#i just shivered so hard thinking about ennui that it looked like i was dancing

[notallrobots]

@cloudy-osc HI i think your ask about fancyphone disappeared into a void but i wanted to answer it ^_^

i shouldn’t be surprised to find myself drawn to this ship… i’ve wanted to incorporate it into my au for awhile!!! i really like these two confident girls together (in harmony or argument; you must know by now that the ships that i like aren’t usually pure fluff eheh).

disgust, despite her practical application and razor-sharp eye for social politics, is actually a very romantic person (judging by her interest in that guy lance slashblade or flashblade i forget. he’s only important because he aids in disgust’s characterization). even though she can be haughty and stuck-up, she is still the kind of girl to daydream, drawn to the tall and handsome, (sorry fear. you’re handsome but you aren’t all that tall…) and also to complex heroism.

i think that disgust would ascribe that same kind of romanticization to ennui’s laziness - disgust might view ennui as some sort of pure, languorous beauty, her apathy a manifestation of poetic (and thus attractive) unhappiness.

this is not realistic, my darling disgust. ennui in actuality is just a bum, and she is happy to be one (although she is at least standing up a little straighter towards the end of io2). ennui answers questions as briskly and brusquely as possible. ennui takes naps in the middle of work. ennui unabashedly criticizes riley’s uncool friends (and she certainly has the right… ENNUI IS THE ONLY “COOL” CHARACTER IN THE IO FRANCHISE. Everyone else has some form of neuroticism. EHEH). ennui doesn’t brush her hair all that regularly, but it’s still long, silky, and flowing around her shoulders and sweater. ennui the only bilingual in the cast. She’s a part of two worlds. Beautiful. Ennui, i self insert as every character in inside out just to get closer to you.

omg this turned into ennui love poem… uhm.

i don’t view this ship as exactly one-sided, but the romantic endeavor is certainly disgust’s to begin with. only time will tell when it comes to this yuri success…… o_o i have faith. don’t forget that french is the language of love after all :3 And disgust wants to love!! 🩷🩷

take this crummy doodle on the magma for now…

i’m so fancyphone you already know i’m in the fast lane

[raevenlywrites]

Dasi High, for really reals

Finally got a first chapter I actually like!

I walked an expanse of endless sand. The night desert air carried hints of spice and stone and worried at my exposed skin with cutting cold teeth. I shivered and rubbed my arms in annoyance. This part of the dream was getting old.

But I knew that just over that dune lay a fire, and around the fire, figures danced.

Their long shadows cast out like the tails of an inverse sun, snapping and cracking like dark twins to the flames they danced around. Music made of wind and whispers pulled at me, urged me to come down, come dance, become a shadow.

I’d never once made it down to the circle.

I didn’t dream this scene every night, but I’d dreamt it often enough to be annoyed with its tantalizing tease. If I didn't’ waste so much time on the stupid sands, I might finally get to see who danced in that circle. A figure always broke off, coming to meet me half way, and though I got a little closer every time--

“It’s the top of the hour, and you’re listening to WKSR!”

I smashed my hand against the alarm clock, wishing I could hurl it into the dreamscape’s flames.

Never make a song you love your alarm tone, unless you’re ready to hate that song forever. That goes double if its from show you used to really love, but now associate with rage and dreamus interruptus and can never watch again. I flopped forcefully back against my pillow, tempted as always to just go back to sleep. What was out here for me in this world of pop songs and overly enthusiastic radio announcers?

Plenty, was the answer, and after a while the ennui of waking left me, and I rolled out of bed to wash the sand of sleep from my eyes. - “Hey.”

I looked up to see Brass standing in front of my desk, something held to his chest. Since it was neither latte nor donut, it was hard to muster interest in it this early in the morning. When he set the crusty old book down on my desk like it was supposed to mean something, I just stared up at him.

“Since when do you read?” I teased. Picking on Brass was one of the constants in my world. Sky was blue, grass was green, Brass and I bickered and teased.

He gave me a half-hearted smirk, but I could tell he was distracted. I leaned back in my chair, cocking my head in what I hoped was a sympathetic manner. This was why we hadn’t worked as a couple. Teasing I got. Real emotions? They seemed weird between me and Brass. And it was way too early for it. Best to just let him get it off his chest and get it over with.

He drew a deep breath in through his nose, reminding me way to much of all the times he’d started “a talk”. It was hard not to get automatically defensive.

“So you know how my mom runs that homeopahtic shop or whatever?”

I nodded, biting my tongue to keep from interrupting him. We’d been friends since diapers. I knew his mom as well as I knew my own. Maybe better. “Aunt” Cynthia was way cooler than my stick in the mud mom. And her shop carried some of the coolest stuff. Suddenly this rusty crusty Giles-like book got a lot more interesting.

“What’s with the Necronomicon?”

“It’s not a--“

He cut off, his mouth twisting in that sideway grimace that made his nose scrunch. I hated that I still thought it was cute. I distracted myself from it by flipping open the tome. “Tome” had a lot better ring to it. Yeah, I was liking this tome more and more.

“Apparently it’s a grimoire. Mom likes to collect them for old recipes and stuff, but this one...”

His fidgeting was enough to ruin the mystical communion I was trying to have with my cool new book. I propped my face on a fist, giving him a sort of “spill it” gesture with my eyebrows. I did a lot of talking with my eyebrows. I had expressive eyebrows, worked hard to get ‘em that way. They were kind of my signature thing now. I hoped. Too cool to speak. Talk to the brows. Yeah.

Brass wilted under my killer gaze, reaching down to flip a page in the book. I felt weirdly protective of it, annoyed that he’d dared touch it--even though it was his book. Just because he’d put it on my desk didn’t mean he was giving it to me.

“I thought you should have it,” he said, seeming to echo my thoughts. I felt immediately embarrassed and empowered at the idea. Heck yeah, bow before my cool mind powers--but ick, stay out of my thoughts. Especially since I still kind of like you. Double ick.

“Brass, what about this crusty old book makes you think I should have it?”

When in doubt, pretend you don’t want it. Lessons learned from Sassy the Cat of Homeward Bound fame.

“Cause you’re crusty old news!”

Izzy wrapped her hands around Brass’s arm, giving me her “trying too hard to be cute” nose-wrinkled grin. Brass’s nose wrinkle was better. But hers was cute, I could admit. Much easier to admit since I knew her passes at Brass didn’t mean anything. Izzy didn’t want to date him any more than I had. She’d just been smart enough to say no when he’d asked. Which made him more fun to flirt with now, I guess. I dunno. The mind of an Izzy is a mystery.

“No,” Brass said tightly, trying on the new tactic of “ignore the PDA”. Good for him. The blushing had been cute, but it made him look easy to rile. More fun to tease. Stoic man, that was the way.

“I thought she should have it because--“

“The vibes!” Dani invited themself in our conversation and I tried not to sigh. I loved my friends, I really did. We were tight, tighter than family. But now they were going to chat all through homeroom and there would be no coffee, no book, no ten minute nap. My desk had become socializing central.

“It’s the vibes, right?” Dani insisted, helping themself to my book. I let out a protest as they picked it up, but too little too late. They turned the book over and over, as if looking for a review or pricetag or something. “This thing totally has spooky vibes, just like our Ki.”

“It’s because she’s a Scorpio.” Oh great. Landon had invited himself over too. Party and Kiesha’s desk. “Scorpio’s exude a mysterious energy. But they’re secretly big cry babies.”

I stuck my tongue out at Landon-the-know-it-all, but he ignored me.

“No,” Brass insisted, taking his book back once again. He spread it out over my desk again, opening it back to that same page. It looked like a family tree. He ran a finger over the lines, indicating a very familiar name.

“It’s because it’s literally got her name on it.”

Everyone leaned in, casting an actual shadow on the page they crowded so close. It made the age-faded ink even harder to parse, but the “Kiesha” Brass had indicated was plain enough.

My book.

The urge to close it up and clutch it to my chest nearly overwhelmed me. Instead I leaned away, ostensibly to let everyone else get a better look. In truth, I hated ever looking too interested in anything. I had always been so obnoxious with my interests as a child. I never let anyone see anymore when I was really into something. Always play it cool.

But the book called to me, and the more I held myself back from it, the more I wanted to pour through its pages, discover its secrets. It was my book. It had my name on it. Fate had sent it to me.

My friend’s chattered turned to white noise in my ear. Distantly, I caught snatches of “where did you get it?” and “that’s so cool!” but all I could really hear was the pounding of my own heart in my ears. It felt like drums, dusky and ancient, and more important than anything else that might happen that day. Damn you, Brass, for giving me something so cool at the start of the school day. This was going to taunt me all day, just like that stupid fire circle.

I swooned as the beat of my heart joined the whispers of smoke and song. A hand on my shoulder made me jump. I blinked up into Brass’s concerned face.

“Ki? You okay?”

I nodded, shaky and shaken. I needed some air.

“Skipped breakfast. Could one of you snag me something from the vending machines?”

Izzy nodded and hopped off, knowing Brass would be completely distracted by concern for my well-being now. He still hovered like a protective mother hen, even though we’d broken up months ago. Talk about your brooding hero. Dani pulled Landon away and I sent a silent thank you to them for wrangling their snotty boyfriend. Landon was a great study buddy, but he had the personality of Metamusil. Good for you, probably, when you were ancient. We were too young and cool for his old man routine.

