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Tears would have poorly expressed the wo which at that moment she felt; and the outlaw, growing impatient of the dumb spectacle, now ventured to approach and interrupt her. She rose, meekly and without reluctance, as he spoke; with a manner which said as plainly as words could have, said 'Command, and I obey.
It is a mystery. It may seem irreverent to approach it even with a conjecture. Human reason should be humble and silent before it, and close its questioning lips. It may not, however, transcend its prerogative to say meekly, perhaps.
In the newspapers and magazines you shall see many poems and papers written by women who meekly term themselves weak, and modestly profess to represent only the weak among their sex discussing the duties which the weak owe to their country in days like these.
"She was willing enough that you should try." "She is meat for my betters," said Harry meekly. "For Master Geoffrey?" The Colonel looked knowing. "Do you know, Harry, I think Master Geoffrey is a pigeon made to be plucked. Well. What was the pretty lady's talk about highwaymen?" Harry looked at his father for some time. "The truth is, I don't understand Benjamin," he said at last.
I have read, somewhere, that the daily life of a poor unknown child, who, striving against sin, does meekly and cheerfully what is given him to do, may be more acceptable in the sight of God than the suffering of some whom their fellow-men crown as martyrs. If we could only forget ourselves and live for others!" She sighed as she rose to go. "But come, child: we must hurry home now."
"Not of men," said Mollie scathingly. "That shows a guilty conscience, Betty. I'm surprised at you." "O-oh! Squelched!" said Betty meekly. "May I ask," she added very humbly, "just what you did mean?" "I simply meant," explained Mollie patiently, "that we were after two men " "Oh!" cried Amy, turning upon her in horror. "And you just told Betty you didn't mean that!"
And how the high-born knaves enjoyed it! White-kidded gentlemen and ladies laughed till the tears came, and clapped their hands in very ecstacy when that unhappy old woman would come meekly out for the sixth time, with uncomplaining patience, to meet a storm of hisses! It was the cruelest exhibition the most wanton, the most unfeeling.
"Seems to me you've a damned lot to answer for," Tell Mapleson hissed in rage. "If the Church can make a holy man out of such a villain, I'm glad I'm a heretic." "I'm answering for it," the priest said meekly. Only my father sat with face impassive and calm. "This half-section of land in question is the property of Thomas O'Meara, son and heir to Patrick O'Meara, as the records show.
Duncan turned and said a comforting word in Gaelic, and Collie, though a Canadian, understood the language of his Highland ancestors, and trotted meekly back to his despised companion on the water-barrel.
"Come at last, eh! and time, too," exclaimed the young knight, as he listlessly held out his hand for his potion of sack. "What, not brought it yet?" he added, as he saw the other's empty hands; "I have been kept waiting for it more than a quarter of an hour." "Will you have it cool or spiced, my lord?" meekly asked Edmund, following up the idea thus thrown out.
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