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Intelligence was immediately sent to the tzar of the confinement of his daughter in-law, and of her dangerous situation. He hastened to her chamber. The interview was short, but so affecting that the tzar, losing all self-control, burst into an agony of grief and wept like a child.
But we could have an administration always in close touch with the Congress if the Cabinet members were in attendance when matters affecting their several departments were under discussion and action.
Laying aside his hat, he ran directly to the house of Sophy's father, and, affecting an air of surprise and consternation, to which he had never before been subject, thundered at the door with such an alarming knock, as in a moment brought the whole family into the hall.
The remembrance of his family, friends, and other connections, left behind, which he never expected to see any more, were the principal cause of his dejection and grief." Many cases, equally affecting, might be here mentioned; but one more instance, which fell under the notice of a person of credit, will suffice.
Accordingly, the new Secretary of Defense and his civilian and military associates will, in the future, recommend such changes in present laws affecting our defense activities as may be necessary to clarify responsibilities and improve the total effectiveness of our defense effort. This effort must always conform to policies laid down in the National Security Council.
Yet so resolute a man must make the strong personality of which he was proud tell in some way. How, then, should he assert his superiority and hold his own? Only by affecting a brutal scorn of everything said and done unless it was said and done by John Gourlay. His lack of understanding made his affectation of contempt the easier. A man can never sneer at a thing which he really understands.
From chivalry-pieces they became true cavalry-pieces, which certainly deserved to be acted by horses rather than by men. It would certainly please were but the words all away. The next place in the public favour has been held by the Family Picture and the Affecting Drama, two secondary species.
I wonder if sometimes a starved, crippled, agonized human body and soul does not cry out, "Why, O man, O woman why, being what I am, have you suffered me to be?" Physiologists and psychologists agree that the influences affecting the child begin before birth.
'I must apply to the hemperor for leave of absence, said Sam. Mary sighed again the letter was so very affecting. 'Good-bye! said Sam. 'Good-bye, rejoined the pretty housemaid, turning her head away. 'Well, shake hands, won't you? said Sam. The pretty housemaid put out a hand which, although it was a housemaid's, was a very small one, and rose to go. 'I shan't be wery long avay, said Sam.
I collected all my resolution to support me in this affecting scene. I saw my dear lord in extremity. The beauties of his youth were all decayed; yet his eyes, though languid, retained unspeakable sweetness and expression.
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