Hylas and the Nymphs

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very simple and natural circumstance. She had scarcely ever been at the Parsonage since the instrument's arrival, there had been no reason that she should; but Miss Crawford, calling to mind an early expressed wish on the subject, was concerned at her own neglect; and "Shall I play to you now?" and "What will you have?" were questions immediately following with the readiest good-humour. ¡¡¡¡ She played accordingly; happy to have a new listener, and a listener who seemed so much obliged, so full of wonder at the performance,
and who shewed herself not wanting in taste. She played till Fanny's eyes, straying to the window on the weather's being evidently fair, spoke what she felt must be done. ¡¡¡¡ "Another quarter of an hour," said Miss Crawford, "and we shall see how it will be. Do not run away the first moment of its holding up. Those clouds look alarming." ¡¡¡¡ "But they are passed over," said Fanny. "I have been watching them. This weather is all from the south."

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jealousy of her sister, the absolute necessity of distrusting his attentions, and wishing him not to return; and a fortnight of sufficient leisure, in the intervals of shooting and sleeping, to have convinced the gentleman that he ought to keep longer away, had he been more in the habit of examining his own motives, and of reflecting to what the indulgence of his idle vanity was tending; but, thoughtless and selfish from prosperity and bad example, he would not look beyond the present moment. The sisters, handsome, clever, and encouraging, were an amusement to his sated mind; and finding nothing in Norfolk to equal the social pleasures of Mansfield, he gladly returned to it at the time appointed,

and was welcomed thither quite as gladly by those whom he came to trifle with further. ¡¡¡¡ Maria, with only Mr. Rushworth to attend to her, and doomed to the repeated details of his day's sport, good or bad, his boast of his dogs, his jealousy of his neighbours, his doubts of their qualifications, and his zeal after poachers, subjects which will not find their way to female feelings without some talent on one side

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we had gone some little distance from the yard before I had the hardihood to mention it. We turned back, on my humbly insinuating that it might be useful to me hereafter; and he told the clerk that the carrier had instructions to call for it at noon. ¡¡¡¡'If you please, sir,' I said, when we had accomplished about the same distance as before, 'is it far?'
¡¡¡¡'It's down by Blackheath,' he said. ¡¡¡¡'Is that far, sir?' I diffidently asked. ¡¡¡¡'It's a good step,' he said. 'We shall go by the stage-coach. It's about six miles.' ¡¡¡¡I was so faint and tired, that the idea of holding out for six miles more, was too much for me. I took heart to tell him that I had had nothing all night, and that if he would allow me to buy something to eat, I should be very much obliged to him. He appeared surprised at this - I see him stop and look at me now - and after

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At this, we all fell a-crying together. I think I was the loudest of the party, but I am sure we were all sincere about it. I was quite heart-broken myself, and am afraid that in the first transports of wounded tenderness I called Peggotty a 'Beast'. That honest creature was in deep affliction, I remember, and must have become quite buttonless on the occasion; for a little volley of those explosives went off, when, after having made it up with my mother, she kneeled down by the elbow-chair, and made it up with me.
¡¡¡¡We went to bed greatly dejected. My sobs kept waking me, for a long time; and when one very strong sob quite hoisted me up in bed, I found my mother sitting on the coverlet, and leaning over me. I fell asleep in her arms, after that, and slept soundly. ¡¡¡¡Whether it was the following Sunday when I saw the gentleman again, or whether there was any greater lapse of time before he reappeared, I cannot recall. I don't profess to be clear about dates. But there he was, in church, and he walked home with us afterwards. He came in, too, to look at a famous geranium we had, in the

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"Lovely," said Elvira,tonelessly.
　　"And then supper afterwards? At the Savoy?"
　　Fresh exclamations from Mrs. Carpenter. ColonelLuscombe, stealing a glance at Elvira, cheered up a little. He thought that Elvira waspleased, though quite determined to express nothing more than polite approval in front ofMrs. Carpenter. "And I don't blameher," he said to himself.
　　He said to Mrs. Carpenter:
　　"Perhaps you'd like tosee your rooms – see they're allright and all that –”
　　"Oh, I'm sure theywill be."
　　"Well, if there'sanything you don't like about them, we'll make them change it. They know me here very well."　Miss Gorringe, in charge at the desk, was pleasantlywelcoming. Nos. 28 and 29 on the second floor with an adjoining bathroom.

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turned his mind inward, to a place and time far from the damp soil of Dagobah, to hismother's chamber, his mother and his…sister. His sister… "Leia! Leia is my sister," he exclaimed, nearly falling over the stump. "Your insight serves you well," Ben nodded. He quickly became stern, though."Bury your feelings deep down, Luke. They do you credit, but they could be madeto serve the Emperor." Luke tried to comprehend what his old teacher was saying. So muchinformation, so fast, so vital…it almost made him swoon. Ben continued his narrative. "When your father left, he didn't know yourmother was pregnant. Your mother and I knew he would find out eventually, but wewanted to keep you both as safe as possible, for as long as possible. So I took you tolive with my brother Owen, on Tatooine…and your mother took Leia to live as thedaughter of Senator Organa, on Alderaan."