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His Sunday sermons at the Metropolitan Temple were crowded; as a campaign orator he drew great throngs. Robert's dislike for the man was mitigated by a queer involuntary gratitude.
After him came a certain Major Hay, Indian-enticer of detested memory, the lieutenant of him who followed the Hair Buyer himself. A murmur of hatred arose from the men stationed there; and many would have shot him where he stood but for Clark. "The devil has the grit," said Cowan, though his eyes blazed. It was the involuntary tribute.
The old man, with great good nature, declared that he had rather enjoyed his involuntary bath than otherwise. He was so mud-stained and drenched, however, that it was necessary for him to make an immediate change of clothes.
Morton felt an involuntary shudder at hearing words which implied a banishment from his native land; but ere he answered, Claverhouse proceeded to read, "Henry Morton, son of Silas Morton, Colonel of horse for the Scottish Parliament, nephew and apparent heir of Morton of Milnwood imperfectly educated, but with spirit beyond his years excellent at all exercises indifferent to forms of religion, but seems to incline to the presbyterian has high-flown and dangerous notions about liberty of thought and speech, and hovers between a latitudinarian and an enthusiast.
With less diagnostic elegance we sometimes reach the same end by taking careful records of pulse and breathing and involuntary movements during an apparently harmless conversation.
Fyne's resistance. We have been always completely at one on every question. And that we should differ now on a point touching my brother so closely is a most painful surprise to me." Her hand rattled the teaspoon brusquely by an involuntary movement. "It is intolerable," she added tempestuously for Mrs. Fyne that is. I suppose she had nerves of her own like any other woman.
Upright and delicate as a flower born in the depths of a forest, she knew nothing of the world's maxims, of its deceitful arguments and specious sophisms; she therefore believed the atrocious explanation which her father gave her designedly, concealing the distinction which exists between an involuntary failure and an intentional one. "Father, could you not have prevented such a misfortune?"
But the greatest of these marks of respect was the involuntary homage which Caesar rendered to him, when he made an exception to the contemptuous clemency with which he was wont to treat his opponents, Pompeians as well as republicans, in the case of Cato alone, and pursued him even beyond the grave with that energetic hatred which practical statesmen are wont to feel towards antagonists opposing them from a region of ideas which they regard as equally dangerous and impracticable.
He remembered that when he was only prior of Coussay, Grandier disputed precedence with him and gained it; I fear this achievement of precedence in life will make poor Grandier precede the Cardinal in death also." A melancholy smile played upon the lips of the good Abbe as he uttered this involuntary pun. "What! do you think this matter will go so far as death?"
Something prompted him to grasp the dead man by his shoulder and turn him over on his back. As he did so, Dudley gave vent to an involuntary ejaculation of surprise. "Good heavens!" he exclaimed. "It's von Gobendorff." It was close on sunset when Wilmshurst, racked with pain, returned to the bivouac.
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