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When the truth contained in a myth was sought by an initiate, he was conscious of adding something which did not exist in the consciousness of the people. He was aware of being above that consciousness, as a botanist is above a growing plant.
Just as in the mist-enveloped hollow near Borodino, so along the entire line outside and above it and especially in the woods and fields to the left, in the valleys and on the summits of the high ground, clouds of powder smoke seemed continually to spring up out of nothing, now singly, now several at a time, some translucent, others dense, which, swelling, growing, rolling, and blending, extended over the whole expanse.
He had a growing, almost desperate need of some wealthy friend who should stretch out a saving hand between him and his fast-accumulating difficulties; and who so fitted for this office as a son-in-law? Yes, upon the whole, the thing was worth wishing for. He bade Lady Laura good-night, declaring that this brief glimpse of the civilised world had been strangely agreeable to him.
"Since I began to hear it, I know it is growing louder, therefore I judge it was coming nearer and nearer until I did hear it first. I'm not so very old, you know a few thousand years only and I was quite a baby when I heard the noise first, but I knew it must come from the voices of people ever so much older and wiser than I was.
The sybil drove in the fine point again. "`Why doesn't she come back to me?" she reiterated. The program that had proceeded so smoothly now received an unexpected hitch. Jennie paused suddenly in her garmenting, relief growing in her face. "After all," she observed, "I don't believe mother had anything more than one of her sick-headaches. She has them all the time.
"Evidence f'r the State," the Judge finally managed to stammer, turning to the attorney for the prosecution. But it never came so far along as that. There was a sound of many footsteps; voices came murmuring, growing louder. The door was pushed open from without, and in came much of the remaining population of Heart's Desire, so far as it could gain room.
All the Hellenes then being in this condition, still ignorant of the growing and accumulating evil, you have to ask yourselves, men of Athens, what policy and action it was fitting for the city to choose, and to hold me responsible for this; for the person who assumed that responsibility in the State was myself. Should she, Aeschines, have sacrificed her pride and her own dignity?
And when you look back upon your past lives, cannot you see some instances of the same kind when you felt and acted as if the Lord had forgotten you, and found afterwards that he had been watching you all the time? "But the reason why you do not trust him more is that you obey him so little. If you would only, ask what God would have you to do, you would soon find your confidence growing.
She strode ahead of him, silent, through the wet bracken, her frock growing a limp rag as it brushed aside the glistening ferns. As she struck the broader path to the house, the cackling laugh of a goat chained to a roadside log followed her cynically. Where had she heard this bleat before? Ah, yes, from the Marquis of Woodham. Walter Bassett had spoken truly.
For each year as it passed over Felicita left her in a separation from her fellow-creatures, always growing more chilly and dreary. It seemed to herself as if her lips were even losing the use of language, and that only with her pen could she find vent in expression.
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