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While this regiment of a very dolorous army is gathering together, and forming silently and passively into the long queue, we look at the ancient obelisk, and our mind is carried backward to the days of old, when the old stone stood in the pride of its early life, and with its clear-cut hieroglyphics spoke to the wonderful people who comprised the great nation of antiquity.
Let it then be the task of our diplomacy so to shuffle the cards that we may be attacked by France, for then there would be reasonable prospect that Russia for a time would remain neutral. This view undoubtedly deserves attention, but we must not hope to bring about this attack by waiting passively. Neither France nor Russia nor England need to attack in order to further their interests.
The play consists of a crisis in three lives, passively, though sympathetically, contemplated by what is in effect a Chorus of two men and two women.
She felt, desperately, that she could not let him go until he had had some real joy. To think that she used to plan, cold-bloodedly, when Billy was little, all she would do if only Martin should happen to die! The memory of it smote her as with a blow. She looked down at the powerful hand lying so passively, almost, she would have said, contentedly, in her own.
She lay there passively; but her body stiffened a little, and her lips remained quite still and unresponsive beneath his. "Diana! . . . Beloved! . . ." She thrust her hands against his chest. "Let me go," she whispered breathlessly, "Let me go. I can't bear you to touch me." With a quick, determined movement she freed herself, and stood a little away from him, panting.
Perhaps the chloroform, if she had no objection to it, would be the best. "Did you ever take chloroform?" I asked. "No: I never needed it," she answered. "Should you object to taking it?" "Any thing." she replied, passively. "I will do any thing you wish." I went back into the kitchen and opened the portmanteau my father had put up for me.
But now they had become more his life than the scenes which he had left; this land with its heats and its languors had slowly and passively endeared itself to him; these perpetual summers, the balms and blisses of the South, had unconsciously become a need of his nature. One day all was ready for his departure; and in the clipper ship Osprey, with a cargo for Day, Knight, and Company, Mr.
However, she passively placed herself in her hands, and the work of transformation began. "Now, look!" exclaimed the landlady, at length. "What do you think of yourself now?" and she placed a hand glass before her. Dorothy uttered a low cry. Could that face be her own at which she gazed in the mirror's depths? Was she the old woman represented there?
But she was too old, and had suffered too deeply from the war, in body and mind and estate, ever to reconcile herself to the changed order of things following the return of peace; and, with an unsound yet perfectly explainable logic, she visited some of her displeasure upon those who had profited most, though passively, by her losses. "I always feared something would happen to Mary," she said.
'The only thing to warm one, said he, shuddering from head to foot. 'Yes, warm you properly into a nice little fever and inflammation. Why, what a hand you have! And your pulse! Here, lie down at once, as he formed a couch with the help of a wrapper and bag. Arthur passively accepted his care; but as the chill again crept through his veins, he stretched out his hand for the cordial.
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