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Atlanta was again the center of activities for a wide region, as it had been before its destruction, and the town was receiving a great influx of new citizens, both welcome and unwelcome.

And though he liked them all, he rather regretted his own Levin world and ways, which was smothered by this influx of the "Shtcherbatsky element," as he called it to himself.

I believed in her innocence; I knew it.

I will proclaim, I will prove your innocence.

I had been waiting for him to see me that I might try to assure him of my innocence.

At this inquiry she sat up and opened her eyes.

She needed no time for deliberation or inquiry.

He repeated the inquiry with yet greater eagerness.

And he began to enlarge on his encounters with the new institutions.

He understood human institutions, and blew them about like soap bubbles.

The school, thus improved, became in time a truly useful and noble institution.

The intellect of Roger Chillingworth had now a sufficiently plain path before it.

It has gradually augmented, until it assumes the appearance of aberration of intellect.

There was the same candour, the same vivacity, but it was allied to an expression more full of sensibility and intellect.

On hearing it, he felt come upon him with tenfold intensity that strange feeling of loathing of someone.

Never afterwards did he feel it with such intensity, but this first time he could not for a long while get over it.

Levin was in a continual state of awkwardness and discomfort, but the intensity of his happiness went on all the while increasing.

She looked at her father to entreat his interference, lest Mary should be singing all night.

But he had given a reason for his interference, which asked no extraordinary stretch of belief.

I told him of all that had occurred to make my former interference in his affairs absurd and impertinent.

She thought of the long walk back to the house and it seemed interminable.

It was as though all the weariness of the past months had culminated in the vacuity of that interminable evening.

Most of it went to Tara and she wrote interminable letters to Will Benteen telling him just how it should be spent.

The sun shone intermittently the next morning and the hard wind that drove dark clouds swiftly across its face rattled the windowpanes and moaned faintly about the house.

Hitherto her intermittent impulses of resistance had sufficed to maintain her self-respect.

The man was an intermittent drunkard, and when he had the fit on him he was a perfect fiend.

Whatever she did she knew would be observed by her husband, and the worst interpretation put on it.

The critic had undoubtedly put an interpretation upon the book which could not possibly be put on it.

However novel and peculiar this testimony of attachment, I did not doubt the accuracy of the interpretation.

The interval between that time and supper Wemmick devoted to showing me his collection of curiosities.

The soldiers were in front of us, extending into a pretty wide line with an interval between man and man.

After an interval I arose, and as if by instinct, crawled into the room where the corpse of my beloved lay.

Formerly they believed themselves sprung from Jupiter, and shielded by their birth; but nowadays they are not inviolable.

I know that her word is inviolate.

He wanted this place inviolate, shut off from the world.

Mr. Mell having left me while he took his irreparable boots upstairs, I went softly to the upper end of the room, observing all this as I crept along.

I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance.

If, at a moment when her whole life seemed to be breaking up, she could cheerfully commit its reconstruction to the Gormers, there was no reason why such accidents should ever strike her as irreparable.

The conversation dropped at the jest.

Satan dropped it there, I take it, intending a scurrilous jest against your reverence.

Directly Sergey Ivanovitch had concluded the conversation with his jest, Pestsov promptly started a new one.

There was an old hair trunk in one corner, and a guitar-box in another, and all sorts of little knickknacks and jimcracks around, like girls brisken up a room with.

He could tell her nothing new of the wonders of his presentation and knighthood; and his civilities were worn out, like his information.

Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty.

She was cynical about the joys of a simple laborious life.

That the life I had since led was laborious enough to kill an animal of ten times my strength.

I had worked two chairs with my knife, the sorrel nag helping me in the grosser and more laborious part.

Go with you to the funeral, she said laboriously.

Slowly, laboriously, she heaved herself over and pulled her heavy skirts up to her thighs.

No, it is not existence, then, that I regret, but the ruin of projects so slowly carried out, so laboriously framed.

That he would be leniently treated, I could not hope.

When Mr. Roach heard his name he smiled quite leniently.

It matters little now, except as it may dispose you to think more leniently of his errors.

It was the consciousness of a new sphere of liability to pain.

The state-owned railroad had once been an asset to the state but now it was a liability and its debts had piled up to the million mark.

