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He passed across to the window, closed it and drew the curtains. Then he took that rigid figure gently by the arm. "Mabel," he said, "Mabel." She submitted to be drawn towards the sofa, but there was no response to his touch. He sat down and looked up at her with a kind of despairing apprehension. "My dear, I am tired out," he said. Still she looked at him.
About the same time, in response to some one's complaint, the President of the District Council had been dispatched "in administrative order" to the Olonetsk Government. There were dark rumours about Matov. At the next election a few votes were given in his favour, but not enough. He ceased to have any connexion with the District Council. Matov's money affairs were in a bad state.
"Almost too much so, it seems to me, for a man," his companion said, though with nothing censorious in her manner. She merely expressed a sentiment without showing that it excited unkind feelings. "Or for a woman, either," was the quick response. "True. But if pleased with attentions, and even admiration may we not be excused?" "O, certainly.
She was not alone, facing all those hundreds of curious, critical eyes in the hall below; there was a friend "standing by." She nodded to him reassuringly, suddenly conscious of complete self-mastery. She no longer feared those ranks of upturned faces, row upon row, receding into shadow at the further end of the hall, and she bowed composedly in response to the applause that greeted her.
To one of these delegations of ministers, Lincoln gave a response which while homely in its language must have presented to his callers a vivid picture of the burdens that were being carried by the leader of the state: "Gentlemen," he said, "suppose all the property you possess were in gold, and you had placed it in the hands of Blondin to carry across the Niagara River on a rope.
He had drawn up before a low, brightly-lit interior. In response to the call a figure appeared on the threshold of the open door. The figure stood there for a long instant, rubbing its hands, as it peered out into the dusk of the night to take a good look at us.
"I knew it!" she declared emphatically. "It's not the way of ships to go around being sunk by whales, is it, captain?" "No, madam, I assure you it is not," was his response. "Nevertheless, all the five men insist upon it." "Sailors are notorious for their unveracity, are they not?" the lady voiced her flat conclusion in the form of a tentative query. "Worst liars I ever saw, madam.
The other division he himself led against Tecumseh's Indians. The Indians waited under protection of the thick brush until the horsemen were within close range; then in response to Tecumseh's war cry all fired. Johnson's advance guard was nearly cut down. The horses could not advance. Johnson ordered his men to dismount and a terrible struggle followed.
Wall Street and the bankers of the country were well prepared and responded with all their strength, a response which deserves the greater credit when we remember the lack of sympathy which had existed between financial circles and President Wilson's Administration. Largely under banking auspices the greatest selling campaign on record was inaugurated.
Bellingham in Barnard's favourite lop-sided easy chair the depressed seat of which suggested its customary use by an elephant of sedentary habits and opened the diminutive piano. "I wonder if Miss Bellingham would give us a little music?" I said. "I wonder if she could?" was the smiling response. "Do you know," she continued, "I have not touched a piano for nearly two years?
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