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THE REV. J. P. DE CAUSSADE, in "Holy Abandonment." "The moment we desire God and His will, that moment we enjoy them, and our enjoyment corresponds to the order of our desires." What though the bough beneath thee break? Remember, thou hast wings. To enter into the will of God is an initiation of such power and beauty that language falters in any effort to interpret this supreme experience.

She sees a price set upon her own ruin; she sees men in high places waiting with eager passion the moment when the thread of her resolution will give out. The cloud of her night does, indeed, seem darkening again. But she gains the prison, and falters as she enters the cell where the old Antiquary, his brow furrowed deep of age, sleeps calmly upon his cot.

She says it forward; she says it backward; she begins at the middle and goes up; she begins at the middle and goes down; she rattles it through in French, she groans it through in German, she falters it through in Greek. She attempts the numeration-table, flounders somewhere in the quadrillions, and forgets where she left off.

It is hardly necessary to state that in this instance the oppressor was a pale, overworked New England "schoolmarm." The principle for which I was contending, I felt, however, to be the same. I was seized and overpowered. My pen falters as I reach the climax.

In deed and in truth, Iris, What shall a poor girl say or do, when a strong man falters in his speech before her, and can do nothing better than hold out his hand to finish his broken sentence? The poor girl said nothing, but quietly laid her ungloved hand in his, the little, soft white hand which had ministered so tenderly and suffered so patiently.

But to arrive at a full understanding of the real Nature we must observe her from every point of view and see her in all her aspects. Only so shall we be able to understand her real self and see her full Beauty. And her aspects and the points of view from which we may observe them change so incessantly that the greatest of us falters.

And what could two handsome, heartwhole, sentimental young beings do but fall "Not over the balustrade!" O no! but into love! The whole company now came out upon the balcony, and they slowly promenaded about the four sides of the cabin. We cannot describe the witchery and beauty of the fast-flying panorama below. Our pen falters, and the picture must be left to the imagination of the reader.

When the day of reckoning comes, let it be the day of his vengeance, not of mine. In my heart I said those words I have been true to them I have waited. The day has come, and the duty it demands of me shall be fulfilled." There was a moment's silence before Lomaque spoke again. "Your sister?" he began, hesitatingly. "It is there only that my purpose falters," said the other, earnestly.

He sees nothing, hears nothing, though a treacherous form crouching on the threshold is making ready to seal his doom. Arthur Dynecourt, putting forth his hand, which neither trembles nor falters on its deadly mission, silently lays hold of the door, and, drawing it toward him, the secret lock clicks sharply, and separates his victim from the world!

A narrow trail then, but, even then, to him it was broad in its potential significance of the dawn of Grace upon the mountain shores of Heaven's lost garden, California. Not far from one iron-posted bell in the valley, El Camino Real falters, to find, eventually, a lazy way round the low foothills, as though reluctant to lift its winding length over the sharp pitch of the Canajo Pass, beyond.