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"Where are you going?" "I start for Canada next week." She turned deadly white, and put out her hands, feeling blindly after support. Ian started to his feet. "We have tired you out!" he said in alarm, and took her by both hands to place her in the chair. She did not hear him.
Abashed, shamed to realize he had forgotten she was half nude, he blindly tore off his coat, blindly folded it around her. "Lin! Lin!" she cried. "Lucy Oh! are y-you " he replied, huskily. "I'm not hurt. I'm all right." "But that wretch, Joel. He " "He'd killed his father just a minute before you came. I fought him! Oh! ... But I'm all right.... Did you "
The boy is half sullen, half discontented, yet he, too, seems to obey his uncle blindly. The three of them seem to be his slaves. It's a thing you can't live in the house without noticing." "It seems to be a cheerful sort of household," Kinsley observed. "You read the papers, I suppose, Dick?" he asked, after a moment's pause. "On and off, the last few days.
Jenkins, anxious lest her features might betray her, fearing what might be thought if any one saw her rushing on so blindly, slackened her pace to the aimless gait of an afternoon walk, stopping here and there. The light materials of the dresses spoke of summer, of the country; a thin skirt for the sandy paths of the parks, gauze-trimmed hats for the seaside, fans, sunshades.
Perhaps nothing concerning the Russian war is more commonly repeated than the statement that we were tricked into it by the Emperor of the French for his own selfish ends, and in his desire to be received into the brotherhood of sovereigns; that our ministers were blindly following the lead of Louis Napoleon, and were guilty of a very gross blunder.
They could only look at each other, dumb with their own helplessness, and wait. How long this horror of expectation lasted no one knew, but at last, as if from the very mouth of hell, Tom Davis came, staggering and swaying, his singed coat still rolled about his head, and his hands stretched blindly out. John Ward ran towards him, and even the cripple pressed forward to take his hand.
He trusted to their own good sense to defeat the effect of those arts which might be employed to inflame or mislead their minds, and was sensible that a government could be in no danger while it retained the attachment and confidence of its subjects attachment, in this instance, not blindly adopted; confidence not implicitly given, but arising from the conviction of its excellence and the experience of its blessings.
Lady Gower looked at her rather doubtfully and smiled. "I wish you would bring him to see me, Helen," she said; "I think I should like your friend very much. From what you tell me of him I doubt if you will find many such men waiting for you in this country. Our men marry for reasons of property, or they love blindly, and are exacting and selfish before and after they are married.
The train rolled into the station; passengers stepped in and out; doors slammed, and the guard had already placed the whistle in his mouth, when Captain Crippen, breathing stentorously, came stumbling blindly on to the platform, and was hustled into a third class carriage. "Close shave that, sir," said the station-master as he closed the door.
France, with Paris and all her children still rushes blindly, madly on; defies the powerful coalition, Austria, England, Spain, Prussia, all joined together to stem the flow of carnage, defies the Universe and defies God! Paris this September 1793! or shall we call it Vendemiaire, Year I. of the Republic? call it what we will!
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