Queequeg was my own inseparable twin brother; nor could I any way get rid of the dangerous liabilities which the hempen bond entailed.

It was as though a cold air had dispersed the fumes of his libations, and the situation loomed before him black and naked as the ruins of a fire.

Trenor, looking stouter than ever in his tight frock-coat, and unbecomingly flushed by the bridal libations, gazed at her with undisguised approval.

All the blame of this should have fallen upon Jo, for her naughty imitation had been too lifelike to escape detection, and the frolicsome Lambs had permitted the joke to escape.

Before half the day they were lifelong friends.

His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength.

This new honor came to her after an exciting joint meeting of those societies which threatened to end in violence and the severance of lifelong ties of friendship.

It was a night of joy and terror, such as this man of stupendous emotions had already experienced twice or thrice in his lifetime.

Some day it was coming: it might not be soon, it might not be with in the lifetime of any animal now living, but still it was coming.

It was a profitable trade, and I found that by that time I had made enough to take the dairy of fifty cows that my father had in his lifetime.

But she could not have seen his face if a flash of lightning had not hidden the stars and revealed it.

During this short voyage I saw the lightning playing on the summit of Mont Blanc in the most beautiful figures.

And that night there came on a terrific storm, with driving rain, awful claps of thunder and blinding sheets of lightning.

In all likelihood, though, I should die before morning.

It now occurred to the girls that their mother was in all likelihood perfectly ignorant of what had happened.

In that case, so liable as every body was to meet every body in Bath, Lady Russell would in all likelihood see him somewhere.

The police have really done nothing locally, save the arrest of these gipsies.

I knew this meant, in our local dialect, like two young thrushes, and received it as a compliment.

The influence of my family being local, it is their wish that Mr. Micawber should go down to Plymouth.

The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.

I could not help feeling, though she mingled her tears with mine, that she had a dreadful luxury in our afflictions.

He was as radiant, as if his chair, his asthma, and the failure of his limbs, were the various branches of a great invention for enhancing the luxury of a pipe.

I never saw more simple tastes united to greater magnificence.

Yet let not modern beauty envy the magnificence of a Saxon princess.

The wedding was held with great magnificence and small joy, and out of a tailor a king was made.

Lily was duly impressed by the magnitude of her opportunities.

So that this rib only conveyed half of the true notion of the living magnitude of that part.

Gases are generated in him; he swells to a prodigious magnitude; becomes a sort of animal balloon.

The fund was, of course, for the propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their maintenance.

He would send for the baby; though I entreated him rather to put it out to nurse and pay for its maintenance.

There is already lodged in my hands a sum of money amply sufficient for your suitable education and maintenance.

From behind one pillar I could peep round quietly at the full front of the mansion.

Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay.

An old red-brick mansion, used as a school, was in its place; and a fine old house it must have been to go to school at, as I recollect it.

In fact, a martyr to his family.

Amy spoke bitterly, and turned her back on the exasperating martyr at her feet.

You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater.

But those few moonlight nights alone with Charles had not touched her emotions or ripened her to maturity.

She knew that she should kill one of the shoats but she put it off from day to day, hoping to raise them to maturity.

These girls who had come to maturity since the surrender had only childish memories of the war and lacked the bitterness that animated their elders.

Don't you be a meddlesome wench an poke your nose where it's no cause to go.

He wanted to see him, to report on the result of his mediation, which had occupied and amused him for the last three days.

I perceived he was bent on refusing my mediation, so very reluctantly I went up to the library, and announced the unseasonable visitor, advising that he should be dismissed till next day.

Elinor remembered what Robert had told her in Harley Street, of his opinion of what his own mediation in his brother's affairs might have done, if applied to in time.

It appeared to contain medical preparations, one of which he mingled with a cup of water.

Skilful men, of the medical and chirurgical profession, were of rare occurrence in the colony.

The gold will be melted and the stones sold and the money used to buy drugs and other medical supplies.

Vronsky was himself the same, and regarded it as a great merit to be so.

There was no other merit in this, than my having sense enough to feel my deficiencies.

I may claim the merit of having originated the suggestion that the will should be looked for in the box.

I was very merry, I know; but it was hollow merriment.

