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And I conjure you, be brave, choose between your work and me, since you say, it seems, that you send me away that you may work the better." The moment for the heroic falsehood had come. He lifted his head and looked her bravely in the face, and with the smile of a dying man who desires death, recovering his voice of divine goodness, he said: "How excited you get!
The tired man returning from business finds that his excited brain will not cease to act. He can enjoy restoring rest in the complete diversion of his thoughts; he can think of this tree or that plant, and how he can fill to advantage unoccupied spaces with other trees, flowers, and vegetables.
Zara trusted me, and if I don't help her now, just think of what will happen." "You must keep calm, Bessie, that's the first thing to think of. If you let yourself get excited and worked up you won't help Zara, and you'll only get into trouble yourself. You say she trusted you now you must trust me a little. Tell me, first, just what this man will do and if he has any right at all to touch her."
No nation has ever attracted more attention or excited more profound wonder, or given promise of greater eminence or influence. And certainly here, if anywhere on the globe, are to be found a strong array of Christians, such as are the salt of the earth, and the light of the world.
This day, however, her head was so full, and her mind so excited and taken up with the flourishing state of the kitchen-garden, and the letter from her beloved Amandus, that she talked of both subjects incessantly, mixed up, without leaving off.
Dexter had indeed gone a step too far, a fact of which he was painfully aware. He had conjured up a spirit that it might not be easy to lay. "You are too excited. Calm yourself," he said. Turning from her husband, Mrs. Dexter crossed the room, and seating herself upon a sofa, said, in a quiet way "Sit down beside me, Mr. Dexter. I am calm.
That should come presently, when she had the whole garden to herself, and all the leisure of the long summer morning before her. She felt that in a sense she owed him that. But a note that caught her eye lying on the table she paused to open and hastily peruse. The writing was unfamiliar to her a dashing, impetuous scrawl that excited her curiosity.
When she again visited her invalid she found her quite excited with her work that she had just completed. 'Oh, what a pretty cap! said Mrs Prothero, quite astonished at the taste displayed. 'I must just run and show it to Netta I am so much obliged to you. Mrs Prothero left the room and soon returned, followed by her daughter.
Their presence in the heart of a great activity, the anticipation of adventure to come, the electric atmosphere of haste and straining effort on every hand excited them. Eliza began to be less conscious of her secret intention, and Natalie showed a gaiety rare in her since the shadow of her mother's shame had fallen upon her life.
A murderous conflict ensued over the body, till his mangled remains were buried beneath a heap of slain. The mournful tidings soon ran through the Swedish army; but instead of destroying the courage of these brave troops, it but excited it into a new, a wild, and consuming flame.
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