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But so many cars went by that she knew she should never be able to do it, that much as she hated life, something bound her to it which she lacked the courage to break. There shot through her mind the memory of a soldier her father used to tell about, who was always first on the field of battle, but had never found the courage to charge.

The afternoon somehow lacked the first ecstasy of the morning, the labour suddenly became harder to unaccustomed muscles, and the girls lay in the shadows of the stooks and idled. They had time to talk among themselves while Ishmael and John-James worked on at the far end of the field.

It lacked but a minute of the stroke of twelve, and the revels at "The Twisted Arm" wild at all times, but wilder to-night than ever were at their noisiest and most exciting pitch. And why not?

However, Pierre's arrival here has changed everything, and placed things in their natural order. Is not that preferable?" He still lacked the courage to understand her. "Preferable! When I'm in agony? When my life is wrecked?" Thereupon she rose and came to him, tall and rigid in her thin black gown, and with an expression of austerity and energy on her pale face.

He was a man terribly in fear of the world's good opinion, who lacked the courage to go through a great and harassing trial in order that something better might come afterwards. His married life had been unhappy. His wife had not submitted either to his will or to his ways.

Their talk and their ideas were worldly and foolish too, and as they lacked the sense and the good taste which might have checked them, they were anything but improving to any girls they came in contact with. Kitty had never liked either of the Kitson girls; they had nothing in common, and everything Lettice and Maude did jarred on her.

They had been chosen to be lieutenants, captains, and even colonels by their men because of faith in their ability to lead, or to recognize their influence in raising the troops. Yet a considerable part of them proved incompetent to command. The disqualifications were various. Some lacked physical strength and stamina. Some had or quickly developed intemperate habits.

"A summons to stay away," said Bob, thereby more or less accurately describing it. "What would you have thought of me if I had not come?" Cynthia was not prepared for any such question as this. She had meant to ask the questions herself. But she never lacked for words to protect herself.

In the heir-apparent to the throne of Moravia, whose influence with the Moravian Prime Minister was considerable, there still remained one obdurate element; but Ian's triumph only lacked the removal of this one obstructive factor, and thereafter England would be secure from foreign attack, if war came in South Africa.

He passed Robin and went to the new-comer, gripping him quickly by the shoulder and turning him back by the way he had come. Jack submitted to the imperative touch. He was taller and broader than his elder brother, but he lacked that subtle something the distinction of bearing which in Richard was very apparent. "Well, Dick! What do you want?" he said. "I'm pretty mad, I can tell you.