Foss rapidly and somewhat plaintively brought the conversation to an end; and he returned to his ni...
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shone upon the board of Caesar. Some of us, kind old Pagans, watch with dread the shadows falling ...
piety, however; for Anastasie was of a very mundane nature, fond of oysters and old wine, and somew...
matter home and, if necessary, interfere. The next day came, the wind had blown itself out, and the...
breath. Hold your tongue as much as possible at least, and observe my conduct narrowly; it will ser...
and swiftness of the one, swift as an arrow, light as dew; like the other, she shone on the pale ba...
calamity; when the town had come to an end, it inaugurated the hamlet.' 'I, too, am glad of that,'...
the groves, began to stir before me and to put on the lineaments of life and wear a face of awful j...
Imagine the men fooling one to another; imagine how their hearts bounded, how their colour came and...
yearns to join us; we are drawn together as the stars are turned about in space, or as the tides eb...
generally pervaded Fontainebleau with the first fine aroma of his divine good humour. The sun was ...
stricken with horror. What he told me was not true, nor was it even original; being, indeed, but a...
mother?' But at these words all the childishness passed out of his face, and was succeeded by a lo...
caustic, and sometimes offend people at first sight; but I am a good friend at heart to such as you...
civilly enough conceived, and uttered in the same deep-chested, and yet indistinct and lisping tone...