Tell on, please, he said, taking his face out of the sofa cushion, red and shining with merriment.

From beneath their broad-brimmed hats of palm-leaf, gleamed eyes which, even in good-nature and merriment, had a kind of animal ferocity.

I was touched by his gentle tone, and overawed by his high, calm mien.

The words were barely uttered, when he encountered a savage of gigantic stature, of the fiercest mien.

The young Mohican cast a glance at his father, but, maintaining his quiet and reserved mien, he continued silent.

The miser began to tell his tale, and said he had been robbed of his money.

Then the countryman stopped his fiddle, and left the miser to take his place at the gallows.

At my behest the miser leaves his hoard untouched; at peace the mother sees her children play.

The Bank offered no violence to the wholesome monotony of the town.

Clym and Eustacia, in their little house at Alderworth, beyond East Egdon, were living on with a monotony which was delightful to them.

She began calling for Ashley, over and over, as if in a delirium until the hideous monotony gave Scarlett a fierce desire to smother her voice with a pillow.

The soft, earnest, quiet moonbeam looks in fixedly, marking the bars of the grated windows on the prostrate, sleeping forms.

No veiled future dimly glanced upon him in the moonbeams.

The house was encrusted with heavy thatchings, which dropped between the upper windows; the front, upon which the moonbeams directly played, had originally been white; but a huge pyracanth now darkened the greater portion.

A woman had no business even knowing what a mortgage was.

Scarlett was going to Atlanta to borrow money or to mortgage Tara if necessary.

Stowbody and Dawson foreclose every mortgage they can, and put in tenant farmers.

The doctor had answered and then had said something about the irregularities in the municipal council.

She did not, she said, want charity for them, but a chance of self-help; an employment bureau, direction in washing babies and making pleasing stews, possibly a municipal fund for home-building.

state and municipality in which said rejected or condemned.

My narrative proceeds to Agnes, with a thankful love.

He then told me that he would commence his narrative the next day when I should be at leisure.

And I told him what I had not mentioned in my narrative, of that encounter with the other convict.

I laid down my pen, and Biddy stopped in her needlework without laying it down.

Yes; odds and ends, needlework, crotchet-work, embroidery, and that kind of thing.

She set up a great tambour frame in her room, and began to work on an enormous piece of fine needlework.

She spoke with amazing nonchalance.

He sat opposite to me, and lit a cigarette in his old, nonchalant manner.

Never at any time, even in most intimate moments, had he been other than nonchalant.

Mr. Peggotty went occasionally to a public-house called The Willing Mind.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

We were very much together, I need not say; but occasionally we were asunder for some hours at a time.

They occupy the place of years in my remembrance.

I hope it may be easier here to find something which will busy me and occupy my thoughts.

I could only think of the bourne of my travels and the work which was to occupy me whilst they endured.

This ball had an acrid and penetrating odor.

An odor of onions and the smoke of hot lard.

There was a half-empty bottle of whisky on the table by the bed and the room reeked with the odor.

My look or something else must have struck her as offensive, for she spoke with extreme though suppressed irritation.

After the latter the animal was ready to burst, and made so violent a discharge as was very offensive to me and my companion.

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

She ogled Isabella now, conferring youth upon her; but always when she spoke to women, she veiled her eyes, for they, being conspirators, saw through it.

They sat down to a table covered with an oilcloth cut in slits by penknives.

Uncle Henry went limping by, hatless in the rain, his head stuck through a hole in a piece of old oilcloth.

He would write for a while, then sit idle, his clenched fist lying on the table, his eyes following the pattern of the oilcloth.

Elinor would not humour her by farther opposition.

But I will not be tempted to set myself in opposition to thee.

Those claims were in opposition, and he was in direct conflict with his education.

Her fingers fluttered; her sympathy came out in spurts; she sat on the edge of a chair in eagerness to be near her auditor, to send her enthusiasms and optimism across.

Only the Henty books and the Elsie books and the latest optimisms by moral female novelists and virile clergymen were in general demand, and the board themselves were interested only in old, stilted volumes.

Even my ordinary pursuits I have almost given up.

He had more than the ordinary triumph of accepted love to swell his heart, and raise his spirits.

All the ordinary conditions of life, without which one can form no conception of anything, had ceased to exist for Levin.