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But he shuddered not at his memory of that spectacle, but at its effect on him an effect that he had denied with a passionate, clanking gesture of his chained arms, yet that had remained in the depths of his brain like a serpent, which had always slept till then, and had ever since been gnawing at his thoughts.
But White Fang was to have no more than a nightmare vision of the city an experience that was like a bad dream, unreal and terrible, that haunted him for long after in his dreams. He was put into a baggage-car by the master, chained in a corner in the midst of heaped trunks and valises.
And London, I knew, was the city of the gnomes who labour sadly all their lives, imprisoned underground; and a terror seized me lest I, too, should remain chained here, deep down below the fairy city that was already but a dream. We stopped at last in a long, unfinished street.
Step by step, by means of strenuous and disinterested exertions, employing prestige and encouragements, by legislation and otherwise, a breach was effected which bids fair to break down that caste-fenced and chained thraldom, and to raise over a hundred millions of her humble subject sisters from unnatural degradation to occupy the honourable and responsible rank assigned by the Creator to woman as man's social help, meet for him, and to whom honour is due as to the weaker vessel.
Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love.
It is the eternal conflict of mind and matter, spirit and flesh, two prisoners chained together the one despising the other, yet ruled by him, and subservient to the needs of his lower nature." The lady stared at her. "You know Mr. Lorrimer very well, then, I suppose?" she remarked. "Let me see," said Ideala, awaking from her trance, "that is a question I often ask myself.
The next move was to set the six strong fox traps, each thoroughly smoked, and chained to a fifteen-pound block of wood. Approaching the place carefully and using his blood-rubbed glove, Quonab set in each ash pile a trap. Under its face he put a wad of white rabbit fur.
It chained him completely. 'At all events, I shall not be away longer than three days, he said; paused, eyed Cecilia's profile, and added, 'Do we differ so much? 'It may not be so much as we think, said she. 'But if we do! 'Then, Nevil, there is a difference between us. 'But if we keep our lips closed? 'We should have to shut our eyes as well!
At these words the unhappy Prince found himself tied to a rock; but he was not alone in his misfortunes, for all round him were chained Princes and Princesses, whom the giant had led captive. Indeed, it was his chief delight to create a storm, in order to add to the list of his prisoners.
"Receive this as a parting gift from one who wishes you well, and who, although his body is chained to his counter, will accompany you in spirit to those far-off Eastern lands it may be your happy destiny to visit," he said, as he handed the book to me, with a kind look which showed the sincerity of his feelings. It was a grammar and vocabulary, with a portion of the "Arabian Nights" in Arabic.
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