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She heard the ripples lapping on the reeds and, with an imaginary Sir Bedivere at her elbow, hurried back to the farm to dress herself as a Scottish edition of King Arthur in kilts that had belonged to her grandfather. She worshipped the shine of the moon on the great jewel at her breast as she stepped into the little frail boat, very tired after a long day's wandering on Ben Grief without food.
There was a baffled imperiousness about him, Stephen decided. "A clever youngster," he told his wife, watching him from across the room. "Brains. But I don't like him." "Stephen! Why not?" He shook his head. "I don't know yet. But I know. I had a curious sense, as he came limping into the room to-night, of 'Enter the villain." "My dear, that poor, frail boy, with his lovely, gentle manners!"
Elihu attempts to arbitrate the matter, by alledging the impossibility that so frail and ignorant a creature as man should comprehend the ways of the Almighty, and therefore condemns the unjust and cruel inference the three friends had drawn from the sufferings of Job.
Then she told in strictest confidence that Georgia was very frail, would probably die young, certainly would not reach twenty-five; and I ought not to hesitate at what would make her life easier. Still, if I had no regard for my sister's comfort, she would be compelled to send us together afoot after the cows, and the exposure might be very bad for Georgia. This was enough.
"Midst others of less note came one frail form, A phantom among men; companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm, Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the world's wilderness; And his own Thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued like raging hounds their father and their prey."
And his cradle had been rocked with a trembling knee, and his pillow been bathed with hot tears. Frail had been his childhood a thing that hung on her care; and now, as the boy grew, blooming and strong, into youth, the mother felt that she had given life twice to her child.
And she's so little and frail " He pulled himself together. "I must stop worrying like this of course, I'll find her, alive and unharmed. Some things are too dreadful they just can't happen.
I foresaw the day when I should so prove my ability that father would take me into his own store, and then, gradually, I would make my place, secure, while you were idling about Europe. And in those days you were frail and I was vigorous. "There was no mistaking that father's sense of convention was the one thing that stood between him and my desire.
Know, then, that you are a God for a God it must be, which flourishes, and feels, and recollects, and foresees, and governs, regulates and moves the body over which it is set, as the Supreme Ruler does the world which is subject to him. For as that Eternal Being moves whatever is mortal in this world, so the immortal mind of man moves the frail body with which it is connected.
She runs our risks, the risk of capture, the risk of the night, the storm, the snow, she a woman by nature timid and frail, yet with never in all her life so great a reason for timidity, or so much frailty of health as now. We venture our lives, but she ventures more." The mother bowed her head; Clementina looked fixedly at Wogan. "Speak plainly, my friend," she said. "There are no children here."
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