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The pride you have referred to I admit, though it is by no means confined to my own countrymen! Too long have I given way to it, and acted independently of my Maker. Perhaps God sent me here to convince me of my sin and helplessness." "There is no God. I do not believe in a God," said Laronde calmly. "Why not?" asked Sommers, in surprise.
Confronted alone and by the minister, who is not as yet his chum, he reveals chiefly the minister's helplessness. Taken in company with his companions and in his play he is a veritable searchlight laying bare those manly and ante-professional qualities which must underlie an efficient ministry.
I am going to put this gentleman through rather an extended course of sprouts." The librarian smiled with the helplessness of a foreigner, who knows his interlocutor's English, but not the meaning of it. "Oh, I merely wanted to ask," said Mr. Waters, addressing the librarian, and explaining to Colville, "whether you had received that book on Savonarola yet. The German one."
"What has happened, Nellie?" he began, and then halted, his gaze riveted upon her hand. A single diamond glittered from the dirt and grime that soiled her finger. "That?" he gasped, stunned by a feeling of misery and helplessness. "Nat and I are engaged," she said in a low voice without answering his question. "Just since last night." There was nothing more to be said.
Soon, after his marriage, young Manly found that, lovely, accomplished, and intelligent as she was, his wife was wholly incompetent to the task of managing a household; and when, by the discharge of a worthless servant, they were for the first time left alone, her perplexity and helplessness would have been ridiculous, had not the subject been too serious to be thus disposed of.
The pathos of those tremendous passages is in their chaotic disproportion; in their lawlessness and lack of government; in the evident helplessness of the poor old man who hurls them forth from a breaking heart and a distracted mind.
Nothing could have appeared more opportunely than this new hardship to take Rhoda's mind off her misery of the night. Nothing could have brought John so near to her as this utter helplessness brought about through his toiling for her. She looked at him with tears of pity in her eyes, while her heart sank with fright. She knew the terrible danger that menaced them.
And if we place in the hands of the patriarchs the ancestral axes, and tell them to get out charcoal for three millions of tons of iron, to be hauled an average of a hundred miles to market by oxen over roads whose highest type was the corduroy, the imagination reels at the helplessness of the heroes.
But at the first pitch of the wall his helplessness overcame him and he fell back. "It would be better to kill him," said Koolau to Kapahei, who still sat in the same place. "Twenty-two," Kapahei answered. "Yes, it would be a wise thing to kill him. Twenty-three twenty-four." The idiot whined sharply when he saw the rifle levelled at him. Koolau hesitated, then lowered the gun.
Another consequence was a discouragement of English slave trading for nearly a century to follow. The defeat of the Armada in 1588 led the world to suspect the decline of Spain's maritime power, but only in the lapse of decades did the suspicion of her helplessness become a certainty.
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