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I mean to see to it that you shall not." They returned to the house, through the incoming sea fog, in silence. At the foot of the side-stair they shook hands and said "good-bye" softly. He had not expected to see her again in the evening. But here he failed to understand that the excitement under which she was laboring made either solitude or inaction unendurable.
But that he is vigorously laboring with himself to control his temper is very evident, and it is equally evident, so at least the Deacon says, that he is gaining a victory in this life-campaign. "It is very clear," said I to myself, as I walked along, "that there are some good points in Mr. Gear's character.
'Tis but a kind of pepper-corn acknowledgment to the great Lord and proprietor of all, from whom we hold them. And to assist their own laboring poor is a kind of natural debt, which persons who possess great landed property owe to those from the sweat of whose brow they derive their comforts, and even their riches.
Bernard could only look back upon her manifestation of feeling towards him on their walk from the school as a vagary of a mind laboring under some unnatural excitement, and wholly at variance with the true character of Elsie Venner, as he saw her before him in her subdued, yet singular beauty.
"No use sending a boy on a man's errand," said Tom. "I'm counting on you to go with me, Ned you and Mr. Baxter. We leave this afternoon for Denton." "I'll be with you. Couldn't pass up a chance like that. But here comes Koku, and it looks as if he had something on his mind." The giant did, indeed, seem to be laboring under the stress of some emotion.
They said, in after years, that they were laboring under a mistake, as was their timid child, in not more faithfully following those early impressions of duty. I was not faithful in the little, consequently more was withheld.
The manner of this man was coldly callous, and he knew that every word he uttered was a lash applied to the bruised soul of the man by the window. Irresistible sympathy made him turn about. "Here's your lager, Jeff," he said, in his easiest fashion. He had no desire that Ju should be made aware of the trouble that Jeff was laboring under. Jeff replied at once.
Thus abandoned, the others turned their attention to the expanse before and below them; and one or two made their way down to the brink, unhooked a boat, ventured in, and, lifting the single pair of oars, were soon laboring gayly out and creating havoc on the placid waters. As Mrs.
Sydney Smith, when laboring as a parish priest at Foston-le-Clay, in Yorkshire though he did not feel himself to be in his proper element went cheerfully to work in the firm determination to do his best.
We went on down the village. Nothing in the least like a mysterious figure passed us in the twilight. The few scattered laboring people, whom I had already seen, I saw again and that was all. Lucilla was silent suspiciously silent as I thought, after what Zillah had told me. She had, as I fancied, the look of a person who was listening intently.
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