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But the larger man, with sudden scorn for this caution, brimmed his own glass, and poised it swiftly. "Here's how!" and down it went. Ordinarily red-eye heated his blood and made his brain dizzy, it loosened his tongue and numbed his lips, but today it left him cool, confident, and sharpened his vision until he felt that he could see through the minds of every one in the room.
Most of us feel that the national crisis that lies just ahead calls in a singular degree for new and creative ideas and brain paths, both for our leaders and our people.
Something like that, I think, has been my experience. Since I began to read and know, I have always longed for some ideal task, in which I might feel myself the heart and brain of a multitude some social captainship, which would come to me as a duty, and not be striven for as a personal prize. You have raised the image of such a task for me to bind our race together in spite of heresy.
When the thought of the dog was not present there was merely a trail of vacuity in his mind like the swaths of trodden weeds in a forest; however, when it came with regularity it vexed him and seemed to make an enormous rut or trench in his brain with its periodic passing, into which all his other embryonic thoughts, as nascent and inchoate as they were, fell.
He watched the effect of it on the Khedive; but Ismail had seen all this before, and he took it in the stride. This was not sufficient. Sadik racked his brain to think who in the palace or in official life might be made the scapegoat, upon whom the dark spirit in the heart of the Khedive might be turned.
"Some men are only physical cowards," he went on. "But you have almost made a moral coward of me. Yes, you had nearly made me afraid to be the man I must be, if I am to do my work." "There are other fields " He would not let her argue that. "There is no other field for me at present. This is my work and while I continue in it men who oppose me with their brains I will fight with my brain.
But the walls were smooth and even, and presented nothing whereon she could fix her grasp. Her brain reeled, and for a few minutes she sat motionless, in dumb, inert despair.
"It was wounded love, not anger, against you, my master, that tortured me into this rash language. I came to tell you of L of our child; she is very, very ill." "What, Lina? poor child, no wonder she is heart-broken. Heaven knows I would have kept this miserable secret from her, but for Ralph! Where is she now?" "In my own house, raving with brain fever!" "And have you told her all?"
He looked behind him and about him, hoping, and yet fearing, that something would break the stillness. The voices still seemed to ring on in his ears; but that sudden silence, when he knocked at the door, affected him far more unpleasantly than the voices, and put strange thoughts in his brain thoughts he did not like or approve.
"A good sleep will clear your brain," I remarked, "and you will need all your wits in the morning." Walking briskly to and fro in order to keep myself warm, I listened intently for the sound of hoofs. Perhaps three hours had passed the time seemed an age when clambering softly from the gully and advancing to the roadside I stretched myself flat on the grass.
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