The excerpt reveals that the narrator is preoccupied and focused on something important, as they mention being busy with earnest endeavors. The fact that they do not mention the name of "her" during this time suggests a shift in their relationship dynamics and potential avoidance or discomfort in discussing the individual.
The riots were terrible, but the ensuing police response made things even worse.
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Thomas Burch has written: 'A discourse on the origin of civil government, and the obligations of a people to obedience. ... With a serious and earnest address to the inhabitants of Great-Britain, in reference to the ensuing election. Preached at Smarden in Kent, July 22, 1753. By Thomas Burch' 'Remarks on Mr. Allen's notion of the Man-Jesus'
later, next, subsequently, succeeding, ensuing
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He abolished Parliament and lost the ensuing civil war it caused.
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Importance of Being Earnest, The (1895), a play by Oscar http://www.answers.com/topic/oscar-wilde. Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff both pretend to be called Ernest in order to secure the affections of Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. The girls are led to think first that they are engaged to the same man and then that neither is really Ernest. The ensuing confusions are resolved when it is discovered that Jack was indeed so named. The play derives force from a brilliant fabric of epigram and paradox.
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The main symbols are coats that represent the Bible.