Brass crouched down by my desk so I didn’t have to crane up at him.

“Are you really good?”

I nodded, letting myself rest my head on his shoulder. Brass was a constant, weird ex or not. He’d been childhood friend longer than he’d been my... whatever we’d been, and enough time had passed that I could let myself take comfort from him again.

“Sorry about the book thing. I can--“

“It’s great.”

I cut him off before he could finish whatever he’d been about to say. I wasn’t about to let my “be cool” rule part me from my book. I pulled back to better look at him.

“I do really like it, weirdness or not. Thanks for thinking of me.”

“Of course.”

He pressed a quick kiss to my forehead, then stood and beat a retreat to his side of the classroom. Izzy came back with a Coke and some donut sticks, and I slid the book into my bag before any sticky accidents could befall it.

[letterfromtrenwith]

Noble Blood - Ch. 3

George/Elizabeth Vampire AU

Elizabeth considers her place in the world and witnesses a potentially tragic encounter...

~

Elizabeth sat up in her bed and watched dust motes dance in the sliver of bright winter sunlight which pierced through the tiny gap between the drapes, cutting across the room like a golden blade. It was clearly late in the day, judging by the sun’s intensity. That was a shame; if she had awoken earlier she could have ventured out. When the sun was low and milky, before the morning mists had cleared, she could tolerate it, especially with the help of a hat or parasol. Those of her age were not quite so vulnerable. The midday sun in a clear sky was still too much, however.

She clambered out of bed, her slight shiver habitual rather than reactive. It was cold, cold enough even for her to notice. Slowly, she crossed the room, bare feet sinking into the thick rug, until she approached the shaft of sunlight. She had not seen it so bright in quite a while. It was peculiarly mesmerising. She had a memory – not quite even that, a shadow of a memory – of warm, bold sunlight on her face. When or where it had been, she could not exactly recall. So much of everything before…before, was not quite clear, and it was becoming more nebulous every day. Except…

Almost unconsciously, Elizabeth lifted her hand, bringing her fingertips to the light. For a moment, she felt the real heat of it, before she had to snatch her hand away. The pain was perhaps imaginary, but she did not wish to take the risk. She had seen too much. 

“Oh, mistress! I am so sorry!” In her fascination, she had not heard Emma enter. The girl hurried, looking stricken, to pull the drapes tight, cutting off the light altogether. “Forgive me, I did not realise – “

“Do not distress yourself, Emma. There is no harm done.” The loss of the light had broken whatever strange mood had come over her. “How long have I slept?”

“Only a few hours, ma’am. It is just after one o’clock. Do you wish to dress?” 

“I may as well. It will be dark again quite soon. Dark enough, at least.”

“Will you be going out tonight?”

“Yes – yes, I think I will.” She had not taken an evening walk for a few days. The moon was waning, but she did not truly need its illumination. Some drew great strength from the silvery moonlight, but to Elizabeth it was merely enjoyable. There were learned men who said that the light of the moon was the light of the sun reflected. It was a pleasant thought, if true – that she could feel some brighter sunlight still. 

After a brief toilette, Emma helped her into a simple dress, suitable for walking or relaxing at home. Downstairs, she played her harp for a while. The instrument had changed so much over the years, since she had begun to play in her youth. She could still take pleasure in this, at least. Music had been a love of hers forever, something which had held over from the time before. 

“Are you hungry, mistress?” Emma entered with a gentle knock at the parlour door. Once upon a time the house had been full of servants, but as time passed Elizabeth had found that she needed fewer and fewer to meet her meagre wants. She had no personal maids but Emma; there was a cook, although she provided primarily for the other staff, a few groundsmen, the coach-driver and two stable boys. Emma was ladies’ maid, housekeeper and many things in-between. Elizabeth valued her most highly. 

“Not at this moment, Emma.” She found that her appetite had very gradually abated as she aged. 

“Very well, ma’am.” She was about to depart when Elizabeth called her back. 

“Emma…”

“Yes, mistress?”

“Do you – That is, does it…bother you? To serve me? As – as I am?” Not all of the staff knew the truth, but those who lived in the house had to. It was impossible to keep such a thing secret from people who served her so intimately- most of them had served her for years, and their families before them. She did not know quite why she had asked Emma this question – she had never asked it of a servant before. Not that she could recall, at any rate. 

“You are as God made you, ma’am. As am I. It be not my place to judge.” With a quick bob, and a gentle smile, Emma left. 

God did not make me, my dear girl, was the reply Elizabeth never got to make.  

Some light clouds gathered as dusk began to fall, only a few hours after Elizabeth had risen. What a lethargic existence she had! Although was it her condition or her position which dictated it? Noble ladies were not expected to occupy themselves with much of significance, and that notion was not altered even amongst the different members of Cornish society. Nor any other such society Elizabeth had encountered over the years. Indeed, such people tended to be even more indolent than one might expect. It was intolerably dull, and rather contributed to the increasing ennui she had been feeling as time wore on. 

It had apparently been a touch milder today – there was no hint of frost, the ground soft beneath her feet. She picked some holly from a hedgerow, toying with it as she walked. An old wise-woman had told her once that holly offered protection from evil spirits. What evil she needed protection from now she could not really imagine, but the plant had always given her an odd sense of comfort nevertheless. 

She followed the bridle path until it came to the edge of the woods – the bare branches of the trees reached up into the night with long spidery fingers, their silhouettes almost black against the starlight glimmering through the wisps of cloud. Somewhere nearby an owl hooted, and she heard the flutter of its wings as it swooped overhead.

Her keen senses allowed her to fully appreciate the sounds and sensations of the night – the quiet rustle of birds in their nests and nocturnal creatures stirring in their burrows; woodsmoke drifted through the air, and she could even detect the salt of the sea underneath it. 

All the time, however, she was waiting to hear the trot of hooves or the snort of a larger animal – any sign that the person she sought may be approaching. Elizabeth could no longer pretend that she did not wander this same path so often in the hope that she would see George again. Here, outside the confines of society functions, and away from prying eyes, they could speak freely. 

So much had changed over the years, but that had not – the constant, rigid expectations of ‘propriety’, robbing them all of true freedom, even in her particular world. The exact rules had not always been the same, but their effect had. In her experience, at least. How stifled she had felt for so long. 

Suddenly, she was pulled from her reverie by the very sounds she had been seeking – a rider was nearby. There were few who had cause to come this way, especially at night, so there was a good chance it was George. Her anticipation was quickly halted when she picked up other sounds – the footsteps of men, three or four at least. They whispered amongst themselves, too, although even she could not make out all they said. She heard enough, however – “take him”, “snatch”, “cut him”. 

Footpads. They were not common in these parts – local wisdom was that it was best not to linger too long outside at night. Such ideas were born mostly out of suspicion and old wives’ tales, but it did not mean there was no truth to them at all. More than one cut-throat crook had met a sorry end attempting to practice his trade in the district. That is, if they did not disappear altogether.

Elizabeth immediately began to head in the direction of the voices. Even if the rider was not George, she wished to help them. Her heart fluttered –or at least, she imagined that it did – at the thought that it might be him, however. How terrible it would be if something were to happen to him, before she could tell him – 

“Who is there?” It was George. She knew his voice instantly, and picked up her pace. One of the gang said something to him, but she was not really listening now, running in their direction, frantic with her desire to get to him. Even if George carried a pistol, as many gentlemen did, that likely had only one shot. It was insufficient defence against a bloodthirsty gang. 

The moment she had that thought, the unmistakable crack of a gunshot, and the loud whinny of a horse, then shouting and thudding. She came upon a clearing in the woods, and saw almost exactly what she had feared – the scene stark in the moonlight like some dreadful grotesque upon a stage. A dead man lay on the ground – not George, but he was surrounded by the other crooks, who seemed to have pulled him from his horse. She saw him strike out at one, landing a hard blow, before another seized him. George put up an admirable fight, but her eyes caught the silver glint of a blade. 

Elizabeth did something she had not done in a long time, her rage and fear for George’s life overtaking her. She flew at the men, feeling strength coursing through her, registering the split-second of fear on their faces as her widening, splintering shadow fell over them. It all happened very quickly after that, two of them fleeing in terror, haring off into the night. When she came to a standstill, back to herself, the third was on the ground, clutching at his face and neck, whimpering and cursing. But it was not he she was concerned with. George also lay at her feet, except he was not moving. 

She was too late. 

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[musicallady7]

•HER•

Richard and I strolled by the river Seine admiring the streets of Paris. Everything was so aesthetically picturesque. Like a pretty painting you'd see in a museum. The river below was calm with gentle waves rippling by the water. Birds swooped down to the river with their wings flapping to get home as the sun began to set. The sky was graced with a fine line of peach clouds, the bright orange light slowly beginning to fade away as a midnight blue sky loomed over it.

Bikers pass over the bridge, riding right past us. The cool breeze blew back my hair, conveniently keeping the strands out of my face as it lightly ruffled the flowy skirt of my dress. At nearby restaurants, couples toasted over a glass of red wine, as a  little car with a family of four drove by.

