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My interpreter broke in volubly with the statement that Les Etats Unis were twenty times the size and had twice the power of Great Britain, and he and the little Pasha were both shouting together when, as Providence would have it, Mr Fawcett, the British Consul-General, was announced. His presence calmed the storm at once and he sternly bade Ibrahim to obey the "firman," on peril of his own head.
His brief rest had refreshed him and the cool evening breeze, bearing a shower in its keeping, calmed his aching head and feverish body. Martin noticed how white and haggard the boy looked and some instinct warned him to hide the whip behind his back. When he reached Sandy the two stepped back to where a log lay across the path and upon that Martin dropped, while Sandy braced against a tree.
Here a longing seized Lygia, and her eyes were moist with tears; but she calmed herself quickly, and said, "I know that Pomponia, too, yearns for me; but we have consolation which others have not." "Yes," answered Vinicius, "Christ is your consolation, but I do not understand that." "Look at us! For us there are no partings, no pains, no sufferings; or if they come they are turned into pleasure.
I can't bear the sight on't!" and he leaped a fence and struck off across the fields towards his house. He did not shut his eyes that night, but tossed and groaned aloud. Towards morning he formed a resolution which calmed him somewhat. "Ef I kin only be right close to 'em till it comes, p'raps I can be of a little use. Leastways it 'ud be some comfort to try," he said.
There lay the lovely head, so phantom-like for years, coming only in my dreams; filling now, with a real presence, the eyes that had longed for it, as if in them dwelt an appetite of sight. It calmed my heart at once, which had been almost choking me with the violence of its palpitation. "That is not the face of insanity," I said to myself. "It is clear as the morning light."
She paused a little, and the flush of vehemence on her cheek and of light in her eye calmed down. "It is not just," she said. "Dear Chatty, it is very hard, harder than can be said." "It is not just," said Chatty once more, her soft face falling into lines in which Lady Markland saw a reflection of those which made Theo's countenance so severe. "So far as that goes, the law will release him.
When he saw that she was calmed, he said, 'I will walk home with you now; we can talk on the way. But Janet's mind was now sufficiently at liberty for her to notice the signs of feverish weariness in his appearance, and she would not hear of causing him any further fatigue. 'No, no, she said, earnestly, 'you will pain me very much indeed you will, by going out again to-night on my account.
For beneath his surface equanimity, the man in him was still thrilling under the emotion and astonishment of absolute possession; under the hallowing sense of permanence that at once calmed and exalted the fever heat of passion. But Quita returned to her studio feeling more out of tune than ever.
Why, thus it is with the saints when Satan deludes and abuses them by disfiguring the countenance of Christ to their view: let them but hear their Lord speak in his own natural dialect and he doth so indeed when we hear him speak as an advocate and their minds are calmed, their thoughts settled, their guilt vanished, and their faith revived. Is Christ Jesus the Lord my advocate with the Father?
Danglars, seeing his daughter smiling, and proud even to insolence, could not entirely repress his brutal feelings, but they betrayed themselves only by an exclamation. Under the fixed and inquiring gaze levelled at him from under those beautiful black eyebrows, he prudently turned away, and calmed himself immediately, daunted by the power of a resolute mind.
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