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He felt carried along by a mob. The sun spread disclosing rays, and, one by one, regiments burst into view like armed men just born of the earth. The youth perceived that the time had come. He was about to be measured. For a moment he felt in the face of his great trial like a babe, and the flesh over his heart seemed very thin. He seized time to look about him calculatingly.

Hugh noticed with a thrill of excitement that among them were tiger and leopard skins. Directly opposite the entrance stood a rough and peculiarly hewn stone, resembling in a general way the form of a man, colossal, diabolical. "An idol," whispered Lady Tennys in awed tones. "Perhaps it would be wisdom on our part to kneel before the thing," said Hugh calculatingly.

She had loved him and she had left him, deliberately, calculatingly, left him and love, for the world, the flesh and the devil tempted by a fortune untimely directed to her hands. He did not mind about the books. Doubtless they were well enough in their way, a source of practical knowledge.

He looked calculatingly over the table and asked, in tones that somehow seemed to tell of injury, of personal affront: "What you having supper for at this time of night?" His grandfather regarded him now not unkindly, while Clytie seemed confused. "It's more'n long past midnight!" he insisted. "Huh! it ain't only a quarter past seven," put in his superior brother.

Prudential acts, he declares, are obviously good in their consequences; they therefore deserve no praise; whatever one does calculatingly, with view to future results, has no moral worth. And on the other hand, whatever good acts one does instinctively, pushed on by animal impulses, including love and sympathy, deserve no praise and have no moral worth.

But he had dragged it in, protesting that it should not influence the case, yet coldly, calculatingly intending it to do so.

As his eyes calculatingly swept stream and hills, they suddenly caught a flutter of white through the trees, and it was coming down the winding path which led across the hills to Hollis Creek. As it emerged more from the concealment of the leaves his blood gave a leap, for the flutter of white was a gown inclosing the unmistakable figure of Miss Josephine Stevens.

Around the office and along to the street of the cottages crowds were chattering, gesticulating; Ines fancied the foreign jabberers inclined to threaten. Howell Edwards at the door of his office watched them calculatingly. The lord of their destinies passed in with him, leaving Gower to study the features of the men, and Ines to reckon the chance of a fray.

She flushed, but gazed back at him without flinching. "Well," he continued, "I reckon you'll get your wish th' maverick is goin' to run against th' Vermejo horse!" "The Fourth of July is a week from next Wednesday," Charley said calculatingly. "The Rodeo starts on Tuesday, the roping and bucking finals come on Thursday. That makes the big race come Friday a week from next Friday, ain't it?"

"I wouldn't want to have my peculiar style of beauty spoiled by smallpox marks," said the ensign, with a smile on his homely, winning face. "And I've a hunch that that ship is not a lucky find for this ship." "Then I've a hunch that your hunch is a wrong one," said Ives. "How long would you guess that craft to be?" They were now within a mile of the schooner. Edwards scrutinised her calculatingly.