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A long silence followed. Christian's voice was softer when he resumed. 'You never knew her. She was the one woman in ten thousand at once strong and gentle; a fine intellect, and a heart of rare tenderness. But because she had not the kind of face that' He checked himself. 'To the end her mind kept its clearness and courage.
It was a terrible time for the poor child. On every side she was checked, frowned upon, and kept down. If she was betrayed into the utterance of a merry word she was snapped at as though she had said something bad; and ebullitions of childish spirits were checked again and again, until their occurrence became rare.
Fred started angrily at this, but he checked himself, reined back his horse, and looking very white now from anger and pain, he gave the word of command.
The streets here weren't familiar, but he checked his direction by the sun and walked at a steady fast pace towards the destroyed building. More of the native Disans were in the streets now. They all noticed him, some even stopped and scowled fiercely at him. With his emphatic awareness he felt their anger and hatred. A knot of men radiated death, and he put his hand on his gun as he passed them.
Careless of all that, at the moment, she held it up now to the light to see if further furbishing could brighten it, and as she did so was hastily checked. She had caught sight of a dark face just framed and mirrored, the sad eyes raised and resting on her own, luminous no more, but heavy, and longing, and dull with a weight of woe.
It was held pretty safely by Brussilov. The second army was checked by Dmitrieff. Further east, however, the army of the Bukovina crossed the Carpathian range, and made considerable advances. This campaign was fought out in a great number of battles, the most serious of which, perhaps, was the battle of Koziowa.
Purpose seeks the good of the individual as understood by him and is often against the welfare of the race, whereas instinct seeks the good of the race, often against the welfare of the individual. Intelligence is the path of the stimulus or need cerebrally directed, lengthened out, inhibited, elaborated and checked.
'That's all nonsense, he replied sullenly, the jealous motive possessing him again at the sight of her gleaming eyes. 'It's you who don't understand, and just because you have no sympathy with my work. Any one would think you cared for nothing but to take the money from me, just to Even in his access of spiteful anger he checked himself, and dropped to another tone.
In fact, I expect, Lalage made you laugh." Miss Pettigrew smiled and then checked herself. Amusement struggled with a certain grimness for expression on her face. In the end she smiled again. "Lalage has always made me laugh," she said, "ever since she was quite a little girl. That's what makes it so difficult to manage her." "Why try?" I said. "Lord Thormanby has washed his hands of her.
A little apprehensive shudder swept through Grell's frame. His lips opened to say something, but he checked himself suddenly. "What's that to do with me?" he demanded quietly. "A great deal, if it's true, as I know it to be. Now, Mr.
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