a something of conjecture
she had something strange and unaccountable in her look
a something of incongruity between the dress and ₁
a something of diffidence not to be defined — unaccountable !
strangely unaccountable ! ₂ the levity of fashion, and a something of
contempt, as she viewed the wild flowers. ₃
It had only been a thought-of thing,
a something of conjecture, or even of planning,
a thing aloof it had been, but now — ₄
the picture gains on you — a something of ₅ catching
from its look a something of, and sometimes, not ₆
a something of more tenderness however it might be, ₇
at all events, a something of ₈ what is much easier to feel, than describe,
a something of ₉ resoluteness Lifting, “Listen to the silence now —
how that little clock sweeps out its beats upon” ₁₀
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