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With an expression of agony, of shame, and humiliation on his countenance, he turned and fled down the steps. Ada at once felt the importance of maintaining her own dignity. She rose, and as calmly as she could command her voice, she asked, "May I know, signor, to what cause I am indebted for this visit?"
"I have calmly listened to you," he added, raising his voice; "I have received with silent composure all the arrogant phrases which you have ventured to utter here in the name of your emperor. I look on them as one of the famous proud bulletins for which your emperor is noted, and to whose overbearing and grandiloquent language all Europe is accustomed.
She repeatedly expressed her amazement that a group of girls so young had the courage to travel by themselves in an automobile, and were not frightened to death to have gotten separated from their chaperon, but were calmly following her up as fast as they were able. She was much interested when she heard they were Camp Fire Girls, and wanted to know all about the Winnebago doings.
Then the god spoke, and at the first sound of his voice, the hair rose on White Fang's neck and the growl rushed up in his throat. But the god made no hostile movement, and went on calmly talking. For a time White Fang growled in unison with him, a correspondence of rhythm being established between growl and voice. But the god talked on interminably.
Isn't that just like her?" groaned Curly. "She was hiding from us." "Here," said Ruth, drawing up the lantern and setting it on the floor. "It can't be very deep. I'm going to drop down there, Curly, and then you pass down the lantern to me." "You'll break your neck, Ruth!" cried Ann. "No. I'm not going to risk my neck at all," Ruth calmly affirmed.
"The best is life," I said, scarcely reflecting upon my words. "Not always," she returned, still speaking calmly. "Death is often the highest blessing that God can give. It will be so in the present case." "Madam!" My tone of surprise did not move her. "It is simply true, Doctor," she made answer.
"He's touchy about Ireland, is he?" he thundered. "Drop it, is it? And why? Why, sir? I'm one of the best tempered men that ever came from Dublin, let me tell you, and I will not stay here to be insulted by the insinuation that I cannot discuss Ireland as calmly as any one in this company or out of it. Touchy about Ireland, is it? Touchy ?" "But, professor " "Take your hand off my arm, Mr. Garnet.
From her two steps' height of vantage, she looked down on the three upturned British faces and her eyes went calmly from one to the other. She turned to Doggie. "One would say, monsieur, that you were the Three Musketeers." "Possibly, mademoiselle," laughed Doggie. He had not felt so light-hearted for many months. "But we lack a d'Artagnan." "When you find him, bring him to me," said the girl.
The occasion seemed too serious, too vital. They were together to decide the most solemn issue in their lives. Once the decision was made, as now it had been made, he felt that they could hardly talk on other topics. Ethne, however, still kept him at her side. Though she sat so calmly and still, though her face was quiet in its look of gravity, her heart ached with longing.
A conviction was born in her that Fate meant her to know the Desert well, strangely well; that the Desert was waiting calmly for her to come to it and receive that which it had to give to her; that in the Desert she would learn more of the meaning of life than she could ever learn elsewhere.
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