Sunday, March 24, 2013

only smiled the more

She was now in a sweet secluded valley, three miles long, on which high stony hills, everywhere walling it in, frowned in vain. She only smiled the more!
(August 1852; and Scenes and Adventures)

"But I would only smile the more, while my wife indignantly chided."
The Apple-Tree Table

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