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Contrary to everybody's expectation, not a shot was heard, that night. Nor the next night, nor the next: but the practice of vigilance was continued. Punctual as mathematics: at a given hour of the afternoon, tents are all struck; tents and furnitures, field swept clear; and the 50,000 in their places wait under arms. By night there is vigilance, is work, and no sleep.
Ah, she did not! did not see the figure that came moving like a spectre through the gates! did not hear the slow dragging step of one who is weary almost to helplessness, the listless step that has lost the spring of hope, the exultation of life, the expectation of spirit, the strength of manhood! She did hear, did see the man. We feel the nearness of our friend who is a thousand miles away.
But this is on the hypothesis that the 'moral restraint' has come to be so habitual that no man marries until he has a fair prospect of maintaining a family of six. If this were the practical code, the allowance in cases where the expectation was disappointed would not act as an encouragement to marriage, but as a relief under a burthen which could not have been anticipated.
But she was smiling, and a happy excitement full of expectation was written on her features, spoke in her gait; she was always a little ahead of the others. Her husband's face was very grave. Was he not committing a great imprudence, acting in an extremely hasty manner for the sake of his wife? If it did not turn out all right? They had had a bad night.
In another year he was elected a scholar at Magdalen College, his recommendation being his skill in Latin versification. It was the hope and expectation of his parents that he should become a clergyman and follow in his father's footsteps. This also seems to have been the bent of the young man's mind.
Does such expectation explain her constant cheerfulness? otherwise, I do not quite understand her, and have long felt it a difficulty. I put absolute faith in all you tell me of her need I say that? But, if indeed she looks forward to seeing me, in what manner has she conceived that hope?
The expectation of the Catholic Church that Protestantism will spend its force and be lost again in the majestic fabric of Latin Catholic Christianity as it is continued amongst us, is as far from realization to-day, or farther, than at any time in the last 300 years. We need to remember also that conditions change.
She told me that she was sorry she had denied me when I had asked her before, and said that she felt now that I had good reason to suspect the reality of her love. I did my best to reassure her, and indeed all suspicions on my part would have been but idle thoughts, as I had succeeded beyond all expectation.
The expectation of the Texan was that these ambassadors would demand a large number of cattle, probably five hundred, in exchange for their valuable captive. He ardently hoped that such would prove the case, for he had already formed a scheme for paying off the rogues in their own coin.
A young man presented himself, and to him the conducting of the house was transferred for the time being. Then the two friends were led into a small sitting-room, where chairs were placed for them, and Mr. Tobin seated himself opposite them with some expectation. "Since I became manager here," explained he, "I seldom hear of any of the old lads.
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