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Then he calmed down suddenly, joked with the twins over the table and told Miss Bird that she was getting younger every day. He also gave Mrs. Clinton her marching orders. "I think you had better go up, Nina," he said, "and see what the young monkey has been after.
Smith had related the story in the fastness of his office, and in wholly different guise from that which it wore next morning in the columns of his newspaper. And Ryan, listening, had slowly calmed, calmed to the still fury of implacable hate. But he and Smith had quarreled violently. He was for publishing the story of his taking off in type as black as the dastardly act.
He selected to go to the chateau, a day when it rained hard enough to fill the tubs of all the housewives, and arrived without meeting a soul, in sight of Cande, and looking like a drowned dog, stepped bravely into the courtyard, and took shelter under a sty-roof to wait until the fury of the elements had calmed down, and placed himself boldly in front of the room where the owner of the chateau should be.
Helpless in the sweeping tide of his mighty passion, he poured forth his words, pleading as for his life. By an inexplicable psychic law the exhibition of his passion calmed hers. The sight of his weakness brought her strength.
One would have supposed that the deliberate solemnity of these preparations would have calmed the animosity of Strafford's enemies, and led them to be satisfied at last with something less than his utter destruction. But this seems not to have been the effect.
The heroic spirit of William the Silent lived again in the frail body of his descendant. Without a moment's hesitation he accepted the hard and thankless task imposed upon him. With wise counsel and brave words he calmed and revived the drooping hearts of his countrymen. He rejected with scorn the offers both of Charles and Lewis to seduce him from his allegiance.
And in this case how wonderfully separate factors, who think themselves quite independent, are all handled like pawns on a chessboard by Him who 'makes the wrath of man to praise Him, and girds Himself with the remainder thereof! Little did the fiery zealots who were eager to plunge their daggers into Paul's heart, or the lad who hastened to tell him the secret he had discovered, or the Roman officer who equally hastened to get rid of his troublesome prisoner, dream that they were all partners in bringing about one God-determined result the fulfilment of the promise that had calmed Paul in the preceding night: 'So must thou bear witness also at Rome.
She had calmed down while he talked. Now she wiped her eyes on her veil, while the last convulsions of sobbing shook her now and then, like the withdrawing rumble of thunder after a storm. "I'll put out the light, Ollie," said he. "You go on to bed." "Oh, Joe, Joe!" said she in a little pleading, meaningless way; a little way of reproach and softness.
When he found that the traitor was here, and that he had persecuted the two orphans, even as he persecuted their mother to the death but that now he had become a priest I thought the marshal would have gone mad with indignation and fury. He wishes to go in search of the renegade. With one word I calmed him.
Sawyer, that her happiness depends upon him, then I will sign it. At present I am her protector." The banker snorted, but calmed himself. "You a protector a mediator! Sir, you continue to insult me." "He ought to be kicked out of his own office," Sawyer swore. "Yes, but it would take a mule, rather than a mule driver. But I don't want anything more to say to you.
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