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They had been very uneasy and restless under the progress which the queen had been making in silencing Protestant preachers, and bringing back Catholic rites and ceremonies; and now, if they found that their queen was going to marry so rigid and uncompromising a Catholic as Philip of Spain, they would be doubly alarmed.
Park appeared pleased; and without any hope of at present making his escape, on account of the excessive heat, he resolved to wait patiently for the rainy season. Overcome with melancholy, and having passed a restless night, in the morning he was attacked by a fever.
Seventy or eighty years ago Napoleon was the only man in Europe who could really be called a traveler; he was the only man who had devoted his attention to it and taken a powerful interest in it; he was the only man who had traveled extensively; but now everybody goes everywhere; and Switzerland, and many other regions which were unvisited and unknown remotenesses a hundred years ago, are in our days a buzzing hive of restless strangers every summer.
Roosevelt is of restless, active, pioneering structure the bony, muscular type of man who has always led reform movements and led in fighting for changes he thought would add to the freedom of humanity. Mr. Taft's texture is finer than that of Mr. Roosevelt. He is, therefore, more interested in the refinements, the luxuries, and the delicacies of life than is Mr. Roosevelt.
Mercer made a restless movement. "He will be on his legs again in a day or two. One of the men must look after him." "I shall look after him," Sybil said, with a calmness of resolution that astounded both her hearers. Mercer put his hand on her shoulder, but said nothing. It was Curtis who spoke with the voice of authority. "You will have to take care of her," he said bluntly.
And thus his mind both in and out of his lodgings might have appeared to have been fully occupied with the concerns of others. But there were times when the miserable luxury of dwelling upon his own affairs was his when he lay down in his bed till he fell into restless sleep when the point to which his steps tended in his walks was ascertained.
I have not got up half what I meant to have done. Here, do take this book try me whether I know this properly." So they went on, Ethel doing her best to help and encourage, and Norman in an excited state of restless despair, which drove away half his senses and recollection, and his ideas of the superior powers of public schoolboys magnifying every moment.
Oliver levelled his keen eyes on him, as though noting down observations, while he was burning for tidings of Mary, yet held back by reserve and sense of the uncongeniality of the man. His aunt, however, in the midst of her own joy, marked his restless eye, and put the question, whether Mary Ponsonby had arrived? 'Ha! you let her go, did you? said Oliver, turning on Louis.
She heard the clock strike four, and was pleased to find that it was so near day. Still the time seemed very long to her, who lay there wondering, conjecturing and speculating on the strange adventure of the night. When the sun arose she left her restless bed, bathed her excited head and proceeded to dress herself.
It was the beating of drums, the call of the bugles that he heard as he thought of it; the blood tingled in his veins, he forgot that other pain which had driven him forth so restless a short hour ago. The great dark waters of the river had some special message to give him this evening.
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