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"Is this why they wait and watch?" he asked himself with rather a shaking heart, "for the time when I shall join them or refuse to join them? Does the decision rest with me after all, and not with them?" And it was at this point that the sinister character of the adventure first really declared itself, and he became genuinely alarmed.
In 1491, O'Neil and O'Donnell mutually submitted their disputes to his decision, at his Castle of Maynooth, and though he found it impossible to reconcile them at the moment, we find both of these houses cordially united with him afterwards.
The imposition of motherhood upon a married woman in absolute despite of her health and of the interests of the children is none the less an iniquity because it has at present the approval of Church and State. It is woman who bears the great burden of parenthood, and with her the decision must rest.
But when a judge contests a law, applied to some particular case in an obscure proceeding, the importance of his attack is concealed from the public gaze; his decision bears upon the interest of an individual, and if the law is slighted, it is only collaterally.
Just a touch of the jumps at times." "We can begin getting our cargo out, I suppose? I have a list here to check it. Will you have the hatches off at once?" "No work for me," said Captain Hamilton Miggs with decision. "Here, Sandy Sandy McPherson, start the cargo, will ye, and stir your great Scotch bones.
We prefer to pass the compliments of the day, talk about business, and approach gradually the special branch of trade to which we are devoted. But Mr. Clark's "Well, young man," was like a whip, and I had to at once open out with my little story. "We don't want anything in that line," said he, with decision. "We are full of guns and ammunition. It's a beastly business. I wish I was out of it.
Then he told himself that he must leave Plato, after having announced to Genie that he was going.... He had made all of his decision except the actual deciding. He omitted his noonday dinner and tramped into the country, trying to plan how and where he would go.
There was a long pause now; and then, still speaking in the same low, distinct voice, and without doubt under the impression that he was only expressing his thoughts in silence: "That's it," he said at last, as if he had quite come to a decision as to the course he must pursue. "In the dark. A quiet walk till we are discovered by their outposts, and then gallop and get through them.
I go to fulfill a sacred duty, and I must be absent for some time; for though, when I was blind enough to doubt your affection, I could not make up my mind to leave you, my conscience was by no means tranquil. Grief takes such an effect on us, that I had not the strength to come to a decision, and my days were passed in painful hesitation.
Then we continued on our way with light hearts; having been inspirited, not only by the pleasant company of the last few days, but also by the decision taken by the two Governments, that, come what might, our independence should not be sacrificed by us. I crossed the Vaal River at Villiersdorp and remained there that evening and through the following day. Then President Steyn and I parted.
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