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But he only opened wider the flood-gates of race-feeling. 'Yes, she replied simply, 'and such a heaven of stars is beginning to arise over the night of Israel. Is it not wonderful the transformation of our people?
This stream of people came from every quarter, as if impulse had unlocked flood-gates, let flow waters of whose existence he had heard, perhaps, but believed in never. This, then, was the populace, the innumerable living negation of gentility and Forsyteism. This was egad! Democracy! It stank, yelled, was hideous! In the East End, or even Soho, perhaps but here in Regent Street, in Piccadilly!
Catherine of Genoa: "We know not why it is we feel an internal necessity of using the plural pronoun instead of the singular." But if conditional baptism left him silent, the Sacrament he certainly received the following day opened the flood-gates of his speech: "August 2. Penance! joy! unbounded love! Sweet Jesus, Thy love is infinite! Blessed faith! sweet love!
Her strong, self-controlled nature had never before given way and found expression in words. Now the flood-gates were opened, the stream broke through. Gertrude was distressed at her unwonted emotion. "Veronica," she said, sadly and lovingly, "this pains me. I had no idea of your feeling; no conception of your having suffered so.
The flood-gates were rent; and healing sobs and tears shook the frail form, as a faded lily shakes under the soft rains of summer. All in the room wept together. "Now, honey," said Candace, after a pause of some minutes, "I knows our Doctor's a mighty good man, an' larned, an' in fair weather I ha'n't no 'bjection to yer hearin' all about dese yer great an' mighty tings he's got to say.
A shower almost like the bursting of a cloud,—great, pelting drops, hissing down upon the flaming tree; it seemed like a solid sheet of water; as if the very flood-gates of heaven were open.
These words, and the contemptuous tone in which they were spoken, burst the flood-gates of Caracalla's painfully restrained passion; his voice rose harsh and loud, till the lion growled angrily and dragged at his chain, while his master flung hasty words of fury in the face of his enemy: "We shall soon see, my cunning fencer with words, whether I know how to follow your advice, and how sternly I can exercise that virtue denied to me by an assassin.
'Then we can manage the other school, perhaps, for Frank? she cried, and was about to open various flood-gates when he stopped her with a look of proud happiness that broke down all barriers of further pretended secrecy. 'Mr. Rogers, was the low reply, 'has offered to do that for us as a start. The words were leisurely spoken between great puffs of smoke.
All these years kept for thee. Take me Ah! . . . Oh, Hugh, thy strength! Is this love, or is there some deeper, more rapturous word? Oh, dear man of mine, how strong must have been the flood-gates, if this was the pent-up force behind them!" He carried her to the hearth in the great hall, and placed her in the chair in which his mother used to sit.
Le Morvan, intersected by numerous rivers, streams, and runs of water, in the liquid depths of which the various species of the fresh-water fishy-family are found from the powerful, swift, and travelled salmon, to the modest little gudgeon that stays quietly at home, is a country where the angler may live in a state of perpetual jubilee; the carp, the eel, and the pike attain an enormous size, particularly near the dams and flood-gates, where the depth of water is great, and in the Gours or water-courses which, diverging at several points on the stream, are constructed for supplying the flour and paper-mills with water.
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