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She did not fear him; nothing could frighten her now. One desire held her. If it were unslaked, she felt she would collapse. It was to know the truth, to be told everything! He put restraining fingers on her ungloved hand; they seemed like cold, fat spiders. Yet she was only curious, with a curiosity that murdered the spirit within her.
"Let's put the radio out of commission." Stone also leaped up and laid a restraining hand on his arm. "No, no. Wait a minute. The damage is done already. These fellows already have given sufficient warning to put them on guard at the ranch, even though they can't have told the whole story." They stood undecided, looking at each other, in the starlit darkness.
"Your horses are up the hill, Mr. West," he said pointedly. It is doubtful whether the trader heard. He could not keep his desirous eyes from the girl. "Is she a half or a quarter-breed?" he asked McRae. "That'll be her business and mine, sir. Will you please tak the road?" The hunter spoke quietly, restraining himself from an outbreak. But his voice carried an edge.
Yet I remembered certain restraining precepts: first, that law of art which condemns incongruity requires everything to be in keeping with its natural surroundings and which therefore, for one thing, makes an American garden the best possible sort of garden to have in America; second, that twin art law, against inutility, which demands that everything in an artistic scheme serve the use it pretends to serve; third, a precept of Colonel Waring's: "Don't fool with running water if you haven't money to fool away"; and, fourth, that best of all gardening rules look before you leap.
This rebuke during the sober hours of school paled much of the glory of the Wild West for me and the confused puffy face of Leo Dillon awakened one of my consciences. But when the restraining influence of the school was at a distance I began to hunger again for wild sensations, for the escape which those chronicles of disorder alone seemed to offer me.
He fell back with an oath, a patch of fingermarks showing red on his white countenance. "That blow has killed Florimond de Condillac," he told her viciously. "He dies at noon to-morrow. Ponder it, my pretty." "I care not what you do so that you leave me," she answered defiantly, restraining by a brave effort the tears of angry distress that welled up from her stricken heart.
In most countries superstition renders him a useless being, makes him an abject slave, causes him to tremble under its terrors, or else turns him into a furious fanatic, who is at once cruel, intolerant, and inhuman: in a great number of states arbitrary power crushes him, obliges him to become a cringing sycophant, renders him completely vicious: in those despotic states the law rarely visits crime with punishment, except in those who are too feeble to oppose its course? or when it has become incapable of restraining the violent excesses to which a bad government gives birth.
Were it possible, in the meantime, to devise any effectual method for restraining hostilities, it would gladly be embraced. On the 8th of July, the royal commissioners inquired what guarantee the states would be willing to give, that the decision of the general assembly, whatever it might be, should be obeyed.
The bare thought of it brought the mad wickedness in me to its climax. I became suddenly incapable of restraining myself. I threw my arm round her waist with a loud laugh. "Come," I said, trying to drag her across the deck "come and look at the water." She released herself by a sudden effort of strength that astonished me.
"I came here to meet your son, and therefore you will pardon me if I take my leave of you." With a deep courtesy she was about to move away, when the Duke laid a restraining grip upon her arm. "Permit me, my child," said he, endeavoring to put on a kind and paternal tone, "let me say a few words to you. Do you know why Norbert did not come to meet you?" "He has doubtless some very good reason."
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