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After he had disappeared Jehiel turned to the tree and leaned his forehead against it. He was so still he seemed a part of the great pine. He stood so till the piercing chill of evening chilled him throgh, and when he looked again about him it was after he had lived his life all through in a brief and bitter review.
according to the sex of the individual who wears it -- for in Germany allthe women either male heads or sexless ones; a persons nose, lips,shoulders, breast, hands, and toes are of the female sex; and his hair,ears, eyes, chin, legs, knees, heart, and conscience havent any sex at all.
As he passed the door to the rooms of the Ladies Auxiliary Society he noticed that it was ajar, and saw through the crack that there was a sleeping figure on the floor near the stove -- a boy about sixteen. When Jehiel stepped softly in and looked at him, the likeness to his own sister struck him even before he recognized the lad as his great-nephew, the son of the child he had helped his sister to care for all those years ago.
first time what the man has been talking about; and after the verb -- merelyby way of ornament, as far as I can make out -- the writer shovels in HABEN
The boy tried to speak, but he raised his voice. No, I couldnt stand it all over again. Twould cut in to the places where Ive got calloused. Seeing through the others stupor the beginnings of an irresolute opposition, he flung himself upon him in a strange and incredible appeal, crying out, Oh, you must! You got to go! commanding and imploring in the same incoherent sentence, struggling for speech, and then hanging on Nathaniels answer in a sudden wild silence. It was as though his next breath depended on the boys decision.
in a foreign land and a far country -- eine Anblick solche als in die