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It would mean disaster to both, with no one left to help. Say, I'm glad I'm big and strong. That's it, we'll stand by. You'll think, and I'll do what you tell me. By Jing! That's made everything different. We'll stand by, and break their fall. I could never have thought of that I couldn't, sure." It was Helen's turn to display enthusiasm.

To contest the seat was to have the accusation hurled at his head that he was lacking in enthusiasm for the Boer cause, which Nationalist Ireland to a man devotedly espoused. The question Mr O'Brien had to ask himself was what was his duty to Ireland and to the oppressed peasantry of the West.

Yet, on this occasion, the joint efforts of power and enthusiasm were unsuccessful; and the ground of the Jewish temple, which is now covered by a Mahometan mosque, still continued to exhibit the same edifying spectacle of ruin and desolation.

"Hallo, here come two more of the Colonel's blue-eyed boys," laughed the officers of our new battalion the first time we came into their view. And "The old man's mounted his hobby again," said they, after any lecture in which he alluded to Youth and Enthusiasm. Yet the Colonel was right, and the scoffers wrong.

On the first night these friends, with their usual enthusiasm, incited the public to applaud, but had themselves found so little pleasure in the work that they had stayed away from the second performance, which was otherwise badly attended, so that the opera could only be considered a failure.

It belongs then to candour, it is the province of disinterestedness, it is the duty of reason to judge, if the natural principles which have been here ushered to the world be destitute of foundation; it is to these upright jurisconsults that a disciple of nature submits his opinions: he has a right to except against the judgment of enthusiasm; he has the prescription to enter his caveat against the decision of presumptuous ignorance; above all, he is entitled to challenge the verdict of interested knavery.

But, as may be noted in many imaginative men, the life that seemed faint and chill in the rest of the frame, collected itself, as in a citadel, within the eye. Bright, wild, and deep, the expression of those blue large orbs told the intense enthusiasm of the mind within; and, even somewhat thrillingly, communicated a part of that emotion to those on whom they dwelt.

Then he called on them to praise God by their faith in all that added to His glory and dominion. But now his eloquence was otherwise directed, not full of the old fire and enthusiasm, not trustful in God, but dependent on prudence, as though all help were in man. He had to draw from his own experience now, things new and old, and was not, by confession of the result of such experience, humiliated!

But no doubt there are other reasons why the novel should not finally be of the length of Hamlet, and I must not let my enthusiasm for the novelette carry me too far, or, rather, bring me up too short.

"I know you have; I know it, Ishmael; but you have grandly, gloriously conquered suffering," said Mr. Brudenell, with enthusiasm. "Not quite conquered it yet; but I shall endeavor to do so," replied the young man, who had now quite regained his self-possession. And another pause fell between them. Ishmael leaned his head upon his hand and reflected deeply for a few moments.