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Every night as soon as darkness set in rifle and revolver shots and shouts could be heard in all directions. The morning sanitary carts picked up from five to twenty dead officers. There were no police, no courts, no law, no anything. In desperation the officers grouped themselves together and hit back indiscriminately at the people they thought responsible for the murder of their comrades.
She had been gambling all the while, though Vanno had not at first gambled: but if they had met if there had been a scene which had driven the Prince to desperation might that not explain the change? Had she definitely proved herself unworthy, or had Vanno openly done her some injustice, which had wrought bitterness for both?
Was he not pleading for himself rather than for the human cause he professed? taking advantage of her ignorance and desperation, of her craving for new experience and knowledge? The suspicion sickened her. Were all men like that? Suddenly, without apparent premeditation or connection, the thought of the stranger from Silliston entered her mind.
Anthony cried, in desperation. "Whose money is it?" said Rhoda, and caught up her hands as from fire. "My Lord!" Anthony moaned, "if you don't speak like a Court o' Justice. Hear yourself!" "Is the money yours, uncle?" "It is," and "isn't" hung in the balance. "It is not?" Rhoda dressed the question for him in the terror of contemptuous horror. "It is.
Was it not possible that owing to his momentary panic, he had arisen, facing not the door at the foot of the steps, as he had supposed, but that by which a moment earlier he had entered the cave of the golden dragon? Desperation was with him now; he was gone too far to draw back.
The horrible picture of a starving family is held up before the wage-earner, and he is asked if he will vote to put his wife and children on the street. He is told that if he will accept starvation wages, the Trust will let him make such wages. In desperation he accepts the terms.
At length, however, in a fit of desperation he essayed the task, hurried over it, missed his hold, and went whirling outward from the face of the cliff.
And were it publicly known that she had been cast off, and had fallen on old Vernon for a refuge, and part in spite, part in shame, part in desperation, part in a fit of good sense under the circumstances, espoused him, her beauty would not influence the world in its judgement. The world would know what to think.
The North was averse to war, because it was rising to that higher civilization that abhors violence, discards brute methods, and relies on the intellectual and moral. Such a people, driven to desperation, move right forward to the accomplishment of their object with a scorn of cost or consequences unknown to a lower type.
Nesta controlled a shuddering: 'It is the knowledge of it in ourselves that it has ever happened; you dear Louise, who deserve so much better! And one asks Oh, why are we not left in peace! And do look at the objects it makes of us! Mademoiselle: could see, that the girl's desperation had got hold of her humour for a life-buoy.
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