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Many were the offers of marriage which she accepted in succession, abandoning one suitor after the other without any adequate reason or any feeling of compunction. At length she unexpectedly accepted a man of whom she had scarcely any previous knowledge. The marriage, made at her request in a headstrong fit of impatience, took place a few days after the proposal had been made.
Not wishing to be headstrong or too confident any more, I agreed; and having taken leave of my kind entertainers, went into the wood, accompanied by the youth. He scarcely spoke as we went along; but he led me through the trees till we struck upon a path. He told me to follow it, and, with a muttered "good morning" left me. "I am a part of the part, which at first was the whole."
"The devil he did? Is your sister like you, my dear?" "We are said to be like, but she is much younger only eighteen." "Then this Chatterton is an ass. Good God! what chances silly fellows throw away! And what would you have me do?" "Prevent a duel, Colonel Sword. My brother is hot and fiery; Mr Chatterton is rash and headstrong. There will be enquiries, explanations, quarrels, and bloodshed.
Those other rapids are not to be compared to it; they are wild, headstrong, and malignant enough, but the Alemba is not as they. It does not struggle, and writhe, and brawl among the rocks, but comes in a majestic springing dance, a stretch of waltzing foam, triumphant.
There is no one in his battalion, it seems, whom he really looks up to. He is headstrong and self-confident. Do you think he should that he needs one?" And anxiously the brave eyes sought the strong, soldierly face. "It would seem so, Miss Lawrence." She drew a long breath. She seemed to cling a little closer to his arm.
Festus Willard gained a response from Hal. "You're treating her very harshly, Hal." "We're giving the facts, Lady Jinny." "Are they the facts? All the facts?" "So far as human eyes could see them." "Men's eyes don't see very far where a woman is concerned. She's very young and headstrong, and, Hal, she hasn't had much chance, you know. She's Elias Pierce's daughter."
But he said this also: that first he would go on a trading journey up the river to buy a store of ivory of which he knew. Now she was against this, saying, 'Let us start at once, we have tempted chance too long, and once again we are rich. Let us go to Natal and pass over the seas. "Still he would not listen, for he is a headstrong man.
I own that it was a rash and headstrong act, for even beyond the lake how could we ever hope to penetrate those interminable inhospitable forests, so far from any hiding-place. Yet I felt it my duty to attempt the rescue. And besides, had not her marvelous beauty enmeshed me; had I not felt by some unaccountable intuition at the first moment we had met that our lives were linked in the future?
We have strict statutes, and most biting laws The needful bits and curbs for headstrong steeds Which, for these fourteen years, we have let sleep, Like to an o'ergrown lion in a cave, That goes not out to prey. Measure for Measure.
Nikolay Sergeitch pinched his moustache, as though wondering what he should say next, and went on in an ingratiating voice: "I understand, of course, but you must make allowances. You know my wife is nervous, headstrong; you mustn't judge her too harshly." Mashenka did not speak. "If you are so offended," Nikolay Sergeitch went on, "well, if you like, I'm ready to apologise. I ask your pardon."
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