Or even (for this thought crossed my brain) had the hand of man aught to do with this conflagration?
Here we had the advantage of our small personal experience with those three fleet forest girls; and that served to draw us together.
But if the fault was in a disproportionate egotism--then the girl was sure she had the right to have children, even that hers would be better than others.
But for all my limitations I think I had the habit of using my brains in regard to behavior rather more frequently than either of them.
He was not a man of whom it would be generally said that he had the gift of sympathy; but he gave his attention to a friend's circumstances with a conscientious fixedness which was at least very far removed from indifference.
This was his duty; it had the merit of being perfectly plain and definite, easily apprehended, and unattended, as far as he could discover, with the smallest material difficulties.
He had the sun-scorched look of a traveller who has just crossed the Atlantic, and he smiled at Bernard with his honest eyes.
Grandmother is here, and, ill though she is, she watches over me carefully and lovingly, and she would not fail to correct me if she considered that I had the manners of a dragoon or of a hussar.
For about a week," she says, "I thought he had the secret of happiness.
I should not be interested in myself," George Sand said, "if I had the honour of meeting myself.
He was vigorous, he had the art of brevity and brilliant dialogue.
His work went on in his absence almost as well as in his presence; and he had the faculty of making us feel that he was ever present with us.
He could not come among us without betraying his sympathy for us, and, stupid as we were, we had the sagacity to see it.
Previous to '89, we had the aristocracy of blood; then every bourgeois looked down upon the commonalty, and wished to be a nobleman.
I have spoken lightly of jurisprudence: I had the right; but I should be unjust did I not distinguish between this pretended science and the men who practise it.
In one of the shops I had the luck to stumble upon a book which has charmed me nearly to death.
Indeed, from Lucerne to Interlaken we had the spectacle, among other scenery, of an unbroken procession of fruit-peddlers and tourists carriages.
I had the twinges of rheumatism unceasingly during three years, but the last one departed after a fortnight's bathing there, and I have never had one since.
It was said that ill luck of one kind or another always overtook any one who had the misfortune to hear that song.
I wouldn't do it again if I had the chance, not much!
Well, if you'll believe me, I had the brutality to go to see her.
His attitude was one of deep dejection, and his face, though it had the cool, unimpeachable fairness possible only to a very blond young man, was by no means happy.
Deacon Potter told me some time ago that he thought there would be more interest in our prayer-meetings if we had the organ.
Had the track of her next thought been marked by a streak in the air, like the path of a meteor, it would have shown a direction contrary to the heron's, and have descended to the eastward upon the roof of Clym's house.
The absolute solitude in which they lived intensified their reciprocal thoughts; yet some might have said that it had the disadvantage of consuming their mutual affections at a fearfully prodigal rate.
I had the committee to luncheon the other day and we passed them around.
He had thepower of life and death over his people, and there was no law but his word.
He had the appearance of a man nearer eighty than sixty.
Edgar Hoover Building wishing he had the constitution to wear a seersucker suit.
He was a good reporter; he had the smarts, his writing was exemplary and he had developed a solid readership, but early hours were not his strong point.
He had thepasswords to get into the First State computers, and well, he showed me around.
His duties, which were extremely tiresome at first, had the two-fold advantage of familiarizing him with the forms of legal procedure, and of furnishing him with the means of prosecuting his studies.
For the time being, a pert little waiting-maid, with an odious turn-up nose, had the floor.
He had obtained more information than he expected; he had the letter in his pocket, and he had now only one desire, to rid himself of M.
Yesterday I had the happiness of seeing him in the Rue de Helder, and I found him looking pale and careworn.
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