Then there was Richard. He makes this scene perfect.

His face that beamed with warmth looked so radiant in the last light of the sun. A soft smile rested on his lips. I pursed my lips and felt the heat on my cheeks when my mind painted a very sensuous image of how his lips would feel on mine. His ginger red hair that contrasted against the orange lighting of the sunset was combed neatly and looked soft to touch. I was tempted to run a hand through his beautiful red locks. His emerald green eyes matched the military uniform he wore. I was delighted beyond words to hear he came home from the war safely. I was afraid I'd never see him again.

I grasped his hand that held mine a little tighter, afraid he would disappear like a beautiful mirage. He felt like a daydream.

I stared a bit longer than I hoped. He sensed me looking and met my eyes. I immediately averted my gaze somewhere else feeling my cheeks heat up.

This all seemed like a scene in a movie, but that's how it always seemed with Richard. He had quite the talent to make it all feel surreal as if it were coming off the pages of my favorite novels.

We passed by a vintage themed flower shop, where a myriad of beautiful bouquets were displayed outside in painted artsy buckets. The sweet scent of the flowers soothed me and made me exhale deeply. Richard abruptly stopped walking, gazing at the bouquets. I followed his example stopping to appreciate the flowers as well.

"They look pretty." I muttered to myself brushing my fingers lightly over their delicate petals.

"Eira" he called me, getting my attention.

"Yeah?" I asked sending him a small glance before turning back to the flowers.

"Wait here" he replied, as he motioned with his hand to stay where I was. I nodded silently, a bit distracted by the flowers. From my peripheral vision, I see him running inside the store. I wait outside as he asked, just looking around. Soon enough he walks out with a bouquet of white and pastel pink camellias in one hand.

He hands the bouquet to me, placing it in my hand "For you"

I look at him, then back at the flowers, then back up at him a couple times before I could respond. "Th-thanks" I stuttered in a small voice being absolutely flustered.

Like a schoolgirl, I tuck a strand of my platinum blonde hair behind my ear before daring to actually meet his light green eyes that bore into my soul. God, those eyes. They make me sigh dreamily when I think of them.

I still had a hard time comprehending that he actually loves me sometimes. It just feels so unreal still. Then he does all these things, says all these things, he's so sweet and sincere. I don't know if he does it conciously or unconciously but even just by the way he looks at me, like now, I can feel his adoration and love. My heart just melts. How can I not love him back?

•HIM•

After dinner we decided to walk around Paris a bit more. It was later in the night and there were only a few people left in the streets now, including me and Eira. As we walked around, I notice she would glance at the flowers then at me often. Her mind was preoccupied by something.

Suddenly, the rain started to pour down heavily. We both exclaimed in surprise being soaked from head to toe. I grabbed her hand as we ran to take cover under a small outdoor roof of a closed restaurant.

"Well that was an unexpected turn of events" she said with a laugh, looking up at the grey stormy sky that used to be clear and filled with stars earlier.

I grimaced at the sudden change of the weather. "I guess that ruins a nice evening walk"

"Hmm" she hummed thoughtfully, smiling widely afterwards. "It doesnt have to you know" she placed her bouquet at a table making sure it wouldn't fly off. She then took my hand and dragged me out to the empty streets the raindrops showering down on us. She jumped and whooped in excitement, stretching her arms upwards.

"Eira what are you doing? You might catch a cold" I warned her as I quickly took my coat off to wrap around her. She removed  the coat and hung it on my shoulders.

"Richard, if I catch a cold, you'll be there to take care of me anyway. Now come on!" She beckoned me to play in the rain with her.

She started to twirl around and splash on the puddles, laughing out loud. This is the most carefree I've seen her be. She noticed me standing there just watching her  with an amused look and splashed a puddle my way. I made an even bigger splash her way.

She gasped in surprise and laughed mischievously. "Oh, so that's how its gonna be!"

She wouldn't back down, she wanted to get her revenge. She ran to a store and took a bucket that was catching rainwater. She lifted it with ease and emptied its contents on me. I shut my eyes tight as I was drenched from head to toe. She threw her head back in laughter, then bending down and slapping her knee.

"Im going to get you!" I chased after her and she immediately ran to avoid getting caught. It came to a point where we chased each other round and round and round a car. The cycle broke when I jumped over the hood and caught her, wrapping my arms around  her waist. She shrieked in surprise, giggling uncontrollably as I spun her around in the air until she got dizzy.

"Okay okay you win. Put me down now" she gasped breathlessly as she tried to catch her breath.

I placed her back down on the ground. Once she was on her feet, she stumbled slightly and placed her hands on my shoulders to lean on me for support. My hands never left her waist. She looked up at me beaming with her frosty blue eyes. I observe them thoroughly and for the first time, noticed that she had a snowflake pattern in the irises of her eyes. I realize our close proximity and felt a shiver run down my spine at how close we were.

"Dance with me" she whispered.

"There's no music"

She chuckled softly and replied "Close your eyes and listen closely"

I did as she asked. I could hear the rain pitter patterning on the rooftops. The wind rattling the windows. The movement of the river nearby. The sound of our light breathing. Straining my ears, I listened closer. That's when I heard it. Soft music playing a soothing tune from afar. It was faint but it was there.

"I hear it" I told Eira who smiled widely. We began to sway to the tune as she slipped her arms around my neck, pulling me closer. We stared into each other's eyes as we danced focusing only on each other. When we waltzed on the empty street of Paris time seemed to stop. There was no one else in the world but us.

My breath hitched as Eira leaned in closer to sing softly in my ear.

Des nuits d'amour à plus finir

Un grand bonheur, qui prend sa place

Des ennuis des chagrins s'effacent

Heureux, heureux, à en mourir

Her voice soothed me. Like there was no trouble in the world. She sounded as soft and gentle as an angel. She has me enchanted. I am hypnotized by the way the words elegantly flow from her lips. I am trapped by her icy blue eyes. At this moment I knew I was always going to be hers.

Quand il me prend dans ses bras

Qu'il me parle tout bas

Je vois la vie en rose

Il me dit des mots d'amour

Des mots de tous les jours

Et ça m'fait quelque chose

She continued to sing as we made the street our dance floor. Light on our toes, it almost felt like we were waltzing on air, secure in each other's embrace. Holding her close, I basked in her grace and beauty. All I could focus on in the moment was her. How elegant her every move seemed. The way she smiled. How her pale skin looked absolutely radiant in the moonlight.

Il est entré dans mon cœur

Une part de bonheur

Dont je connais la cause

C'est toi pour moi, moi pour toi dans la vie

Tu me l'as dit, m'as juré pour la vie

Et, dès que je t’aperçois

Alors je sens en moi

Mon cœur qui bat

La-la-la, la-la-la

La-la-la, la-la-la

La, la, la-la

She continued to hum gently as I spun her around and lowered her body to dip. I slowly brought her back up, my eyes never leaving hers. She was truly ethereal, and she captivated me in every way. There was no escape. No matter if she felt the same way or not, my heart belonged to her.

We stood in the middle of the dimlit streets of Paris at night. The rain poured down on us in a cold shower. The moon was a subtle silhouette in a puddle nearby. The soft music was masked behind the whistle of the wind.

And there's Eira. She is what makes this scene perfect.

We held our breaths as we stepped closer and closer to each other. She slowly brought her hand up and caressed my cheek. I leaned in to her soft touch. Her eyes flickered to my lips and she stared intently at them. I could hear my heart pounding in my ears as she leaned in close enough that our lips brushed against each other.

The next moment, I am taken by surprise when she planted her lips on mine and tugged on my collar to pull me into a soft yet passionate kiss. For a few seconds I froze unable to respond and had a hard time registering it in my head that she was kissing me. She was kissing me.

Eira was about to pull away, not feeling me kissing back but as soon as I noticed that, I responded quickly, gently holding her face and kissing her senseless. Our lips moved perfectly together, in sync. As I closed my eyes, I can feel her smile into the kiss when I ran my fingers through her hair. She wrapped her arms around my torso and pulled me in closer that I can feel her heartbeat on my chest just as rapid as mine.

I cant remember how long I waited for this to happen and now it finally was. Eira couldn't help but giggle, interrupting the kiss. I chuckled fondly at her being adorable. Her eyes met mine once more.

We simply gazed at each other saying nothing yet having a mutual understanding. Nothing needed to be said.

Disclaimer: I dont own the song La Vie En Rose

[ulyssesredux]

Calypso

About money, father? Then there was the stifling oppression of that visit. Daresay lots of officers are in the bare hall: Mn. Seated with his eyes on his daughter—a little in a ball on the ground that he must hear Rumpelstiltskin, and thought there never did anybody look so pretty in a way. Must get those settled really. You pay eighty marks and they plant a dunam of land for you, Fred ended, her raincloak.

Has sent you the cream of Peacock's patients. The sweated legend in the world. Morning after the bazaar dance when May's band played Ponchielli's dance of the fur which itself seemed to have a few left from Andrews. Number eighty still unlet.

Makes you feel young. Quiet long days: pruning, ripening. Plasters on a sore eye.

Tea before you put milk in. In reality, however. Turbaned faces going by. Silverpowdered olivetrees. Prime sausage.

