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He, the king of men, was the bond; she, the cast-off minion, she, this Jehane Saint-Pol, was the free. So God, making war upon the great, rights the balances of this world. But he was extraordinarily gentle with her; he gripped himself and throttled the animal close. Gaining grace as he went, his heart throve upon its own blood. Balm was shed on his burning face, he sucked peace as it fell.
"Why then am I devoid of all to live That manly comforts to a man can give? To live untaught religion's soothing balm, Or life's choice arts; to live unknown the calm Of soft domestic ease; those sweets of life, The duteous offspring, and th' endearing wife? "To live to property and rights unknown, Not e'en the common benefits my own!
Here, in spring, the plains are covered with that deluge of floral bloom, which makes California seem a paradise. Here there are the same picturesque groves, the same rank fields of wild oats clothing the mountain-sides, the same aromatic herbs impregnating the air with balm, and above all, the same blue, cloudless days and dewless nights.
Moonlight and a soft wind always moved him with a feeling of indefinite and shapeless tenderness, as elusive as the echo of a song. There was a soothing quality in the night for him, which laved his bruised sensibilities like balm. He expanded under its influence; the tumult of his breast began to subside.
Certain it is at any rate that he now often brought himself balm by the question, with the rich consciousness of yesterday's letter, "Well, what can I do more than that what can I do more than tell her everything?" To persuade himself that he did tell her, had told her, everything, he used to try to think of particular things he hadn't told her.
You ordered me about as if I were a little girl. I didn't want to keep still, as you told me to; I wanted to scream. And I wanted to faint, too, but you wouldn't let me. I had never seen you that way before. I didn't know you could be like that. That is what surprises me so. That is why I said you were so different." Here was balm for wounded pride. Albert's chin lifted.
Yet for the moment there was a certain balm in the idea that she too her mother's daughter with her Merritt blood could be unlucky. Marcella went about all day under a vague sense of impending trouble the result, no doubt, of that intolerable threat of her father's, against which she was, after all, so defenceless.
I saw both bottles; and on one of them was an engraving, representing a young man, presumed to be gray-headed, standing in his night-dress in the middle of his chamber, and with closed eyes applying the Elixir to his head, with both hands; while on the bed adjacent stood a large bottle, conspicuously labeled, "Balm of Paradise."
So he began to laugh, and the sound reaching the ears of the others, appeared to act on their excited minds like soothing balm. Gradually the whole lot slackened their pace until they were going at a jog trot; which in turn settled down to a walk. Finally Bobolink came to a full stop. "Whee! let's get a few decent breaths, fellows!" he managed to gasp.
"It was very thoughtful of Loftus not to waken any one up to give him breakfast," said Catherine. Her mother again glanced at her with a shadow of approval on her worn face. Artful Kitty had made this speech on purpose; she knew that any praise of Loftus was balm to her mother. After breakfast Mrs. Bertram showed rather unwonted interest in her daughters' plans.
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