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To the white traders along the border a half-breed girl was a squaw, and a squaw was property just as a horse or a dog was. For the first time she spoke, and in English. Her voice came bell-clear and not in the guttural of the tribes. "Let me up!" It was an imperative, urgent, threatening. He still held her in the vice, his face close to her flaming eyes. "You little devil," he said again.
That I should accede to this; that I should respect his generous wishes and let him go to unmerited destruction for even so imperative an obligation as we both lay under, was a question for the morrow. I could not decide upon it to-day not while the smallest hope remained that he would yet escape conviction by other means than the one which would wreck the life we were both intent on saving.
That besides, there was an imperative motive that would not permit her to wait, for it would be very disagreeable to her to present herself at the court of assizes in a theatrical way, which was not at all according to her character or habits. I easily discovered that the fear of giving pain to this old friend of her husband was the chief reason why she was opposed to this consultation.
Ann's face had fallen. The idea of foregoing her daily plunge did not commend itself to her in the least. "I don't see why I can't have a dip just get wet, you know," she remonstrated wistfully. "You mustn't think of such a thing!" came in quick, imperative tones. Startled, she turned round to find Forrester standing at her elbow, with Cara Hilyard beside him.
"Yes," she murmured, speaking with difficulty. "My father and Tom are in trouble, and I wanted to ask you if anything could be done to to " she ceased speaking, and in a moment Williams said: "I have held the house off for four or five months, and I cannot induce them to wait longer. Their letters are imperative. I wish I had brought them." "Then nothing can save them?" asked Rita.
There is no doubt, in such a case, that it would be our imperative duty at once to leave the teaching of Satan, and betake ourselves to the Law and the Prophets.
The dismissal came without warning, like the fall of a tree when no wind shakes the forest, but it was imperative and peremptory. My disappointment lasted longer than the acute attack; but, thanks to the cheerful spirit of my wife, by early summer of that year I was able to face the situation with courage that grew as strength increased.
Now it is very difficult, indeed, for you to persuade a man that he ought to do right under such circumstances. He is ready to doubt and question as to whether these laws of right are imperative, whether they are divine, whether they may not be waived one side in the interest of the thing which he desires to do.
This practical reason says to us: you ought to do good. The crowd call it conscience; I call it in a general way practical reason, and I call it the categorical imperative when I take it in its principle, without taking into account the applications which I foresee. Why this name? To distinguish it clearly; for we feel ourselves commanded by other things than it, but not in the same way.
In any case, the example set by the Confederates in burning the village of Chambersburg, Pa., a town which was not garrisoned, would seem to make a defence of the act of firing the seat of government of the State most responsible for the conflict then raging, not imperative.
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