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"I had to come, I'm a man not a saint!" he answered. She looked up swiftly, trying to read what lay behind the harsh repression in his tones. She felt as though he were holding something in leash something that strained and fought against restraint. "I'm a man not a saint!" The memory of his renunciation at King Arthur's Castle swept over her.
Thus while Charles gave no attention to anything beyond the Loire, and kept his chief champion there, as it were, on the leash, permitting no return to the most important field of operations, almost all that had been gained was again lost upon the banks of the Seine. This was the state of affairs when Jeanne returned humbled and sad from the abandoned siege of La Charite.
Meanwhile the dust in the field came nearer and nearer, Bobtail was running in his leash and after him the fleet Falcon; then the Assessor and the Notary shouted at once behind them, “At him,” and vanished with the dogs in clouds of dust. While they were thus pursuing the hare, the Count made his appearance near the castle wood.
Not a word could Teig say fear tightened the leash for he was knowing full well there was no good to him that night. "Then ye must die," said the King. "Will ye try hanging or beheading?" "Hanging, please, your Majesty," said Teig. The guards came rushing up and carried him off. But as he was crossing the threshold of the hall a thought sprang at him and held him.
The artist who happens to be moulded according to the modern pattern, however, regards the dreamy gropings and hesitating speech of his nobler colleague with contempt, and leads forth the whole brawling mob of assembled passions on a leash in order to let them loose upon modern men as he may think fit.
Could he but have held his passions in leash, something like friendship rarest of all relations between man and woman might have come about between him and Eve. She, too, certainly had never got beyond the stage of liking him as a companion; her senses had never answered to his appeal He looked back upon the evening when they had dined together at the restaurant in Holborn.
Finally, after depositing his load amid the admiring exclamations of the crowd, he touched their tails with the point of his whip, gave a sudden "Whish!" and like hounds from the leash his horses sprang off at full gallop. One after another the teams from the Front swung round and emptied their loads. "Man! what a crowd!" said Hughie to Don. "There must be a hundred at least."
She was not at all Dizzy, even when she looked down from the Mountain Peak at her happy Birthplace, 15,000 feet below. Willoughby turned out to be a satisfactory Housemate. His Voltage was not high, but he always ate Peas with a Fork and never pulled at the Leash when taken to a Musicale.
But my father kept an eye on me, and held me back as with a leash, My mother was often sorely tried for the lack of things common as dirt these better days. Frequently our only baking-powder was white lye, made by dropping ash-cinders into wafer. Our cinders were made by letting the sap of green timber drip into hot ashes.
She had given a little jerk to the leash, speaking sharply to the poodle in reproach for some lingering near a wonderful sidewalk smell, imperceptible to any one except himself. Instantly the creature rose and walked beside her on his hind legs. He continued to parade in this manner, rapidly, but nevertheless as if casually, without any apparent inconvenience; and Mrs.
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