The Writings of George Eliot: RomolaHoughton, Mifflin, 1907 |
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... Monna Lisa stood with her arms akimbo to watch him , with a smile of gratified cunning , saying low to herself , — " It's lain there ever since my old man died . What then ? I might as well have put a stone on the fire . He chops very ...
... Monna Lisa stood with her arms akimbo to watch him , with a smile of gratified cunning , saying low to herself , — " It's lain there ever since my old man died . What then ? I might as well have put a stone on the fire . He chops very ...
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... Monna Lisa , and besides she could say a great many things to him that it was no use to shout at Monna Lisa , who knew them already . And he was a stranger — strangers came from a long way off and went away again , and lived nowhere in ...
... Monna Lisa , and besides she could say a great many things to him that it was no use to shout at Monna Lisa , who knew them already . And he was a stranger — strangers came from a long way off and went away again , and lived nowhere in ...
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... Monna Lisa would say she must not go and talk to him , therefore Monna Lisa must not be con- sulted . It did not signify what she found out after it had been done . — Supper was being prepared , she knew a mountain of macaroni flavoured ...
... Monna Lisa would say she must not go and talk to him , therefore Monna Lisa must not be con- sulted . It did not signify what she found out after it had been done . — Supper was being prepared , she knew a mountain of macaroni flavoured ...
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... Monna Lisa . " Sit down and eat it , while I stay with you . " Surprise and distrust surmounted every other feeling in Baldassarre , but though he had no smile or word of gratitude ready , there could not be any impulse to push away ...
... Monna Lisa . " Sit down and eat it , while I stay with you . " Surprise and distrust surmounted every other feeling in Baldassarre , but though he had no smile or word of gratitude ready , there could not be any impulse to push away ...
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... Monna Lisa is deaf , and I live with her . She's a kind old woman , and I'm not fright- ened at her . And we live very well : we have plenty of nice things . I can have nuts if I like . And I'm not obliged to work now . I used to have ...
... Monna Lisa is deaf , and I live with her . She's a kind old woman , and I'm not fright- ened at her . And we live very well : we have plenty of nice things . I can have nuts if I like . And I'm not obliged to work now . I used to have ...
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Page 265 - The law was sacred. Yes, but rebellion might be sacred too. It flashed upon her mind that the problem before her was essentially the same as that which had lain before Savonarola — the problem where the sacredness of obedience ended, and where the sacredness of rebellion began. To her, as to him, there had come one of those moments in life when the soul must dare to act on its own warrant, not only without external law to appeal to, but in the face of a law which is not unarmed with Divine lightnings...
Page 417 - But therefore he may the more fitly be called a martyr by his fellow men to all time. For power rose against him not because of his sins, but because of his greatness — not because he sought to deceive the world, but because he sought to make it noble. And through that greatness of his he endured a double agony: not only the reviling, and the torture, and the death-throe, but the agony of sinking from the vision of glorious achievement into that deep shadow where he could only say, "I count as...
Page 106 - If there is wickedness in the streets, your steps should shine with the light of purity ; if there is a cry of anguish, you, my daughter, because you know the meaning of the cry, should be there to still it. My beloved daughter, sorrow has come to teach you a new worship : the sign of it hangs before you.
Page 369 - ... of the prison. The struggle now was, who should get first in the stream that rushed up the narrow street to see the Prophet carried back in ignominy to the Piazza where he had braved it yesterday — who should be in the best place for reaching his ear with insult, nay, if possible, for smiting him and kicking him. This was not difficult for some of the armed Compagnacci who were not prevented from mixing themselves with the guards. When Savonarola felt himself dragged and pushed along in the...
Page 107 - I did not suppose he was a malefactor. I meant, that if he were a malefactor, your place would be in the prison beside him. My daughter, if the cross comes to you as a wife, you must carry it as a wife. You may say, 'I will forsake my husband,' but you cannot cease to be a wife.
Page 85 - Yes," said Giannozzo Pucci, laying his hand on Tito's shoulder, " the fact is, Tito mio, you can help us better than if you were Ulysses himself, for I am convinced that Ulysses often made himself disagreeable. To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath. And there is not a soul in Florence who could undertake a business like this journey to Rome, for example, with the same safety that you can.
Page 320 - Slowly at first, then faster and faster, that fatal demand had been swelling in Savonarola's ear, provoking a response, outwardly in the declaration that at the fitting time the miracle would come ; inwardly in the faith — not unwavering, for what faith is so ? — • that if the need for...
Page 430 - Lillo, if you mean to act nobly and seek to know the best things God has put within reach of men, you must learn to fix your mini! on that end, and not on what will happen to you because of it. And remember, if you were to choose something lower, and make it the rule of your life to seek your own pleasure and escape from what is disagreeable, calamity might come just the same ; and it would be...