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"One of the eyes seems to droop a little, and the mouth looks sad. Arnoldina never did look sad." They were on common ground now, and he could speak without constraint. "I hadn't observed that it looked sad. She seems somehow to have got a good deal older since September." "She is maturing, of course." All a mother's pride and approbation, were in the reserve of the speech.
There was a touch of constraint in her voice. "You must have thought I should be in bed." "Yes, we did." "And so I ought to be now. I believe I am tremendously tired, but but I'm so tremendously something else that I hardly know." The constraint had gone. "The signora is happy because she is back in my country," Gaspare remarked, with pride and an air of shrewdness. He nodded his head.
He had a future once more. He had been given that second chance for which he had so yearned. His life was his own once more: not the shamed life in death worse than death of the last two days but his own to take up again, to keep, to enjoy, best of all, to use worthily. No horrible constraint was upon him to lay it down, or to live in torment because he still held it.
The justification of the constraint exercised by the State upon its own citizens is the necessity for security, the obligation of self-defence, which arises from the fact that outside the State there are other States, each endowed like itself with sovereignty, each of them maintaining by force its conception of right.
O man, who roamest through garden and field, through meadow and grove, why dost thou close thy mind to the silent teaching of nature? Behold the weed; grown among hindrances and constraint, how it scarcely yields an indication of inner law; behold it in nature, in field or garden, how perfectly it conforms to law a beautiful sun, a radiant star, it has burst from the earth!
And let me tell you!...It will help you to understand Owen...There WERE little things...little signs...once I had begun to watch for them: your reluctance to speak about her...her reserve with you...a sort of constraint we'd never seen in her before..." She laughed up at him, and with her hands in his he contrived to say: "NOW you understand why?"
But at the word her companion's eye clouded, and a shade of constraint dimmed his enterprising smile. "My wife ? Oh, SHE doesn't go to restaurants she moves on too high a plane. But we'll get old Popp, and Mrs. , Mrs. , what'd you say your fat friend's name was? Just a select little crowd of four and some kind of a cheerful show afterward... Jove! There's the curtain, and I must skip."
That day is, in a word, the epoch when a man of refinement discovers inexhaustible treasures which have always been hidden from him; the freedom a woman acquires who brings into play all the sentiments which constraint has held in reserve; her heart takes a lofty flight, but one well under control. Time, far from leading to loathing, will furnish new reasons for a greater love.
"That may be," said Father d'Aigrigny, with an air of constraint: "but I will observe to your reverence, that it was, perhaps, rather dangerous thus to excite Marshal Simon against me." "Why?" asked Rodin, as he fixed a piercing look upon Father d'Aigrigny. "Because the marshal, excited beyond all bounds, and remembering only our mutual hate, might seek me out " "Well! and what then?"
What is the good, moreover, of arguing about it? Is it true that undisturbed possession is the rock upon which love splits, and that constraint, on the contrary, acts as a spur to it? Instead of arguing aimlessly about such inconsistencies in human nature, it seems to me much simpler to recognise in them, as Kondjé-Gul does, a decree of Fate.
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