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All who saw him were powerfully attracted, but half-unconsciously felt a slight doubt whether even so fine a specimen of manhood was quite fitly organized and equipped for the strife of existence. At the university he had been given the nickname of Wilhelmina, on account of a certain gentleness and delicacy of manner, and because he neither drank nor smoked.
But there is, I believe, another and an almost deeper reason for the strong emotion which has possessed these men; one most intimately bound up with our national life, national unity, national history; one which they can hardly express to themselves; one which some of them are half ashamed to express, because they cannot render a reason for it; but which is still there, deeply rooted in their souls; one of those old hereditary instincts by which the histories of whole nations, whole races, are guided, often half-unconsciously, and almost in spite of themselves; and that is Loyalty, pure and simple Loyalty the attachment to some royal race, whom they conceived to be set over them by God.
All the marquisates in the world would never give me the pride I should feel if I could see in my life one steady self-sacrifice to duty and honor equal to that which I have witnessed in you." "Oh, my lord! my lord!" "Hear me out. That you love Fanny Trevanion I know; that she may have innocently, timidly, half-unconsciously, returned that affection, I think probable. But "
North-country farming in England was the life to which he had looked forward; vigorous sports and hard work in the keen air of the Cumberland fells had knit his frame and hardened his muscles; and his parents, as they noticed with pride their boy's sturdy limbs, and listened in wonder to the bits of learning he brought home from school, had looked forward half-unconsciously to the days when he in his turn would be master of the farm which Rattrays had held for generations.
Mittie has had a wetting" he called the younger girl by her name half-unconsciously "and they have put her to bed for fear of a chill. And she wants you." Naturally Joan was a good deal concerned, though Fred made little of the accident. He explained more fully, and an appeal to the old lady brought permission. "Not for the night, child I can't spare you for that, but for the evening.
Catching vainly at branch and rock, he went on, down and down, till he was brought up short by a great mossy block of stone just as another volley was fired, apparently from the mule-track high above him; and half-unconsciously, in the confusion and excitement of the moment, he lay perfectly still, cowering amongst the sparse growth in the hope that he might not be seen from the shelf-like mule-track above, though expectant all the while that the next shot fired would be at him.
Sally Carrol had several rather clearly defined sides. On his last afternoon they walked, and she found their steps tending half-unconsciously toward one of her favorite haunts, the cemetery. When it came in sight, gray-white and golden-green under the cheerful late sun, she paused, irresolute, by the iron gate. "Are you mournful by nature, Harry?" she asked with a faint smile. "Mournful?" Not I."
What a wonderful earth was beyond! He turned and walked heavily away. They hadn't any right to expect that! Half-unconsciously he went toward the grove north of the house where he had played when he was a little boy.
She was fighting for power to say humbly, "Try to forgive me," but he did not give her time. "If you would only say good-bye only one word;" and he almost knelt beside her, raising her cold hand half-unconsciously to his lips. She drew it away suddenly. His tenderness was the worst reproach of all. Her sobs burst out without control. She rose.
Joe understood, you see, and I was surprised when HE did. But I was just sure you could with all this to look at." The lady frowned. Half-unconsciously she glanced about her as if contemplating flight. Then she turned back to the boy. "But how came you here? Who are you?" she cried. "I'm David. I walked here through the little path back there.
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