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A few moments after he was still meditating, in the dark, in the wretched little bed of his cell, on the salutary and evident effects of the divine grace which he had sought in the sacraments. He meditated also on the action of the Moro, on the ray of light that had shone into that dark conscience, harbinger, if nothing less, of better and lasting light.

"Then we must protect ourselves," he answered, phlegmatically. Thereupon the coterie of miscreants separated, to pass away the hours as best they might, until the time for the brilliant stroke they meditated arrived. The Count of Monte-Cristo was in his study, pacing to and fro; he was plunged in thought, and an expression indicative of deep concern was upon his pale, but resolute countenance.

Through her I learned that much pains had been taken to intensify and excite into active hostility the dislike and distrust with which they had always been regarded by the public at large, and especially by the scientific guilds, whose members control all educational establishments. That some attempt against them was meditated appeared to be generally reported.

Some day he would tell her and then ask permission to kill the blackguard for her. The train had scuttered across many a mile while he meditated the answer to the latest riddle. His thoughts were so turbulent that Charity finally intruded. "What's on your mind, Jim?" "Oh, I was just thinking." "What about?" "Oh, things."

'Deil be in me but I'll put this het gad down her throat! cried he in an ecstasy of wrath, snatching a bar from the forge; and he might have executed his threat, had he not been withheld by a part of the mob, while the rest endeavoured to force the termagant out of his presence. Waverley meditated a retreat in the confusion, but his horse was nowhere to be seen.

"That too is an utter folly." "There are such things as necessary follies." "You are not reflecting; you are speaking in passion." "Why then do you make me speak?" Rowland meditated a moment. "Is it also necessary that you should lose the best friend you have?" Roderick looked up. "That 's for you to settle!"

It would appear to all that they meditated escape. But they urged upon Colin to try to see it all, and bring word again what had befallen. Colin was nothing loth. He longed to be in the thick of the struggle.

His first impulse was to return and let the inmates of Willow Creek know what had occurred; but be thinking himself that they would find it out the first time they chanced to look from the windows on that side of the house, and observing that the day was advancing, he changed his mind and rowed away in the direction of the plains, chuckling heartily as he meditated on the very peculiar alterations which the flood had effected on the properties of his father and Samuel Ravenshaw, to say nothing of the probable result in regard to his own future.

Or not so, on account of difference. This is not so, for as Brahman is to be meditated upon in two different abodes, the meditations are separate. In both the Sandilya-vidyas, on the other hand, Brahman is to be meditated upon as abiding within the heart. The text also declares this.

Society put Jean Valjean in prison; that was evident, too. In prison, Society took away his refinement; that is evident, likewise. Who is Society? You and I are Society. My friend, you and I stole those candlesticks! The Bishop thought so, too. He meditated profoundly for six days. On the morning of the seventh he went to the Prefecture of Police. He said: "Monsieur, have me arrested.