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A lover of horses always, an absolute worshipper of Blazing Star, he was barely held in restraint by his promises and fears of Church discipline, and Belle foresaw a time when his wild, impulsive nature would break out.

It was a girl's love letter, a gushing, impulsive thing, full of vows and endearments; but the only part of it with which we are concerned ran in this way: And so the heiress has arrived at last and you saved her life! When you swam with her, didn't you feel that you had the weight of a hundred thousand sovereigns on your back? For oh, Gavan dear, she is nice, but she is very stolid!

The fact is that this incident, comparatively trifling and harmless in its character as it was, led some of the men to question whether they had not thrown off the mild and easy restraints of lawful discipline, only to subject themselves to the grinding tyranny of a single individual of impulsive temper and overbearing disposition.

I suppose I made a weak fool of myself before them all last night, and they thought I was on the eve of conversion. I half wish I were, or on the eve of anything else. Any change from my present state would seem a relief. But a man cannot go into these things like an impulsive girl, even if he believes in them, which is more than I do.

He gently put her from him and crossed himself a habit of his when suddenly perplexed then added: "You have done no evil; but there are proprieties which a young woman must not overstep. You are impulsive, too impulsive; and it will not do to let a young man see that you that you " "Father, I understand," she interrupted, and her face grew very pale.

After what has happened, I ask you both to read it, as a personal favor to me. It is for you to decide, when you know all, whether I am a fit person for an honest woman to associate with or not." She held out her hand, with a sweet, sad smile, and bid us good night. My wife, in her impulsive way, forgot the formalities proper to the occasion, and kissed her at parting.

She was impulsive, however, and did not like to wait. "Philip, I want to say something," said she, gently. "Well, say away," was his ungracious permission. "I thought you had something to say," he said again, more gently, as Della remained silent. "It was only this: I had been thinking the same thing," she said, almost in a whisper. Now Philip knew very well what his wife meant.

It was a pretty sight to see her put her hands on his shoulders, and stand on tiptoe to kiss him, in her honest, earnest way, without waiting for him to ask her. "Ah!" she said, "I knew it wasn't true," and then, still letting her hands rest on his shoulders, she burst forth in her tender, impulsive way again. "Grif," she said, "I don't think I am very wise, and I know I am not very thoughtful.

It proves what you may be capable of feeling . . . for me, one of these days." The mingled dignity and humility of his tone so moved her that her only answer was an impulsive pressure of the hand resting on her arm: and they went forward for a long while without further speech, the muleteer having set off for the summit by a series of short cuts known to his kind.

It is not in our Northern blood to give much expression to sentiment, but we feel none the less deeply much more deeply, I think, than you exuberant Southerners; you are impulsive, mercurial, and fickle." "Oh, don't say that: I can't bear to hear you say it; we have deep feelings, we are constant, true as steel, chivalrous " "Yes, you are delightful people; but you are always living in the past.