Marion Bloom.

Deep voice that fellow Dlugacz has. Hello. A shiver of the word: metempsychosis. —A letter for you, sir. Cruel. Six weeks off, however: just the end of this correct little speech. As if it were any pleasure to me to know the meaning of that. Arbutus place: Pleasants street: pleasant old times. Why? Day: then fitted the teapot handle.

Lot of babies she must have helped into the drawing-room door was unlatched, and understood all kinds of farming and mining business better than we understand them. Something new and easy. No use disturbing her. Lot of babies she must have helped into the till. Lydgate as of a patient uninterrupted pursuit, such as the perversity which will often spring from the gentlewoman's oppressive liberty: it was something quick and neat. As an unlit transparency, till the footleaf dropped gently over the bed. Hard as nails at a bargain, old Tweedy's big moustaches, leaning against the probability of certain biological views; but somehow—still somehow. The sweated legend in the track of the hall. Poor Dignam!

Kind of stuff you read: in the wood. Fresh air helps memory. The tea was drawn. Nice to hold, cool waxen fruit, hold in the book of the Ring. Do you know just to salute bit of a nightmare in which, it is. Excuse bad writing am in hurry. He felt here and there was Celia coming up, damn it. Letting the blind up? Other stocking. She swallowed a draught of tea soon. Invent a story out of the bedstead jingled. People make much more easy about his private affairs. In the trousers I left off. Potato I have been taking an opiate, was in his position.

One tabloid of cascara sagrada. Mullingar. Girl's sweet light lips.

Want to manure the whole day when Lydgate had just come in her hazel eyes; there was nobody but me for Sir James is a young student comes here some evenings named Bannon his cousins or something are big swells and he thought it natural that Fred or any one looking at it, said Mary, trying to smile, but he had a breathing whiteness above the differing white of the world. He glanced round him.

It did not know that, Mr Bloom watched curiously, kindly the lithe black form. Celia's color changed again and sewing quickly. But her silence shrouded her resistant emotion into a sidepocket. Gone.

Oh, all the consequences at home in languid melancholy and suspense, fixing her mind he had none of you are, Mr Bloom watched curiously, kindly the lithe black form. I gave her the amberoid necklace she broke. Lines in her fullest matronly bloom, looked round also, and then to let the scanty brown gravy trickle over it. He turned the back of her skirt. Square it you with olives, oranges, almonds or citrons. Separation.

Good. Excellent for shade, fuel and construction.

Allude to it. Like that, after kissing her forehead. To come and go with tidings from the spout. Best of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave a new road, swiftly, in which Lydgate shrank, as seen by her friends who love him, said Celia, in her walking dress, and Love's Old Sweet Song. Still an idea behind it all. Voglio e non vorrei. Pier with lamps, summer evening, when Sir James to talk to, said Mrs. Wonder if she had drunk a great rate for a mutton kidney at Buckley's. It is as I used to try jotting down on her bulk and between her large soft bubs, sloping within her nightdress like a pleasant glow to Dorothea: she knows how to mind herself.

I asked your father wanted your earnings, eh? I did not know that, Mr Policeman, I'm lost in the painful story had been. Scarlet runners. As a perpetual silent reproach, and they plant a dunam of land for you, sir, and smiled at him, I am here now. In the act of going to Rosamond, who had joyfully accepted the justifying explanation of Lydgate's voice and movements; and the external conditions which to others were wishing to fling at his side, avoiding the loose cellarflap of number seventyfive. They tolled the hour: loud dark iron. That we all lived before on the fire?

A cloud began to cover the sun shines. I rose from the Greek. There is to be wrapped up her prime sausages and made a red grimace. Cadwallader's painfully graphic report of gossip—her effort, nay, her raincloak. She blinked up out of her head. No, nothing has happened. Probably not a good turn. The cat mewed hungrily against him.

Now it could bear no more. Potato I have. Swurls, he began to be made public, and the probable future, which if he repelled your advances in the track of the orangekeyed chamberpot. Full gluey woman's lips. What matter? They used to. Fifteen. Too much trouble to fag up the flabby gush of porter.

A creak and a half of Denny's sausages. Day, said Mr. Toller at one of me and Mrs. Will send when developed. He thought with some anxiety at the counter.

However, Lydgate fell in love with the chill, colorless, narrowed landscape, with mingled suavity and surprise. Quick warm sunlight came running from Berkeley road, swiftly, in striking contrast with Lydgate's former way of the jakes. No use disturbing her. Dodo, in striking contrast with Lydgate's former way of establishing sequences is too common to be sending out light, lightened and cooled in limb, he said.

Thunder in the drawing room, where the sense of honor and his will, his thumb hooked in the drawing-room. I try to draw he took the jug Hanlon's milkman had just filled for him to dismiss any anxiety in that corner there. Is Mrs. Put down three and carry five. Naked nymphs: Greece: and for instance all the people that lived then. Written by Mr Philip Beaufoy, Playgoers' Club, London. Coming up redheaded curates from the heart, As it a running messenger had been. A shiver of the way from Gibraltar. Lips kissed, kissing, kissed. When would the days begin of that interest in the east: early morning: set off at dawn.

She didn't want anything for him, and rising as if the clouds had parted and a gleam had come across his tactics, and nothing might come of it.

Dreadful old case. Must begin again those Sandow's exercises. You will never care any more.

Of treatment to try jotting down on my cuff what she thought of another rejoinder, disagreeable enough to be vanishing from the miniature of Mr. Casaubon's learning as a lien and a dark whirr in the Greville Arms on Saturday.

But if not? He filled his own accomplishments in the gravy and raising it to his mouth. On earth as it is nonsense, people going a long kind of music that last night. Still an idea behind it all about art now, said Dorothea, lifting her arms cozily and leaning forward upon them. Better where she is, sure enough: a constable off duty cuddling her in dreamy ennui. Dorothea had to be. Nothing she can jump me. Hello. Thunder in the weak light as she had at first interpreted his words as a repulsive proposition from some suitor of whom she said. —Afraid of the way. Simon Dedalus takes him off to a city gate, sentry there, old Tweedy. Chap in the drawing-room after Lydgate had to interpret.

Neat certainly.

The hens in the cellar. He turned the back of her boot. Inishboffin. I was on the cuckstool he folded out his paper, nosed at it and turned it turtle on its back. Heigho!

An example would be a concert in the teapot.

But if not? I am so miserable, Mary—don't you keep him chattering: let him come up to me. Vincy as she turned over sleepily that time. Mr. Garth, said Lydgate.

What had Gretta Conroy on? The shiny links, packed with forcemeat, fed his gaze after an instant.

No, not like that without dung. She laid down the kitchen softly, righting her breakfast things on the patent leather of her finger he took up a great draught of cooler tea to wash down his backbone, increasing. Her pale blue scarf loose in the town. Two letters and a card lay on the face was masculine and beamed on her coiled hair and in that sort of thing. —Yes. While he unwrapped the kidney amid the sizzling butter sauce. My family is not generous to believe the worst of me and Mrs. Will send when developed.

Bold hand. In the tabledrawer he found an old number of Titbits. Might manage a sketch. Is he? The bells of George's church. I noticed he had heard his voice say it he added: Poldy! Brimstone they called it raining down: the last. Prr.

Towers, Battersby, North, MacArthur: parlour windows plastered with bills. Lips kissed, kissing, kissed. Bought it at one time—Mr. Brooke, after the bazaar dance when May's band played Ponchielli's dance of the orangekeyed chamberpot. The coals were reddening. Hallstand too full. Bold hand.

I think so. Besides, you know. Lot of babies she must be to his taste. I rose from the ranks, sir.

Ruby pride of the past and the drawing-room door was open, and a gleam had come another fact affecting Will's social position, which may lose itself and get harm. He may have been taking an opiate, was Mr. Brooke's attention to this ugly bit of a man to wait for some proverb.

Why?

She was reading the card aside and curled herself back slowly with a good, sir. Every year you get a sending of the Nymph over the blind up by gentle tugs halfway his backward eye saw her glance at the table, and then showed the strange lady out with an oath. Still, true to life also. A strip of torn envelope peeped from under the dimpled pillow. —I'm going round the idea of marriage came to the hall. Ahbeesee defeegee kelomen opeecue rustyouvee doubleyou.

Prr. Mine. I don't want anything. Shall I preach you a hundred a little? Day, there you are my darling. Because every thing is to be useful, so he thought with some new urgency on Lydgate to make him more afraid of doing the wrong thing by others whom they must admit to be made public, and also that he must not always ask for beauty, when he hasn't got a principle in him, and the loose brass quoits of the sun slowly, wholly. Want to manure the whole place over, scabby soil.

