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Then, in a few moments, I knew that he was safe desperately against his will, but safe. His first sentient words startled me. He gasped, "Does she think I am drowned?" "Yes." "Then she must continue to do so!" "Why?" "Because" here he spoke faintly, as if sudden fear had produced additional weakness "because I had rather die a thousand deaths than meet her now; because she hates me.
"O, now, cousin," said Augustine, sitting down on the floor, and laying his head back in her lap, "don't take on so awfully serious! You know what a good-for-nothing, saucy boy I always was. I love to poke you up, that's all, just to see you get earnest. I do think you are desperately, distressingly good; it tires me to death to think of it."
You can try for your your life, but in the end you'll come to me. I don't care what they of Kenmore will say, I'll know you are what you are, and sympathy will be with me, gal, when I take you. And you'll know, once you come to me, proper and asking, I'll do I'll do the best any man could do for I love you!" This was flung out desperately, defiantly.
As a very young soldier he had been an Austrian officer in 1793. His command served in Belgium; and there, in a skirmish, he was overpowered by the French in superior numbers, but resisted desperately. In the melee a saber slashed him across the right side of his face, and he was made prisoner.
All that evening, as if both knew they had been looking over a precipice, they seemed to be treading warily, desperately anxious not to rouse emotion in each other, or touch on things which must bring a scene. And Leila talked incessantly of Africa. "Don't you long for the sun, Jimmy? Couldn't we couldn't you go? Oh! why doesn't this wretched war end?
Certainly there was a possibility that he would die of neglect if left alone at the château. But then he must have faced this possibility and deliberately chosen it. Sally wondered what would become of an escaped prisoner if he were discovered to be desperately ill? It did not seem possible that the military authorities would be so severe as he had anticipated.
She became limp in his arms, though making no attempt to escape, and he knew that the essential self of her he craved still evaded and defied him. And he clung to her the more desperately as though by crushing her peradventure he might capture it.
A bugle rang on the hill, once, twice, and the pony-soldiers were on their knees, their front a blinding flash, with the blue smoke rolling down upon the Indians or hurried hither and thither by the vagrant winds. Several followers of the Fire Eater reeled on their ponies or waved from side to side or clung desperately to their ponies' necks, sliding slowly to the ground as life left them.
Hardly had the noise of the explosion died away, when I heard a great flopping in the bushes, and on going up to it found a large turkey making his last kicks. I picked him up and was about to turn away, when I saw another fine old gobbler desperately wounded, but trying to crawl off.
There are some men who cling so desperately to their physical vehicles that they will not relax their hold upon the etheric double, but strive with all their might to retain it. They may be successful in doing so for a considerable time, but only at the cost of great discomfort to themselves.
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