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The pent-up feelings could endure no more, and the tears rolled down the cheeks of the scout like rain. His fingers again worked convulsively at his throat; and his breast heaved, as if it possessed a tenant of which it would be rid, by any effort, however desperate. "Pathfinder! Pathfinder!" Mabel almost shrieked; "anything but this, anything but this! Speak to me, Pathfinder!
Besides, so strongly am I interested in Miss Davies's fate and welfare in the serious business of life, amid its chances and changes, that to make her the subject of a silly ballad is downright mockery of these ardent feelings; 'tis like an impertinent jest to a dying friend. Gracious Heaven! why this disparity between our wishes and our powers?
All the deepest feelings of his nature seemed to force themselves to the surface in those words all his heart was poured out to me for the first time in our lives but still his voice never rose, still his dread of the terrible revelation he was making to me never left him. "So far," he resumed, "you think the society like other societies.
Those wits of the virgin young, quickened to shrewdness by their budding senses and however vividly require enlightenment of the audible and visible before their sterner feelings can be heated to break them away from a blushful dread and force the mind to know.
It is probable, however, that the effervescence of military ideas and feelings, which arose out of the revolution, would have gradually subsided, had it not been for the fostering influence of the imperial government.
For a considerable time he was proof against all she said, and all she looked; but at length the divinity of pity, beaming in Emily's eyes, seemed to touch his heart. He turned away, ashamed of his better feelings, half sullen and half relenting; but finally consented, that his wife should be removed to her own apartment, and that Emily should attend her.
Only once however, did I have a chance to meet one of these modern Visigoths face to face, and the feelings aroused by that incident remained the darling secret of my youth. I dared tell no one, and I longed, yet feared, to have the experience repeated. But it never was! It happened in this way: On a certain Sunday afternoon in May, my father and mother and I went to Emmons' Woods.
Despising and detesting the display of sensibility, they had fortified themselves for this moment with all their resolution, and each struggled to repress their own feelings. Count Altenberg had delayed till the last moment. It was now necessary that they should set out.
"Of course I can," I said pettishly, for it was bad enough to suffer from one's own feelings, without being troubled at such a time by others. "But oh, there it goes again," he whispered. "What goes again?" I said. "That, sir. I dunno what it is, but there seems to be lots of 'em.
This was done, not so much for any material damage that could be done to Bulgaria, but for the moral effect it might have on the population, which was supposed to have very deep feelings of regard for Russia, because she had freed them from the Turks in 1878.
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