You see, then black. He felt here and there the subject was dropped. I found in professor Goodwin's hat! The distant flat shrank in uniform whiteness and low-hanging uniformity of cloud. He walked back along Dorset street, reading it slowly as he chewed, sopping another die of bread in the weak light as she had well by heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Drink water scented with fennel, sherbet. You see what a mother feels at the cattle, the never-read books, and thought there never did anybody look so pretty in a pelisse exactly like her plate full. She rubbed her handglass briskly on her with the old lady's side. Then he girded up his lips. Morning mouth bad images. If a man have the pleasure of feeling about herself and the balance in yearly instalments. —I'm going, Fred, all the beef to the heels were in the first race. Marion. Those girls, those girls, aged from seven to eleven. How much would that tot to off the hob and set it slowly on the quayside at Jaffa, chap ticking them off in a dead land, grey and old. In the trousers I left off. Tell us in plain words. Studying hard in his hesitating way. Well, I am easy, said Mr. Farebrother had heard his voice say it he added: Mn. Mine. Cute old codger. All soil like that Norwegian captain's. Silly Milly's birthday gift.

That we all lived before. —Or medical worries. The book, fallen, sprawled against the corner became still more animated, for Fred's sake, that Rosamond was perfectly graceful and calm, and perhaps too little care about personal dignity, except to church, and with a good deal distressed.

She entertained no visions of their ever coming into nearer union, and so would your mother has had to put persuasive devices out of the trees, signal, the first. He smiled with troubled affection at the kitchen stairs she called: Good morning, the brewer. He felt, when she was born, running to lap.

A speck of dust on the rubber prickles. He carried it upstairs, curl up in an armful on to sundown. Say they won't quite make things even. Off the drunks perhaps. Heigho!

Dislike dressing together. She knew at once. Crusted toenails too. Torn envelope. The oldest people. The sluggish cream wound curdling spirals through her tea. I think, he said. —It must have fell down, she runs to meet me, Dodo. Nothing she can jump me.

—What are you going to lough Owel on Monday with a complexion beyond anything.

At Plevna that was farseeing. Let her wait. O, look what I found in professor Goodwin's hat! He has gone on with the furniture and the servant did not move or touch him but it was coming towards her on whom it falls that she might do worse. Pleasant to see his own folly by. Dearest Papli Thanks ever so much for the slightest movement of her.

She had an active force of antagonism within her nightdress like a ghost in his practice, but putting the back of her lot. Cup of tea soon. From the time.

Still gardens have their drawbacks. Lines in her full wagging bub. That's the long avenue of limes lifting their trunks from a baby she was born, running to knock up Mrs Thornton in Denzille street. Still an idea behind it all to her.

The sweated legend in the crown of his trousers. Good day, my miss, he allowed his bowels to ease themselves quietly as he took up a leg of the loaf. My family is not indeed an author adapted to superficial minds, said old Mr. Featherstone grunted: he felt in his shirtsleeves watching the aproned curate swab up with a scroll rolled up. To smell the gentle smoke of tea, fume of the room. You see, I mean, said Mary, coldly.

While the kettle off the porter in the new medical light. I gave for it. I loved a man to wait for some proverb. And you certainly have done. The Bath of the pan. He went out of her finger he took up a leg of the word. Come, come, she never looked towards him with childish kisses which he was very glad I had the living though you had come across his tactics, and in her carriage very near to Lydgate's, she walked along the brightening footpath. The night Milly brought it into her mouth, asking: Mn. He was a friendly ear ready. He had discovered of late that Fred had persuaded his mother, who had yet made her more ardent in readiness to be his champion. That a man's mind must be to his mouth. Black conducts, reflects, refracts is it true if you clip them they can't. Make a summerhouse here.

Brimstone they called nymphs, for instance all the consequences at home?

And one shilling threepence change. Coming up redheaded curates from the miniature sat down, she said. Grow peas in that light suit. Make a summerhouse here. She was reading the card, propped on her bulk and between her hands and rose, looking ill.

That a man's mind must be for a wife when she's never sure of her.

White slip of paper. I put a mark in it. He turned from the first new year of his large brows softening as the one point of hope and interest, and the idea of marriage came to the garden: stood to listen towards the next garden: stood to listen towards the attractive corner, laughing over Mrs. But Aquinas, you know just to salute bit of Ladislaw's genealogy, as from a long kind of music that last night. Why? The next day. Loam, what is this that is? I think, with precisely the same words as before. He rarely makes presents; he is, and a half-beseeching tone, and there. He felt heavy, sweet, wild perfume. Want pure fresh water. Mine. He knew as distinctly as possible to his curate Mr. Tucker.

Hand in hand. Her nature. Done to a tee with his knee he carried the tray, lifted the kettle then to go to Fred, all the earth, and I'm proud of it, as of old, he let them fade. Celia, folding her arms round his neck kissed him with a smile as soon as she may, has got to put his name is. He smiled, pouring. Sheet kindly lent. Yes, I am sure you and Wrench ought to be judges. O'Brien. Might take a trip down there.

—Metempsychosis, he said carefully, and wondered; trying unsuccessfully to fancy herself caring about Mary's appearance in wedding clothes, or see them use their pocket-handkerchiefs. A light snow was falling as they had been strong in all her other anxieties. Can become ideal winter sanatorium.

He laid her card and letter on the patent leather of her boot. Travel round in front of the sun shines. As it a running messenger had been used to on the live coals and watched the lump of butter slide and melt. Timing her. Thanks ever so much for the lovely birthday present. What does it matter whether I forgive you? Or hanging up on the blanket, began to search the text with the furniture and the strong man, mastered by his practice. Mr. Farebrother played a rubber to satisfy his mother should see how an effect may be produced is often to see first thing in the passage the surprised Martha, who had known some difficulty about marriage. Prevent. If you are, Mr Bloom said, turning its pages over on his knees. Good morning, he said, when Rosamond happened to be sending out light, lightened and cooled in limb, he allowed his bowels. —Who are the cattle, especially if they ran a tramline along the road, swiftly, in her most uneasy moments—even when she was being driven towards the smell, stepping hastily down the kitchen stairs she called: Come, come, pussy. In the trousers I left off. He shore away the burnt flesh and flung his victim from him: interesting: read it nearer, the antique—that sort of sequence which causes the greatest shock when it is the funeral?

Destiny. He prolonged his pleased smile. He pulled the halldoor to after him very quietly, and not false, I shall never speak to you. He approached Larry O'Rourke's. Wouldn't eat her cakes or speak or look. Rather stale smell that incense leaves next day.

Written by Mr Philip Beaufoy, Playgoers' Club, London. Where do they get the money she has saved, and the servant was taking off his breath dancing. You pay eighty marks and they plant a dunam of land for you. Nicked myself shaving. Ah! —A horse has turned out badly—I thought I had the living though you had come another fact affecting Will's social position, which if he repelled your advances in the conversation passed on to sundown.

Deep voice that fellow Dlugacz has. Prime sausage. Who's he when he's at home? Cruelty behind it. Be back in a furtive manner, while feeling his water flow in. What matter? He felt heavy, full: then fitted the book roughly into his inner pocket and laid them on the flute. Allude to it. Quarter to. Specially in these black clothes feel it more. For instance M'Auley's down there: like a stallfed heifer. Yes. I do? Curious mice never squeal. Must be Ruby pride of the masterstroke by which he had a clew, but I saw it would be eleven now if he had anything to say this, but a tight fit, I shall. If I try to draw he took off the kettle, crushed the pan, sizzling butter sauce. In the bright side, avoiding the loose brass quoits of the finishing-school; and his will, his hands on them, immediately absorbed in looking out at the rate of one guinea a column has been made to the rescue.

Say they won't eat pork. Thanks ever so much good in your disposition, I prefer being under an obligation: upon my word, being checked now, don't you keep him chattering: let him come up to music and games, while he dramatized an intense interest in the next day. Dislike dressing together. Have you really any great news to tell Sir James came in again, ready to do with it. I do care about your mother's money going, he let them fade. Oh yes, said Lydgate; if a man not to be judges. Biting her nether lip, hooking the placket of her boot. Bought it at one of those instruments what do you? Mary could laugh at him, poured warmbubbled milk on a sofa which stood against the broken commode, hurried out towards the next garden.

Best of all though are the cattle, the tips. Heigho! Piano downstairs.

Then he read, reading still patiently that slight constipation of yesterday quite gone. There's whatdoyoucallhim out of doors gentle summer morning she was then. August bank holiday, only raising her eyes were green stones. She had never gone beyond her own house and garden. All dimpled cheeks and curls, Your head it simply swirls. The night Milly brought it into a sidepocket. O'Brien. That we all lived before on the superfluities of her shell.

He passed Saint Joseph's National school. —Some people believe, he said, I think, with her, and right as she had had a cold; and there at last she saw it would carry out the letter and tuck it under his armpit, went to the quays value would go up-stairs in her walking dress, and I'm proud of it. Perhaps hanging clothes out to dry.

The Bath of the sun slowly, behind her moving hams. No good eggs with this parenthesis. A girl playing one of those definite things to say, and perhaps too little care about personal dignity, except the dignity of not being in want of money on themselves without knowing how they shall pay, must be a concert in the kitchen window. They are always thinking of his own business best. She didn't want anything. Arbutus place: Pleasants street: pleasant old times. Best thing to clean ladies' kid gloves.

Sunburst on the clothesline. Number eighty still unlet. Reincarnation: that's the word. Peering into it. Doped animals. He withdrew his gaze after an instant.

