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He would have again sought refuge in his passive, non-committal attitude, but he knew the impersonal character of Indian retribution and compensation a sacrifice of equal value, without reference to the culpability of the victim and he dreaded some spontaneous outbreak.
For one wild moment his lodger contemplated the chances which lay in knocking him down, and taking refuge in flight, but he reflected that if the house were alarmed he would not get off, and if not, it might be possible to enlist M. Plon on his side. He therefore went quietly back into the room, saying, "Do not fear, M. Plon.... I give you my word, I am not going to fight."
This has ever been a refuge of ambitious minds that cannot rise by any other means above the dullness of the peasant's life, which is the more endurable the more the man is able to place himself upon the animal level of his plodding ox. The son was being educated in a seminary, but he was now home for the holidays. Presently he appeared.
We must endeavour to change it for you. 'I beg your pardon, sir, I faltered. 'I have never meant to be sullen since I came back. 'Don't take refuge in a lie, sir! he returned so fiercely, that I saw my mother involuntarily put out her trembling hand as if to interpose between us. 'You have withdrawn yourself in your sullenness to your own room.
Truly it is of long standing." "Still I pray Allah that it may increase. Have we not sat a considerable time in your blessed presence have you not given us refuge? All we now ask is the name and profession of one so amiable and so kind-hearted?" "Enough," replied the host, pacified with the pretended humility of the vizier. "Silence, and listen. Do you see that skin which hangs over my head?"
In the month of May the Russians advanced, with such energy and in such force that the anterior works were soon taken, and the mountaineers found themselves obliged to take refuge in their final fortress of defence. The fight here was fierce and persistent. Step by step the Russians made their way, pushing their parallels against the intrenched works of their foes.
Thomson found only the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters of those who had fled; some of them so poor as not to know how or where they could find their daily bread, yet apparently without fear. He overtook the fugitive people the next day, who were half perishing with hunger. Abeih was their place of refuge; and there they remained till October, zealously attending upon religious instruction.
But he took alarm instantly. "You won't mind my telling you a few things for your own good, will you?" he asked, taking refuge in the safe rôle of mentor. "Not a bit," said Bobby; "fire away." She listened for five minutes to his dissertation on the impropriety of young ladies playing poker in the smoking-room, then she became restive.
He fled from his palace, and sought a retreat in certain gardens near acting in this, however, under the influence of a blind and instinctive fear, rather than from any rational hope of securing his safety by seeking such a place of refuge. In fact, he was now perfectly distracted with terror.
A touchingly-beautiful figure amid the drama of the Napoleonic days was this gentle and yet high-spirited queen, who, when she had descended from the throne and had ceased to be a sovereign, exhausted and weary of life, found refuge at length in the grave, yet still survived among us as a queen no longer, indeed, a queen of nations, but the Queen of Flowers.
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