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the taste of stale follies

  The removal of his companion’s hat, besides provoking thisreflection, gave him his first full sight of her face; andthis was so favourable that the name she now pronounced fellon him with a quite disproportionate shock of dismay.   "Oh, Mrs. Murrett’s–was it THERE?"He remembered her now, of course: remembered her as one ofthe shadowy sidling presences […]

Let me see if I can find it

chanel ceramic watches chanel j12   Darrow smiled at the intensity of her distress. It was foodfor the moralist that, side by side with such catastrophesas his, human nature was still agitating itself over itsmicroscopic woes!   "Here’s mine if you want it!" he shouted back at her throughthe shouting of the gale.   The offer caused the […]

and thanked his stars that he need notplunge

  Darrow, whose healthy enjoyment of life made him in generala good traveller, tolerant of agglutinated humanity, felthimself obscurely outraged by these promiscuous contacts.   It was as though all the people about him had taken hismeasure and known his plight; as though they werecontemptuously bumping and shoving him like theinconsiderable thing he had become. "She doesn’t […]

result in his not being able to go to herfor months

  Certainly, if her welcome had meant what he imagined, shecould not, for the second time within a few weeks, havesubmitted so tamely to the disarrangement of their plans; adisarrangement which–his official duties considered–might,for all she knew, result in his not being able to go to herfor months.   "Please don’t come till thirtieth." The thirtieth–and itwas […]

after some months oftroubled drifting

  There, however, the atmosphere had changed with theconditions. He could not say that she avoided him, or eventhat she was a shade less glad to see him; but she was besetby family duties and, as he thought, a little too readilyresigned to them.   The Marquise de Chantelle, as Darrow soon perceived, had thesame mild formidableness […]