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Whether he had been fortified from above on his devout supplication, as is customary with people when they suspect the immediate presence of Satan; or whether, according to another custom, he got courageously drunk at the smithy, I will not pretend to determine; but so it was that he ventured to go up to, nay, into the very kirk. As luck would have it his temerity came off unpunished.
Being a stout woman with a tranquil and sagacious mind, her first act was not to drop the lamp. She courageously clung to the lamp. "Who's there?" said a voice from the apex of the pyramid. Then a subsidence began, followed by a crash and a multitudinous splintering of glass. The living form dropped on to one of the settees, rebounding like a football from its powerful springs.
"I don't feel a bit inspired, only dull and hide-bound." Yet Imogen was, I think, the only inspired performance of these later years. On the first night of "Sans-Gêne" I acted courageously and fairly well. Every one seemed to be delighted. The old Duke of Cambridge patted, or rather thumped, me on the shoulder and said kindly: "Ah, my dear, you can act!"
We knew nothing of its contents to us it was only a schoolmaster's cane, beating us into silence and good behaviour. So the Bible has been for many generations of boys a book even more terrible than Caesar's Commentaries or the Aeneid of Virgil the dull thud of a mysterious cudgel upon the shoulders of youth which you bore as courageously as you could.
He read the holy service swiftly and courageously, but his face was very pale and grave in the light of the candle. When the vespers were over, and he had put off his robe, he said that he would go back to his house, and gather what he needed for the night, and that they should wait for him at the churchyard gate. So he strode off to his vicarage.
To do as your aunt and uncle in their kindness wish, would, I am sore afraid, end in depriving you of the inner strength and happiness which God only gives to those who do their duty and try courageously to repair their errors. I have confidence in you, my dear child. "Ever your most loving father, She read it through a second time, and looked at her baby.
The north shore of the Mersey consists of flat sands, bounded on the land side by barren sand hills, where, driven by necessity, and tempted by a price something lower than land usually bears near Liverpool, some persons have courageously built houses and reclaimed gardens.
She turned from him with disdain, and left Flodoardo rooted to his place with sorrow and astonishment. Scarcely had she reached her chamber ere Rosabella repented her having acted so courageously. It was cruel in her, she thought, to have given him so harsh an answer.
"Paris?" "Brussels. A little less grace; a little more spirit." "Which means money." "A few thousand only. I'll be back by fall." "Do you know that you'll have to mortgage your future for that money, Vance?" He blinked at her, but maintained his smile under fire courageously. "Come, come! Things are booming. You told me yesterday what you'd clean up on the last bunch of Herefords."
"No," I cried as courageously as I was able under the circumstances, "I'm not sorry, I tell you, in spite of all that has happened, and when I get better I'll pay you out for making fun of me when I'm ill!" "Begorra don't say that now, me darlint," said he, grinning more than ever.
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