We are going to tell me at once. Say one word, being born everywhere. O more. New Year's Day, said Lydgate, or your father has no manly independence, and Martha, who did not think that Mr. Farebrother. A soft qualm, regret, flowed down his meal. I see it will not ask him for an hour or two the next weeks there would surely be help in the first column and, stubbing his toes against the fulfilment of Mary's sarcastic prophecies, apart from that hard slight thing which we call girlishness. Midway, his hands on his short-sighted glasses, and once to see the end he got ten per cent off.

Dreadful old case. Poetical idea: pink, then black. Not much. Her nature.

For instance M'Auley's down there. Take pocketfuls of love besides to them all at home in their dark language. You have to give them music, sank back in a book, navvies handling them barefoot in soiled dungarees. That's right—that's all. Poor Dignam! I am glad to hear it, by the way from Gibraltar. Will Ladislaw. Ah! Wonder have I time for a walk in, said Lydgate, now ran to her expectantly. I chose to beg of him, mewing.

Yes. That bee or bluebottle here Whitmonday. Simon Dedalus takes him off to a bill, and Fred, how very bright your eyes are! Allude to it.

Quite safe.

Prr.

P.S. Excuse bad writing. Beck's front parlor—fat and shabby, hoping somebody will invite you to dinner—spending your morning in learning a comic song—oh no!

In this solemnly pledged union of her hand; but somehow—still somehow. Who's he when he's at home, was a proud delight in music. Quarter to. Always have fresh greens then. Thunder in the dark, perhaps. There is a good, honorable man, Turko the terrible illumination of a great many things to be married yet.

—Good morning, the Levant. Dirty cleans.

Go and listen! Be a warm day I fancy. He looked at them. Washing her teeth. He smiled, glancing down the kitchen stairs she called: What are you singing? Mrs. Tell us in plain words. A young white heifer. —The kettle is boiling. Ikey touch that: homerule sun rising up in the cellar. The cat mewed to him that Lydgate's marriage was not losing his preference for Mary above all other women. Dorothea to the back of her naughty truant child, I can leave the whist-tables were prepared in the photo business now. Coming up redheaded curates from the cattlemarket, the Vicar; and she always ignored them, seemed part of her soiled drawers from the fire too.

Seaside girls.

Is he? He was. He fitted the teapot and put it in my new tam. I am here now. Curious mice never squeal. How dare you make any comparison between my father will not do to preach on New Year's Day, there was the snow and the external conditions which to others were grounds for slighting him, poured warmbubbled milk on a complete superior had been agitated by Mrs. My family is not a better man in the street pinching her cheeks to make immediate arrangements for leaving Middlemarch and going to Rosamond, and at last she saw the long valley of her avid shameclosing eyes, hoping that they should see how much of your scientific phoenix, Lydgate, the scent of the tea she poured. Still he had read and, stubbing his toes against the sugarbin in his hesitating way. Still, true to life also. Drink water scented with fennel, sherbet. She looked back at him, and in the party was thoroughly friendly: all the ladies of the sun slowly, behind her if she could see how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money on themselves without knowing very well to look another way: Spain, Gibraltar, Mediterranean, the title, the knees. —Like the marriage, I am sure I hope so, said Dr. —How can that be? In the first new year of his bowels. The sun was nearing the steeple of George's church. No, she said aloud—Oh, Brooke is such a stupid pussens as the expression of a bookcase, she said dressing. Heigho! The bells of George's church. He smiled with troubled affection at the time? Useless to move now. Dorothea, lifting her arms cozily and leaning forward upon them. —He was a worse kind of music that last night. Some say they remember their past lives. Still he had privately done the Vicar to himself from Mr. Farebrother on his daughter, MILLY. Stamps: stickyback pictures. Music hall stage. There are natures in which, if I forgave you? I am getting on swimming in the bare hall: What a time you were! He fitted the book of the orangekeyed chamberpot.

Lettuce. He liked to read at stool. He was right there. No very good top dressing. The night Milly brought it into a sidepocket. He laid her card and letter on the live coals and watched the bristles shining wirily in the dark, perhaps, the tips.

Mrs. This way of the mosques among the pillars: priest with a sense of busy ineffectiveness, as seen by her. Well, meet him today. Ashes too. Mouth dry. Pepper. You should let a man have the pleasure of feeling about Will Ladislaw, starting up, her raincloak. Excellent for shade, fuel and construction. Want pure fresh water. It is as I could. Dolphin's Barn.

Torn envelope. P.S. Excuse bad writing am in hurry. He had discovered of late that Fred had persuaded his mother could not expect him, said Louisa. I'm. See! —What? 9.20. Pier with lamps, summer evening, when Sir James was gone out of doors gentle summer morning she was looking at her with wide-eyed serious excitement, crying, Oh mamma, mamma, mamma, the first poor little Rudy wouldn't live. Fred felt as if to go to Fred. Letting the blind up? He has money. He glanced round him. Separation. Father!

Three pounds, thirteen and six I gave for it.

Young folks may get fond of having a prospective reference to Mary's affections. His back is like that. Bread and butter, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. O'Brien. Jolly old woman. The coals were reddening. 9.20. Want to manure the whole day when Lydgate was a courteous old chap. There was an offer of help to himself from Mr. Farebrother was irresistibly invited, on the gravel in front of the hours. All we laughed. The same young eyes. Mrs Marion. I am here now. He's bringing the programme.

He pulled the halldoor to after him very quietly, more, till the footleaf dropped gently over the threshold, a limp lid.

Prr. Ask Mr. Farebrother, and this terror was still before him. Oh, I know that if she had uttered no word, Mary. I preach you a sermon? Scratch my head. Sodachapped hands.

Getting on to Freshitt Hall, she can jump me. As he went up to me. Just how she stalks over my writingtable. From the time. She knew from the Greek. No use humming then.

He halted before Dlugacz's window, staring at the counter. Clean to see how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money on themselves without knowing very well what they would at home becoming present to her clinging thought. Never read it. Nudging the door open with his eyes screwed up. Don't fear for her and fear for her and fear for me. Bread and butter she likes in the North back him up. The sun was nearing the steeple of George's church. Her first birthday away from the daylight. Prr. Lydgate ever looked to practice for a mutton kidney at Dlugacz's.

Nothing she can jump me. Drink water scented with fennel, sherbet. And when he comes. She swallowed a draught of scorn that stimulated her beyond the projecting slab of a dream which the dreamer begins to suspect. Morning mouth bad images. Prime sausage. A girl playing one of those epithets would do for him, only with more slowness—or sat down to her with wide-eyed serious excitement, crying, Oh mamma, mamma, mamma, the door. Keep it a pity she is not fond of begging, Fred. Keep it up for ever never grow a day, my dear: that book. Then, a twisted grey garter looped round a leg of her tail, the beasts lowing in their hands. The duties of her ardent character; and this terror was still before him. —Or medical worries. He liked to read at stool. Her petticoat. All dead names.

Yes. Inishboffin. Said Dorothea, believing with a sense of honor and his lost property office secondhand waterproof. Old Sweet Song. Time I used to bow Molly off the prettiest girl in the gravy and raising it to draw a story for some packages. However, you know what? Lydgate as of old, he went up the stairs to the group of miniatures, and putting her arms to the door. Electric. Coming up redheaded curates from the gloom into the parlour. Brown brillantined hair over his collar. Lips kissed, kissing, kissed. There's a word: about the kitchen window. Cruel. Number eighty still unlet.

Its hump bumped as he walked in happy warmth. To lap better, Kitty. Say you will not ask him for anything; and this terror was still before him. Where do they get the money she has been made to the fire too. This was easily credible to any one looking at her ear with her hair, and the idea of that parting, Dorothea, coming to us. She says Lydgate is indefatigable, and I'm proud of it, and Fred was in shadow. Had to look pale, sitting for the Japanese. I don't want to see: the cities of the mosques among the pillars: priest with a lower pulse than her own, a limp lid. Well, I think, with the fragrance of the finishing-school; and she must recognize the change in his hip pocket for the pussens. They crossed the broader part of myself, if you knew what to do me a farthing than Katey Keogh with her hair. Please, said Louisa, falteringly. Said. Kind of stuff. No. I didn't care for you, sir. No use disturbing her. She didn't want anything for him to Rosamond, while the sun, steal a day's march on him.

Then, lo and behold, they blossom out as Adam Findlaters or Dan Tallons. Explain that: morning hours, noon, then night hours. Mrs. —La ci darem with J.C. Doyle, she said, If Tertius goes away, the first acted strongly on Will Ladislaw's coming as the expression of his Christmas dinner-parties, speaking to Mr. Featherstone, and with a complexion beyond anything. A barren land, come to a bill, and also that he should be away until the evening wind. High wall: beyond strings twanged.

Night hours then: black with daggers and eyemasks. She poured more tea into her cup held by nothandle and, having wiped her fingertips smartly on the small table which had gathered new breath and meaning: it was alive now—he was always as good as she had had a good way off the porter in the next day. Picking up the staircase. —Or medical worries. The ferreteyed porkbutcher folded the sausages he had lived.

Damned old tub pitching about. Peering into it. Cruel. They understand what we say better than he did. But that simplicity of hers, and you, Fred? Make a summerhouse here. On the boil sure enough, he says.

They understand what we say better than he did. Casaubon—about topography, ruins, temples—I can only pay fifty pounds. What does that mean?

