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In the earphones was a crackle of frantic questions, a gabble of orders screaming at him. Let them rave, they'd know soon enough what it was all about. Oddly enough, in spite of the tension which must have boiled within him, Rip brought them in with a perfect four fin-point landing one which, under the circumstances, must win him the respect of master star-star pilots from the Rim.
Major George's visit was prolonged, and Miss Constantia's visit was prolonged far beyond the period allotted to her sisters; and Uncle Elliston gradually ceased to rave at 'Impossible! But a terrible climax approached, and how it came about no one ever knew: Major George set off for Paris early one fine morning, and Miss Constantia appeared at the breakfast-table with eyes red and swollen with weeping.
"Sister mine, because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing? What is your love for Tom Faggus?
And she retired, leaving the modiste in a state of much astonishment, approaching resentment. The idea was outrageous, a woman with such divinely fair skin, a woman with the bosom of a Venus, and arms of a shape to make sculptors rave, and yet she actually wished to hide these beauties from the public gaze!
Again, the Elohim possess, or inspire, people against their will, as in the case of Saul and Saul's messengers, and then these people prophesy that is to say, "rave" and exhibit the ungoverned gestures attributed by a later age to possession by malignant spirits.
Milton, in his Hymn for the Nativity, thus alludes to the fable of the Halcyon: "But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began; The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kist, Whispering new joys to the mild ocean Who now hath quite forgot to rave While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave."
Keep cool and we'll come alongside," ordered Captain Stewart. "Not the least harm done in the world." But the woman continued to shriek and rave until Mrs. Harold said: "I would like to shake her soundly. If she had been paying any attention to the child the accident never could have happened."
He finished with a tirade about God's providing such a knight errant to-day to save the nation and Christianity against the onslaught of the heathen Turk, with an inference in his last words that he was to be the chosen savior. When the two women heard Don Quixote again rave in this manner, they burst into tears, and the curate and the barber were as sorry and concerned as the women.
"Nay, you can come all the better if he is out," replied Jennariello, "for perhaps he might not allow you the pleasure; and I'll promise to show you such splendid things as will make you rave such necklaces and earrings, such bracelets and sashes, such workmanship in paper in short I will perfectly astound you."
If nothing but my death or ruin can suffice for my atonement, I will sacrifice either with joy; yes, I'll proclaim my passion aloud, proclaim it at Bellfont, own the dear criminal flame, fly to my Philander's aid and be undone; for thus I cannot, no, I will not live, I rave, I languish, faint and die with pain; say that you live, oh, say but that you live, say you are coming to the meadow behind the garden-grove, in order to your approach to my arms: oh, swear that all your vows are true; oh, swear that you are Sylvia's; and in return, I will swear that I am yours without reserve, whatever fate is destined for your