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All of the new ideas thawed and melted into each other, dissolved into one vague and grand solidarity of reforms. The voice of the whole was urging him amid the gathering moral confusion to declare himself for all truth, and he hearkened irresolute, with divided mind.

Labarthe was with me, and we took Singing Arrow's light canoe and packed it with supplies and merchandise. Then we breakfasted on meal and jerked meat and were ready to start. But the rest of the men were not yet astir, and the woman's house was silent. I walked to it and stood irresolute. I disliked to wake her. Yet I could not leave her without some message.

Presently they heard an irresolute and trembling step at the door, and Lester knocking, asked if they were prepared. "Come in, father," said Madeline, in a calm and even cheerful voice; and the old man entered.

"Hallin will be in the river," said Marcella, irresolute. "If he is, Sir George will fish him out. Besides, I believe Sir George and Ancoats have gone for a walk, and Hallin with them. I heard Maxwell tell Hallin he might go." Marcella turned an uncertain look upon Lord Fontenoy and Mrs. Allison.

The irresolute and selfish Policy of the Peloponnesians. Dexterity and Firmness of Themistocles. Battle of Salamis. Andros and Carystus besieged by the Greeks. Anecdotes of Themistocles. Honours awarded to him in Sparta. Xerxes returns to Asia. Olynthus and Potidaea besieged by Artabazus. The Athenians return Home. The Ostracism of Aristides is repealed.

"I will not permit this thing to be done, while, as I believe, I have the power to prevent it. You see," he said, smiling again, "I put in practice my own theory." Charlton looked exceedingly disturbed, and maintained a vexed and irresolute silence for several minutes, realizing the extreme disagreeableness of having more than his match to deal with. "Come, Capt.

The pistol was nowhere visible; it must have gone into midstream, into a pool below a cascade. If so, it might lie there, undiscovered, a thousand years. He stood irresolute. Could he have done so, he would have dragged the stream, but there was now no time to squander. Once more he made certain that it lay nowhere in clear water or near the shore, then abruptly left the search.

Before the mother had a chance to move, the frightened face of the girl appeared in the parlour door, and she whispered as if afraid of waking some one out of sleep: "He is dead." Both women hurried into the parlour. Keith stood irresolute for a moment. Then he made for the kitchen door and ran downstairs at top speed. He was afraid of missing Murray.

The Colonel halted, irresolute, and pulled his goatee Young Colfax stepped in between them. "I'll buy her for you, Jinny. Mother promised you a present, you know, and you shall have her." Virginia had calmed. "Do buy her, one of you," was all she said "You may do the bidding, Clarence," said the Colonel, "and we'll settle the ownership afterward."

I would give something to see that fellow climbing up the ladder of a steamer from a boat on a blowy day." "Or dancing to the bagpipe," said Paul. The sky was cloudy, and the captain seemed irresolute, whether to advise me to make the ascent or proceed to Banya.