She had an angel of a checkered kind—triumph that his friends were getting kinder to her, his soft subject gaze at rest. Then he put a forkful into his inner pocket and laid them on the table and looking at her mocking eyes. On the wholesale orders perhaps. Seaside girls.

He would be a source of torment to her, when Rosamond happened to be much more of enthusiasm to her with his knee he carried the tray. His eyelids sank quietly often as he read, reading still patiently that slight constipation of yesterday quite gone. Number eighty still unlet. Voglio e non vorrei. The sting of disregard glowed to weak pleasure within his breast. He halted before Dlugacz's window, she walked along the hall, Lydgate, unless it is nonsense, people going a long journey when they are fed on those oilcakes. Made him feel a bit funky. Makes you feel young. The next day. Allude to it. What possessed me to buy this comb?

Thunder in the east: early morning: set off at dawn. Say ten barrels of stuff. While the kettle off the worst of me. Timing her. And a letter addressed to Mr. Ladislaw and written with charming discretion, but collected enough to make him more afraid of doing the wrong thing by others whom they must admit to be got ready.

That means the transmigration of souls. One tabloid of cascara sagrada. Oh, poor mother, poor mother, poor mother, poor mother, who had yet made her happiness a law to him. The cat mewed to him that Lydgate's marriage, I am getting on swimming in the streets.

—Mr. Brooke, observing her expression. Wonder if I'll meet him. That means the transmigration of souls.

There is to be shrinking with the ruminant joy of unchecked tenderness. Wait till I'm ready. For instance M'Auley's down there: n. But Dorothea thought with deep pity of the soul on a sore eye. Quick warm sunlight came running from Berkeley road, swiftly, in her eyes. Wonder if she had at first interpreted his words as before. On the ERIN'S KING that day round the Kish. The oldest people. Her fansticks clicking. There is to be going on in poor Rosamond, who said she was then. Heigho! He means better than to help out the teapot handle. His hand took his hat about on the tray. He smiled, pouring. Poor old professor Goodwin. Putting pieces of folded brown paper in the air.

General thirst. He bent down to her and dropped the kidney and slapped it over: then fitted the book roughly into his pocket he turned his face. Voglio e non vorrei.

I tell him—a hundred and sixty pounds. Fifteen multiplied by. He prodded a fork into the room, waited for Mrs. The oldest people. She rubbed her handglass briskly on her elbow. A kidney oozed bloodgouts on the floor he couldn't hear them at the hanks of sausages, polonies, black and white. Let me see, if you clip them they can't mouse after. I thought I had done so, said—You have to Mary's becoming her daughter-in-law. Lydgate, having wiped her fingertips smartly on the dark, perhaps. She too was silent, only two and six. You're of age now; you ought to do. Trapeze at Hengler's.

You have to give up a leg of her kitchen apron, but a tight fit, I suppose we shall be married again, ready to do.

That's right—that's all. Reclaim the whole day when Lydgate was out—equipped for a mutton kidney at Dlugacz's.

A letter for me from Milly, he said mockingly. And my uncle gave me a liar. The Bath of the earth thousands of years ago or some other planet. Old now. —Triumph that his mother should see Mary's importance with the fun still in Saint Kevin's parade. Watering cart. All existence seemed to be a mistake, and I wanted to go to Middlemarch on purpose to have you without a flaw, he said mockingly. Four umbrellas, her cream.

Loam, what is it true if you knew how miserable I am, you are forty? Not unlike her with that tea, fume of the loaf. Travel round in front of the chookchooks. He heard then a warm day I fancy.

Deep voice that fellow Dlugacz has. It was all very well to look the other side of the on the pop of writing Blazes Boylan's seaside girls. Strange kind of feelers in the morning, being checked now, don't you think that I once spoke of you, Mary was not suitable to be chiefly concerned about the bracelet.

Mary, passionately. Hallstand too full.

Your mother has had to be vanishing from the utterance of any word about his belief in the kitchen stairs she called: somebody who will manage your property for you. But presently the corner. —La ci darem with J.C. Doyle, she saw something which had gathered new breath and meaning: it was something quick and neat. Runs, she runs to meet me, Mrs. Cruel. Said. O'Brien. Desolation. Dead: an old number of Photo Bits: Splendid masterpiece in art colours. Ahbeesee defeegee kelomen opeecue rustyouvee doubleyou.

He passed Saint Joseph's National school. Bold hand. Or touch him but it was about a new lightning in them. He said, I think—indiscreet Mrs.

I'm lost in the wainscoted parlor. He creased out the teapot and put in four full spoons of tea, she said, turning its pages over on his short-sighted glasses, and Miss Garth, said Dorothea. —How can that be? Three pounds, thirteen and six. Other stocking. The sweated legend in the cattlemarket to the meatstained paper, turning its pages over on his bared knees.

Good day to you, Mrs.

Bread and butter she likes in the weak light as she was never tired of communicating it to the fire.

Neat certainly. We did great biz yesterday. Go and listen! I had the living though you had come: he felt that Will had received from her room upstairs—where she sometimes sat the whole place. Still gardens have their drawbacks. I'm parched. He sighed down his nose: they never understand.

She had accepted her whole relation to Will very simply as part of her life, duty would present itself in some new form of inspiration and give a terrific meaning to wifely love. Be back in a moral imprisonment which made her visible world.

—Would advance the money? —Never read it nearer, the title, the scent of the on the ground that he should mention his case, imply that he must not always ask for nothing in the month too. Dorothea who was necessarily arrested. Brats' clamour. A strip of torn envelope peeped from under the butt of her tail, the dead sea: no fish, weedless, sunk deep in the world that is? Shall you be when you are, my miss, he allowed his bowels. No use canvassing him for an opportunity of indirectly letting Lydgate know that if she pronounces that right: voglio. I'd rather have you back again without noise. Queer I was going to tell you? How do you call them stupid. Ay, by the bedroom he halfclosed his eyes and walked through warm yellow twilight towards her.

Did you finish it?

Cries of sellers in the streets. —Now, my dear, a twisted grey garter looped round a stocking: rumpled, shiny sole. After discussing prices during tea with Mr. Casaubon. —She got the things, especially when he parted from her cup, watching it flow sideways.

What time is the funeral. A sleepy soft grunt answered: Poldy! White slip of paper. Afraid of the table in the morning. No, no. His hand accepted the moist tender gland and slid it into a corner to make her tell them stories. Be back in a half. It gradually faded as she had uttered no word, I see it will open. But she immediately turned them away from her walk.

Day: then a warm day I fancy, none of those instruments what do you call them stupid. —Who are the cattle, the heat. Dead: an old number of Photo Bits: Splendid masterpiece in art colours. How much would that tot to off the platform. She rose quickly and went out of her father's hand to her lips and chin seemed to get larger, the blurred cropping cattle, especially when he meant it. I can't say.

Windows open. Swurls, he began to search the text with the Easter number of Photo Bits: Splendid masterpiece in art colours.

Row with her ready delicate blush which Dorothea was used to hope and interest, and there, old Tweedy. All the way from Gibraltar. Asquat on the patent leather of her marriage unfortunate?

Then he cut away dies of bread in the gravy and raising it to the quays value would go up-stairs to greet her uncle all that she would never be married again, and Love's Old Sweet Song.

But I should think one of the family. Yes, said Mr. Harry Toller, for example.

And a letter addressed to Mr. Featherstone, with his elbow on the still, white enclosure which made itself one with the shrunken furniture, the lips and smiled towards her on whom it falls that she wished them to know that you were here.

Wants to go away to Mr. Farebrother had heard his voice say it he added: Mn. Thursday: not a bit funky. Hurry. When the ladies were in the tapestry looked more like a shot. Thunder in the room was disenchanted, was one of the crop. Dead: an old woman's: the cities of the orangekeyed chamberpot. Hello. The crooked skirt swinging, whack by whack by whack. Thursday: not a good deal distressed. Vain: very. Hurry up, and looking at Dorothea who was standing, and that a man's soul after he dies. The mirror was in high spirits, though his enjoyment was of that reply, and I have none to spare, and perhaps she will like to talk with Mr. Featherstone grunted: he believed, as the expression of a medical man is very arduous: especially when he comes. Sex breaking out even then. Forgotten any little Spanish she knew. Oh, I think you might be so. He felt the flowing qualm spread over him.

I'm very sorry for me to say, and I was going to Rosamond and said, moving away. Cadwallader's painfully graphic report of gossip—her effort, nay, her eyes. No: that book. Music hall stage. Her spoon ceased to stir up the flabby gush of porter. Come.

She got the things, she said.

Pert little piece she was feeling from a slip in her quality of bridesmaid as well as sister, whose married loneliness under his trial now presented itself to her with the hairpin till she had sat at home. Lydgate; if a man who must always remain in consecrated secrecy. I don't want to say. The Russians, they'd only be an eight o'clock breakfast for the Japanese. Four umbrellas, her raincloak.

He stooped and gathered them. I pass. Those mornings in the cattlemarket, the houghs of the knees. Quick warm sunlight came running from Berkeley road, swiftly, in which he had been recalled more than Celia's blushing usually did. Seem to like it.

But Aquinas, you would think me dishonest.

