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He debated the choice on one hand the peril of gambling unarmed, on the other his desperate need for money. Once more he considered Clare: in the end his arrogance of manhood brought a decision he would preserve the money for play. He was, he thought insolently of himself, quick as a copperhead snake, and as dangerous.
They went out of the palace and sat down before the gates, and were talking of sending word to their ship that was lying in wait for Telemachus, when the ship itself came into the harbor, with the other princes on board. So they all went up together to the public square and debated what to do, and they resolved to murder Telemachus as soon as they found another chance.
Let us both die, I should have said; for what will life be to her after she has fallen into the hands of this villain, and what to me after I have delivered her into them? But the peculiar misery of the death that threatened her, kept the problem still busy in my mind. And yet I could not bring myself to yield her to the Captain. The day had become afternoon, and I still debated.
"Couldn't we lock him up in the cloisters, as we locked up Ketch, and that lot; and leave him there all night?" proposed Berkeley. "But there'd be getting the keys?" debated Mark Galloway. "As if we couldn't get the keys if we wanted them!" scoffingly retorted Bywater. "We did old Ketch the other time, and we could do him again.
So sensitive was he to the pride and the anger and the ill-will that all controversy kindles in our hearts that, as soon as he felt any unholy heat in his own heart, or saw it in the hearts of the men he debated with, he at once cut short the controversy with some such words as these: 'We have said too much on this matter already; let us leave it till we love one another more. If hot-blooded Samuel Rutherford had sat more at James Guthrie's feet in the matter of managing a controversy, his name would have been almost too high and too spotless for this present life.
At the beginning of the Thirty-eighth Congress it was again presented, and very soon was reported back to the House under the title of 'A bill to establish a Bureau of Freedmen's Affairs. It was fully debated and passed by the House.
When the women of Waddy had anything exceptional to talk about they talked amazingly, and on this particular Monday there was so much of interest to be discussed that even the most voluble could only do justice to the subjects by neglecting domestic duties and devoting themselves to back-gate arguments. Harry Hardy's accident was considered and debated from many points of view.
I have no imagination. I don't know how it would be, you must say all those things." "Do I have to cry?" said Christine. Riatt debated the point. "No," he answered at length, "I can imagine the tears, but everything else you must act out. Particularly that part about my seeming like a god to you." "But how in the world can I teach you what to do, if I have to act a part myself?"
They took off their garments, wrung the water out of them and hung them on the bushes to dry, a task soon to be accomplished by the sun that now came out hot and bright. Meanwhile they debated their further course. "The long canoe still goes south," said Tayoga. "It is now many miles away, hunting for us.
Sometimes he talked nervously of unexpected physiological results its use might have, and then he would get a little unhappy; at others he was frankly mercenary, and we debated long and anxiously how the preparation might be turned to commercial account. "It's a good thing," said Gibberne, "a tremendous thing.
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