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I knew that there was no cabaret between us and Flushing, for I took particular notice as I came along; so I took the road to Middelburg, and found but one, which was full of soldiers. I passed it, and found no other. As I came back past the same cabaret, one of the soldiers came out to me, but I walked along the road. He quickened his pace, and so did I mine, for I expected mischief.
They must have impressed upon him those ideas of order and logical arrangement which he afterwards carried out in his writings, and which separate them so markedly from the confused, inconsistent license of the older literature of Italy; and he could not have resided in the birthplace of Livy, in constant association with the highest minds of the time, as a member of a University then the most famous in Europe, numbering no less than ten thousand students from all parts of the world, without his intellectual life being greatly quickened.
Reimers quickened his pace. Once only Hannah Gropphusen broke the silence: "You have hurt your hand?" she asked. "Yes no I don't know." It was almost dark when they reached her garden gate. "Show me your hand," she said gently. Reimers held it out to her in silence. His wrist was a good deal swollen. Hannah bent down suddenly and breathed a hasty kiss on the injured member.
But presently he seemed to assert authority over his fumbling body and to come erect. His hands clenched at his sides, his head came up stiffly and stayed, and with quickened footsteps he marched rigidly forward towards the Manor. Then she guessed at the truth, and as soon as she saw his face she was sure beyond peradventure that he knew. His figure darkened the doorway.
They were his theatre, his opera, his library, his lecture hall. He rehearsed them again there on the cars. He never wearied of them. To be sure, other thoughts had come to him at night. Much that to most men seems complex and puzzling had grown to appear simple to him. In a way his brain had quickened and deepened through the years of solitude. He had thought out a great many things.
But when he came to that portion which related to the adventure of Ned Hinkley, to his espionage, the conference of Stevens with his companion then she started then her breathing became suspended, then quickened then again suspended and then, so rapid in its rush, that her emotion became almost too much for her powers of suppression.
These delays under such a hot fire grew exceedingly irksome, and I therefore pushed the head of my division as quickly as I could toward the river in column files of twos parallel in the narrow way by the cavalry. This quickened the forward movement and enabled me to get into position as speedily as possible for the attack.
The hours were just sixty minutes, and the minutes just sixty seconds. The clock ticked on as usual. It was unmoved by all the excitement, and never, for an instant, quickened its pace. When Saturday came, their mother proposed that the presents should be distributed that evening.
The little auditor shuddered, and when she buried her face deeper in the bosom of her parent, it was with a more quickened sense of maternal affection, and with a livelier view, than her infant perception had ever yet known, of the gentle charities of kindred.
It must surely in the first place include the assiduous practice of charity, for exterior mortifications without charity are of no account. St. Paul, we know, reckons martyrdom itself as nothing, unless quickened by charity. "I do not exactly know what standard of perfection they who insist so much upon exterior mortification wish to set up.
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