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Nay, we envied America a man capable of giving such magnificent expression to the passion and determination of all free nations, in face of the German challenge. Then came the days of disappointment. Troops arrived at a more leisurely pace in France than had been hoped.
He had the strained look of a man who sees great things, as yet far away, and who would hasten toward them. Insensibly he quickened his pace. "But I can't go myself, so why can't I send a proxy?" Clayton asked, smiling. "I've an idea I'd be well represented." "That's a fine way to look at it, but I can't do it. I've saved something, not much, but it will do for a year or two.
Blows, "I'll give you something to holler for." He pursued his way grumbling, and insensibly slackened his pace as he drew near home. A remnant of conscience which had stuck to him without encouragement for thirty-five years persisted in suggesting that he had behaved badly. It also made a few ill-bred inquiries as to how his wife and children had subsisted for the last three months.
At eight we encamped among a small clump of willows. On the 6th we set out at an early hour, pursuing our route over a range of hills at the foot of one of which we saw several large pines and a great quantity of willows, a sight that encouraged us to quicken our pace as we were now certain we could not be far from the woods.
She sent the pair across the hills at a splendid pace, and drove them under the old archway and down the stony street with a style which won the admiration of every experienced eye.
With the growth of the work, ability to provide for it seemed to keep pace, and modifications in the management were adopted as necessity dictated. Not much was anticipated at the commencement beyond furnishing a mug of coffee and a roll of bread, but it soon became apparent that something more than this was needed.
"And we go up the hill and start off down the other side. "When we get down on the flat, you begin putting on the pace, to see if you can go as fast as I can and it's all I can do to keep up with you. And your cheeks are red as roses, and you're so hot you take off your kerchief and fasten it round your waist like a sash.
Few pieces of artillery were brought up on either side; the rapidity of the movements on both having outstripped the slow pace at which those ponderous implements of destruction were then conveyed. Hardly were these defensive arrangements completed, when the tempest was upon them.
He went a convict, he came again a sailor. He wore a score of uniforms in almost as many seconds. I began by saying that changing your mind is for all the world like changing your clothes. It is less tedious, however. I have no idea how my London friend managed to change his garments many times in a minute. But many a magician has made me change my mind at a lightning pace. Yes, many a magician.
At last out from the maelstrom of that wild mêlée but a single warrior seemed to face me; and some instinct of the fight caused me to draw back a pace and wipe the obscuring blood away, that I might see him better. It came to me that this was to be the end, the final duel which was to decide that midnight battle.
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