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Dangers nor sacrifices will I shun, If so I may avoid the last extreme; But ere I sink down into nothingness, Leave off so little, who began so great, Ere that the world confuses me with those Poor wretches, whom a day creates and crumbles, This age and after ages speak my name With hate and dread; and Friedland be redemption For each accursed deed.
In man sentiment flows, so to speak, from a thousand different sources: it contradicts itself, it confuses itself, it rends itself; otherwise, it would not feel itself. In God, on the contrary, sentiment is infinite, that is, one, complete, fixed, clear, above all storms, and not needing irritation as a contrast in order to arrive at happiness.
So we move on, slowly and noiselessly, amid the fast-falling snow, like a company of ghosts, every man conscious that his life depends on the sagacity and sure-footedness of his mule. And it is wonderful how wary the creatures are. They literally feel their way, never putting one foot forward until the other is firmly planted. But the snow confuses them.
"Madame, do you know who this is?" "Madeleine Jordan." "It is the Marquise de Ferrier." "The Marquise de Ferrier?" "Yes, madame." "Did you know her?" "I have known her ever since I can remember." "The Marquise de Ferrier! But, M's'r Williams, did she know you?" "She knows me," I asserted. "But not as myself. I am sure she knows me! But she confuses me with the child she lost!
One could hardly say how far off it was, for fog of any sort confuses distance; but the brook seemed to run in the direction of the fire, and it was likely that any house stood near its banks. "Let us follow the brook and see what we can find," I said therefore. "These mists are chill, and I will confess that I am hungry.
Man talk confuses a girl, Lou. You shouldn't listen to it." She withdrew with that faint, dreamy smile with which she so often heard the instructions of her father; as though she were only listening with half of her mind.
"All that makes up a plea in mitigation," said Vernon. "Is it not sufficient for you?" she asked him timidly. "You have a masculine good sense that tells you you won't be respected if you run. Three more days there might cover a retreat with your father." "He will not listen to me. He confuses me; Willoughby has bewitched him." "Commission me: I will see that he listens." "And go back? Oh, no!
It is true; and it confuses and hurts me; because I know I am intelligent enough and old enough to to be treated as a woman! a woman attractive enough to be reckoned with! But I never seem to be wholly so to you." The laugh died out as she ended; for a moment they stood there, confronting one another. "Do you imagine," he said in a low voice, "that I do not know all that?"
After giving her time to recover from the exhaustion which her heavy breathing sufficiently revealed, Emily put the question: "Who did the pocketbook belong to?" "Wait a little," said Mrs. Rook. "Everything in its right place, is my motto. I mustn't begin with the pocketbook. Why did I begin with it? Do you think this veil on my face confuses me? Suppose I take it off.
"It confuses me, Elias, to hear you talk so. I would believe that you were right if I did not have my own convictions. But note this point and do not be offended, for I do not include you I look upon you as an exception consider who those are who ask for this reform. Almost all are criminals or people who are in the way of becoming such." "Criminals or future criminals; but why are they so?
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