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Not even a hen pecked or cackled in the yard. He returned to the barn and roused the rest of the party. "I've been looking round," he said, "to see what chance we have of getting breakfast. As far as I can make out the place is deserted." "I wouldn't wonder," said Moylin, "if the man that owns it has cleared out.
And when the craving arises, that is no time to begin asking, 'Is it right, or is it wrong to yield? That question stands small chance of being wisely considered at a moment when, under the goading of roused desire, a man is like a mad bull when it charges.
"Not half bad. Seven thousand dollars for two thousand dollars, and every cent of it realizable." He shook with inward mirth. "The Hon. William Bunning-Ford will now have to disgorge every stick of his estate. Good, good!" Then he relapsed into deep thought. Presently he roused himself from his reverie and prepared for bed. "But I'll give him a chance.
It roused Cis, and she lifted her head, and drew in a long, fluttering breath; but she was too stiff and weary and sore even to realize that a visitor was at the hall door. Once more she laid a pale, tear-stained cheek upon the table. Bang! bang! bang! Now she started up, understanding that help had come.
The moon was low in the West when Sigbert roused the party, having calculated that it would light them on the way, but would be set by the time the attack was to be made.
Here, too, she invariably came when anything had gone wrong, when the endless troubles about money which had weighed upon her all her life became a little less bearable than usual, or when some act of discourtesy or harshness to her father had roused in her a tingling, burning sense of indignation. Erica was not one of those people who take life easily; things went very deeply with her.
And yet William intended to be, and he was, a good ruler. He gave his lands, what was in those days the best proof of good government, and to be had only of a strong king, internal peace. He was patient also, and did not often lose control of himself and yield to the terrible passion which could at last be roused.
You are the only one to take her part! She is an orphan. God has sent you!" Katerina Ivanovna, hardly knowing what she was doing, sank on her knees before him. "A pack of nonsense!" yelled Luzhin, roused to fury, "it's all nonsense you've been talking! 'An idea struck you, you didn't think, you noticed' what does it amount to? So I gave it to her on the sly on purpose? What for? With what object?
The boasting threats of the Spaniards had roused the spirit of the nation, and the whole people "were thoroughly irritated to stir up their whole forces for their defence against such prognosticated conquests; so that in a very short time all her whole realm, and every corner, were furnished with armed men, on horseback and on foot; and those continually trained, exercised, and put into bands in warlike manner, as in no age ever was before in this realm.
No rather she had constantly recollected throughout the day what was going on in Parliament. These were for him testing and critical hours, and she felt a wistful sympathy. Let him only rise to his part take up his great task. An imperious knocking on her thin outer door roused her.
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