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"A beggar woman whined at the window: "'Could ye give me a trifle for a cup of coffee, lady? "The lady looked at the beggar reproachfully. "'Good gracious! she said. 'Here you have the nerve to ask me for money when I've been tangoing for you the whole night through! Home, James. "And she snapped the window shut in the beggar's face indignantly."
"You've got a nerve," he went on, "bringing those devils into the country don't you know they're as treacherous as a rattlesnake? No, you've been going too far; and it's a question with me whether I won't report the whole business to the sheriff. But what's the use of making trouble? All I want is that contract and this time I reckon I'll get it."
Chet seemed satisfied to go on placidly painting toys or weaving chains with his great, square-tipped fingers the fingers that had wielded the pliers so cleverly in his pole-climbing days. "It's just something that only luck or an accident can mend," said the nerve specialist. "Time may do it but I doubt it. Sometimes just a word the right word will set the thing in motion again.
Nobody could; nobody could ever have dreamed of such a thing. You couldn't expect a person would fall in love with a wax-work. And this one doesn't even amount to that." He went on grieving to himself, and now and then giving voice to his lamentations. "It's done, oh, it's done, and there's no help for it, no undoing the miserable business. If I had the nerve, I would kill it.
The new arrivals felt little doubt that their colleague was indeed dead, nor, when they heard of the last catastrophe, and presently stood by Septimus May, could they feel the most shadowy suspicion that life might be restored to him. Sir Walter found his nerve steadied on the arrival of these men. Indeed, by comparison with other trials, the ordeal before him now seemed of no complexity.
They knew, and were justly proud, of their physical condition, and they hated to acknowledge, even to themselves, that the rest of us were more enduring. As a consequence they played on their nerve, beyond their physical powers. When the collapse came it was complete.
One of the most important lessons that can be impressed on the human mind, is that of self-knowledge and a just apprehension of what it is that we are competent to achieve. We can do much. We are capable of much knowledge and much virtue. We have patience, perseverance and subtlety. We can put forth considerable energies, and nerve ourselves to resist great obstacles and much suffering.
He arose and ran on as fast as before. Those that run at large will get in the water where it will cover them and stand with their noses out for half a day. The fourth day out at San Pedro Macati we had a bush skirmish and some hard fighting for about two hours. This was my first fighting and I have to confess to being a little frightened this time, but kept my nerve on all other occasions.
Eyes, ears, and nose all began on the surface, and sank gradually into the head, so as to be surrounded and protected, leaving just opening enough at the surface to allow smells, light-rays, and sound-waves to enter; and all of them have at their bottom, or deepest part, a sensitive patch of surface, which catches the light, or the smells, or the sounds, and sends them by a special nerve to the brain.
It came to him now how much wiser it would have been had he shouted from the balcony, instead of waiting to descend. If he had done that the men might have been stopped before they got away. But it was all so unbelievable that he hadn't the nerve to cry out. Had he been mistaken, a pretty sort of fool he would have appeared; besides, he had not thought of it.
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