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No, it is not in the heart of Edwin to harbour for a moment the sentiments of barbarity and insult But if we cannot now escape if the dangers to which we must submit may be diminished by delay indeed, Edwin, something must be attempted at least let us now fix upon a plan, and determine what to do. Let not delay relax the spirit of enterprise, or shake the firmness of our purpose."
He proved himself such in all ways, but in none more surely than in his ability to consider all men simply as men, and, with a judgment that nothing could confuse, to ward off from his cause and country the dangers inherent in colonial habits of thought and action, so menacing to a people struggling for independence.
"My dear friend, this is but a kindly and delicate mode of relieving me from the dangers of war. I have, as you must be conscious, no practical knowledge of business. Hebert can be implicitly trusted, and will carry out your views with a zeal equal to mine, and with infinitely more ability."
Even the morning "Stand-to" with that mysterious dread of unknown dangers that it invariably brought gave us nothing worse than an hour of chilly waiting and later, the smoke of the Germans' cooking fires. There were none for us. It was as simple as algebra. Smoke attracted undue artillery attention the Germans had artillery; we had not. They had fires; we had not.
"From all the perils and dangers of this night " Then, after an interval during which the sunset struck golden across a tomb in the chancel: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ . . . now and for evermore. Amen." She rose from her knees and her glance fell upon Miss Ethel, who sat a fair distance away in the sparsely filled side aisle.
Long Jim Hart cooked the tender steaks in his finest style and they spent the rest of the day preparing for the journey, which they believed would take them across the Ohio, and which they knew would be full of dangers. They put out their fire and rested until dusk came.
"Hardly anything." "But he oughtn't " "I think the risks and dangers came afterward." "Even so," said Isabel, "it's just for money. That's what I hate so." "Isn't it just for you," said Mrs. Barraclough gently. "Just because if he failed he wouldn't be able to make you his wife." "He never told me." "Of course he didn't. How could he?" "Are you sure of all this?" "Practically certain.
"Nay, Sir, even my brother he lives now in Alexandria, and is blind and foolish enough still in all that concerns his former pupil and even he thinks this is a dangerous rock ahead. If he does not change in this respect he will wander further and further from the law of the Lord, and imperil his soul, for dangers surround him on all sides like roaring lions.
This and the continual urging forward of the horse render riding very fatiguing. Not a little consideration is certainly required before undertaking a journey into the far north; but nothing frightened me, and even in the midst of the greatest dangers and hardships I did not for one moment regret my undertaking, and would not have relinquished it under any consideration.
Such a man must plainly either have such confidence in his rhetoric as to adventure to prove that what has been once for all decided is still undetermined, or be bribed to try to delude us by elaborate sophisms. In such contests the state gives the rewards to others, and takes the dangers for herself.
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