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They say they'll take us somewhere, I don't quite know where; but in Fijian, the word would certainly mean to heaven." Muriel shuddered visibly. "You don't think," she said, with a tremulous tongue, "they mean to kill us?" "No, I don't think so," Felix replied, not over-confidently. "They said we were Taboo. But with savages like these, of course, one can never in any case be quite certain."
His strong will and natural modesty about himself constantly repressed any desire he might have to speak over-confidently of ultimate success, so that the prediction of ultimate success by some one else was doubly sweet to him. We Americans have said of ourselves that we are the only nation who accomplish what we have boasted of.
"And you have done this for me?" she cried, when at last he paused, "you have ruined your career and endangered your life?" La Boulaye shrugged his shoulders. "I spoke over-confidently when I said that I could obtain you the Vicomte's pardon. There proved to be a factor on which I had not counted. Nevertheless, what I had promised I must fulfil.
Meanwhile his most intimate companion was a younger brother of his old tutor Mylius, a young man of more than questionable morals, and who had even written a satire on the elders of Camenz, for which over-confidently trusting himself in the outraged city he had been fined and imprisoned; so little could the German Muse, celebrated by Klopstock for her swiftness of foot, protect her son.
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