends with Mr. Dick in a moment.

Vronsky got up and, looking cordially at Levin, shook hands with him.

When first he entered the corps, she was ready enough to admire him; but so we all were.

Then farm wagons, ox carts and even private carriages commandeered by the medical corps.

Vronsky and he had gone completely different ways on leaving the corps, and had only met once since.