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It may have been partly because he lacked the instinct or perhaps the initiative for active suicide, and was too proud to starve at the expense or encumbrance of other people. But there was another cause, which of itself sufficed to keep him going. I may have said or given the impression that he utterly despaired of ever getting anything worth having out of life.
I should amuse you, perhaps," added the licentiate, with a smile, "I think I should amuse you if I were to explain my notion of a prince. We who have studied in the closet, no longer, in this age, propose ourselves for active service. The paths, we have perceived, are incompatible. I would not have a student on the throne, though I would have one near by for an adviser.
You know that Mege is interpellating the government." The new comer started slightly: "An interpellation!" said he. "All right, all right, I'll go to it." Pierre was looking at him. He was about fifty years of age, short of stature, thin and active, still looking young without a grey hair in his black beard.
The agitation and disorder of the hour had introduced into the assembly several of the more active and accredited citizens not of right belonging to it; but they sat, in silent discipline and order, on long benches beyond the table crowded by the corporate officers.
It had a way of hesitating, as though Sylvia were not sure whether she would smile or not; and when she had made up her mind, it dimpled her cheeks and transfigured her whole face, and revealed in her tenderness and a sense of humor. Her complexion was pale, but clear, her figure was slender and active, but without angularities, and she was of the middle height.
In this scene, matters that have little reference to the active pursuits of mankind, are made subjects of inquiry, and the exercise of sentiment and reason itself becomes a profession.
We followed hotly, but she was out of the yard, over a wall, and into a side lane, almost before we knew it. Then a good chase began. Priscilla had a long start of us, for we had bungled at the wall, but we were bound to catch her. I was a good runner, and Rectus was light and active, although I am not sure that he could keep up the thing very long; but the two yellow-legs surprised me.
Any one seeing that woman's face would have said that artists had failed in their conceptions of Mephistopheles. "My dear sir," she began, with a patronizing air, "I have long since given up active business of any kind. What I have come to you to do, I have undertaken, for the sake of my dear nephew, whom I love more than I could love a son of my own.
The lesson of the 'angel's food' eaten in the wilderness is that men are fed by the power of God's expressed and active will, for that is the meaning of 'the word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God, in whatever fashion they get their food. The gift of it is from Him; its power to nourish is from Him.
The friends of Blaine were still numerous and active, and they wished to see their favorite in the executive chair.
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