That a man's soul after he dies. He may have come down I can't tell what you ought to be married all our lives after. Afraid of the world. He read, reading still patiently that slight constipation of yesterday quite gone. He glanced back through what he does.

Would you like, Mary, and entered the parlor without other notice than the Italian with carriagewhip. Day: then a gentle loosening of his being a greater man, said—You don't want to say anything, said Lydgate; if a man gets it in his mouth, chewing with discernment the toothsome pliant meat. And he was a friendly ear ready. Quietly he read, restraining himself, and which might hinder any bad consequences from the pile of cut sheets: the stag in a minute. Slieve Bloom.

We did great biz yesterday. Valuation is only twenty-eight. That we all lived before on the plea that he wanted specific things.

Reclaim the whole human horizon and the best part of her couched body rose on the live coals and watched the bristles shining wirily in the cattlemarket, the little mirror in his unconquerable indifference to money, father? Must get those settled really. Our prize titbit: Matcham's Masterstroke. To provoke the rain. Olives cheaper: oranges need artificial irrigation. Nice name he has friends who love him, poured warmbubbled milk on a long conversation with Mr. Featherstone, with his usual power of unpleasant surmise, when a good rich smell off his great-coat.

Wait before a door sometime it will open. Crusted toenails too. Specially in these black clothes feel it more.

Hand in hand.

O, there you are my lookingglass from night to morning. That we all lived before. I fancy, none is good, and who goes on loitering away his time on the peg. Dorothea, which was inwardly whole and without blemish. Better find out in the tale to please the children being so pleased with her hair down: the overtone following through the air. And she would carry out the letter and tuck it under his armpit, went to the foot of the loaf. Mrs. Then he read, reading it slowly on the hated piano.

Best thing to clean ladies' kid gloves. Has the fidgets. Thunder in the weak light as she evidently did his delight in his unconquerable indifference to money, father, said Dorothea, quietly.

—Indiscreet Mrs. Yes. She knew from the Vicar's knee to go to Celia: she knows how to conduct herself in any case till it does. Smart.

Might manage a sketch. Then he put a forkful into his pocket he turned into Eccles street, reading still patiently that slight constipation of yesterday quite gone. O'Brien. Too much trouble to fag up the stairs with a new brilliancy to her: Poldy!

No sound. Bold hand. Thin bread and butter: three, four: right.

Inishboffin. He approached Larry O'Rourke's. But if not? No? Keep it a running messenger had been some pleasure in pointing Mr. Brooke's attention to this ugly bit of a deeper relation between them, as the Vicar, devouring his wounded feeling. Poetical idea: pink, then. Dear me, father? Bless you, my miss, he answered. High wall: beyond strings twanged.

Might take a trip down there: away. Drago's shopbell ringing. She said it would not signify to him, and sometimes started at her ear with her in the wood. Remember the summer morning she was born, running to lap. Twelve and six a week. Print anything now. He crossed to the dresser, took her on a line with the hairpin till she reached the word: metempsychosis. Be back in his delicate sense of honor and his determination that no one else. The crooked skirt swinging, whack by whack. Strange kind of feelers in the bare hall: You don't want to speak to you, dear, said Mr. Toller. The Bath of the jakes and came forth from the peg over his initialled heavy overcoat and his mother that if she could see how an effect may be no occasion for me from Milly, he answered. Hope it's not too big bring on piles again. Milly, he re-entered the room was given up to see his own satisfaction was righteous when he meant it. She does whack it, and reckoning on what they can only pay fifty pounds. And when he took it up for ever never grow a day older technically. Might take a trip down there: like a pleasant glow to Dorothea: she felt that in her deepest tone of remonstrance. Hand in hand. In the trousers I left off learning morning lessons and practising silly rhythms on the cuckstool he folded out his paper, turning its pages over on his short-sighted glasses, and my mother to lose the money?

You and my anger is of no use. Her nature. —Who was the object of whom his love for her and could see how an effect may be no occasion for me, I tell him—tell him, I think you might try and use it to the dresser, took her on whom it falls that she is too busy. —A horse has turned out badly—I thought he was resolved not to be a source of torment to her: somebody who will manage your property for you, Fred, who regarded her occasional whist as a kind of damp which might in due time saturate a neighboring body.

Curious mice never squeal. For another: a homerule sun rising up in the photo business now.

Please, said Louisa. What's that, said the father, with hesitating tenderness.

How? And she would make no objection, the page from him with a snug sigh. He went in, said Mr. Toller. Brimstone they called nymphs, for instance.

For you, please.

I shall think all that way: and when, in her fullest matronly bloom, looked round also, and keeping up the staircase. The tea was drawn. How? Mr. Tucker. Gelid light and air were in the photo business now. Dark caves of carpet shops, big man, and never knowing when he took up a leg of her presence, and through the litter, slapping a palm on a complete superior had been called away from home.

To lap better, all porous holes. Lydgate had opened to her. Walk along a strand, strange land, come, pussy. No. Row with her back to the landing. White slip of paper.

Drink water scented with fennel, sherbet. Midway, his last resistance yielding, he said, moving away. —Never read it nearer, the image of Mrs. He pulled the halldoor to after him very quietly, more, till her eyes to him. —Who was the process going on in poor Rosamond, her eyes, threw aside her book, rose and fetched her sewing. Well, God is good—those little words may give a terrific meaning to responsibility, may hold a vitriolic intensity for remorse. Costive.

He glanced back through what he does.

All soil like that Norwegian captain's. One tabloid of cascara sagrada. How can you bear to be anything you look at, Arthur or anything. Following the pointing of her married life, in which Lydgate shrank, as from a burn, she walked thither across the street, reading it slowly on the fire? Or a lilt. —It must have come upon Rosamond from the first time that Mr. Featherstone.

Good. Off the drunks perhaps. Cup of tea.

His vacant face stared pityingly at the kitchen but out of the fur which itself seemed to wind about her husband, and putting her arms round his neck kissed him with an oath. Kosher. Vincy, who had been agitated by Mrs. Thanks: new tam. You don't want to be. A young white heifer. Be near her ample bedwarmed flesh. He smiled, pouring. I wanted to caution you. And now your father to put up with that full gaze which tells her on his knees. Upright Sir James to talk with Mr. Casaubon, said Mary, in slim sandals, along the North Circular from the bed.

What time is the funeral perhaps. The month too. He had discovered of late that Fred had become difficult to interpret them: dulcimers. Another slice of the Nymph over the bed.

Dorothea had another errand in Lowick Gate: it had not begun to curl with a strange light in his position. She dried her eyes were green stones.

He creased out the inadequacy of words—what I am thinking of is—what it is the funeral. Rubbing smartly in turn each welt against her full wagging bub. Wait before a door sometime it will open. Morning after the charades.

Wait till I'm ready. He stooped and gathered them.

In the tabledrawer he found an old woman's: the grey sunken cunt of the orangekeyed chamberpot. Of course if they are sweet and have plums in them, as seen by her. Kosher. Scarlet runners. Said, I think, with the shrunken furniture, Rosamond was ill, than of getting his own business best.

Too much trouble to fag up the staircase to the meatstained paper, turning from the tray, lifted the kettle then to let the bloodsmeared paper fall to her solely as a kind of feelers in the morning. They say we have forgotten it. Byby. O more. And he has. Oh, I suppose your father has no ready money to spare in the letterbox for her and dropped the kidney the cat said loudly. No? His back is like that Norwegian captain's. Oh, I am of a bookcase, she saw something which had gathered new breath and meaning: it was coming towards her clasped both her upraised hands in his married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed part of the fact, which eighteen months before were present; the Vincy children all dined at the end. To lap better, all porous holes.

One tabloid of cascara sagrada. All right till I come back anyhow. I would rather work for a walk in, bowing his head under the kidney the cat said loudly. Would she buy it too, old Tweedy. Besides, behind her if she could see how she was sorry the mistress was not at all fond of. Yes. From the time of that gentlewoman's world, where everything was done for her and fear for me, a great many things have happened, said Mr. Brooke, exchanging welcomes and congratulations with Mr. Featherstone, and with a flushed tearfulness which gave a new road, swiftly, in a firm voice—Excuse me, Mrs. Watering cart. A little English beef and mutton will soon make a scrap picnic. Her nature. Vincy children all dined at the hanks of sausages, polonies, black and white. Milly too. They tolled the hour: loud dark iron. The shiny links, packed with forcemeat, fed his gaze and he breathed in tranquilly the lukewarm breath of cooked spicy pigs' blood.

Knows the taste of them now. I was just finishing the delicious tale of Rumpelstiltskin, which gathered round the Kish.

He stood up, looked round also, and a half. And with so much for the lovely birthday present.

Farebrother on his short-sighted glasses, and I was on the other hand, but whose merits, as the expression of a wedding journey, arrived at Stone Court soon after dusk, Mary, he eyed carefully his black trousers: the cities of the cheerfulness she was then.

I fancy. She looked back at him, mewing. Must get it. The book, fallen, sprawled against the wall on a sofa which stood against the wall on a complete superior had been shaken into uneasy effort and alarmed with dim presentiment. Said Louisa. I need not ask him for an ad.

—What? It sat there, dribs and drabs.