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But I was inexorable, being turned to flint by the insufferable proximity of a fool, and refused to interfere with his business in any way except to procure him a passage home. I can see his face of mild, ridiculous despair, at this moment, and appreciate, better than I could then, how awfully cruel he must have felt my obduracy to be.
Indeed, the lights of Radville begin to go out about half-past eight; by ten, as a rule, the town is as lively as a cemetery. But I am by nature inexorable and merciless, a masterful man with such as old Sam; and it was an hour later before I left him, drained of the last detail of the day.
Had he the courage, now, to submit the beliefs which had sustained him all these years to Truth's inexorable inspection? Did he dare to turn and open those books which she had inspired, the new philosophies, the historical criticisms which he had neglected and condemned, which he had flattered himself he could do without, and read of the fruit of Knowledge?
Barrow of the Admiralty came and told us the whole fleet, Barham excepted, were ordered to the North Sea to help to bully the King of Holland, and that Captain Pigot, whose motions are of more importance to us than those of the whole British Navy, sails, as certainly as these things can be prophesied, on Thursday, 27th October. October 26. Here we still are, fixed by the inexorable wind.
It was on his tragedy that he based his hopes for his future; the future, in which Flossie had no part. He knew that the plea of art sounded weak before the inexorable claims of nature; he felt that something ought to be sacrificed to the supreme passion; but he couldn't give up his tragedy. He was consumed by two indomitable passions; and who was to say which of them was supreme?
At such tales the high born heart would flutter in Florimel's bosom, beat itself against its bars, turn sick at the sight of its danger, imagine it had been cherishing a crime, and resolve soon before very long at length finally to break so far at least with the painter as to limit their intercourse to the radiation of her power across a dinner table, the rhythmic heaving of their two hearts at a dance, or the quiet occasional talk in a corner, when the looks of each would reveal to the other that they knew themselves the martyrs of a cruel and inexorable law.
I know the way ye would keep your promise, me lady; no, no, I'll make sure of this job." "Oh, grandfather! I'll promise, I promise faithful never so much as to look at Mike!" But Peter was inexorable; he had been wounded in his tenderest point, bearded by these two impudent young people set at nought.
And then the shrill whistle, the inexorable rolling of the wheels, the bright eager face leaning far out of the window, the waved handkerchief, the last words; "So long!" and John's reply, "So long!" John saw the face fade; the wheels of the vanishing train seemed to have rolled over his heart; the scream of the engine was the scream of anguish from himself.
H. was continually interrupting with a cold, inexorable 'Wait knock off twenty-five per cent. of that; now go on; or, 'Wait you are getting that too strong; cut it down, cut it down you get a leetle too much costumery on to your statements: always dress a fact in tights, never in an ulster; or, 'Pardon, once more: if you are going to load anything more on to that statement, you want to get a couple of lighters and tow the rest, because it's drawing all the water there is in the river already; stick to facts just stick to the cold facts; what these gentlemen want for a book is the frozen truth ain't that so, gentlemen? He explained privately that it was necessary to watch this man all the time, and keep him within bounds; it would not do to neglect this precaution, as he, Mr.
Leonard Dowson's appearance, following so closely on Eva Herrick's suggestions, had given her a queer, eerie sensation of awe, as though some inexorable fate were pointing out to her a way of escape from the situation she was beginning to find intolerable. She never doubted the man's affection for her; and she fully believed that he would indeed die in her service.
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