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These Fecials, or guardians of peace, seem to have had their name from their office, which was to put a stop to disputes by conference and speech; for it was not allowable to take up arms until they had declared all hopes of accommodation to be at an end, for in Greek, too, we call it peace when disputes are settled by words, and not by force.
Promises do not tempt me, nor presents sap my resolution, nor obsequiousness allure, nor amorous wiles ensnare me; and although by my grandmother's reckoning I shall be but fifteen next Michaelmas, I am already old in thought, and have more understanding than my years would seem to promise.
That was glorious! That brightened up creation. By this time I needed food also, but I did not remain below to eat it. I brought my breakfast on deck, keeping my eyes all the time fixed upon Bertha's steamer. The distance between us did not seem to have varied. How I longed for a little breeze that might bring us together!
"Would I dare to trifle with you, Miss Middleton?" "I have reason to know it cannot be." "If I have a head, it is a fresh and blooming truth. And more I stake my vanity on it!" "Let me go to her." She stepped. "Consider," said he. "Miss Dale and I are excellent friends. It would not seem indelicate to her. She has a kind of regard for me, through Crossjay. Oh, can it be?
The relentless ball of fire in the heavens, pouring down like molten brass, appeared to be trying to set the world on fire; and I lay utterly exhausted on my horse's neck, half expecting to see all kindled in one mighty blaze! I had drunk the hot, putrid water of the hollows, which did not seem to quench my thirst any, but perhaps did help to keep me from drying up and blowing away.
While there was that enchanting freshness about her which is more than the mere freshness of youth or of physical health which would seem, indeed, to be the peculiar dowry of those women who, having once known love in all its completeness and its strength, of choice live ever afterwards in perfect chastity of act and thought.
As ridiculous as this may seem, I have often considered some of the lower officers in our civil government to be disposed in this very manner.
I jest went out huntin' for suthin' to fit in with the sportin' blood as I found it in this place and I reckon I got it! Mebbe 'twas a cassowary, mebbe 'twas a dodo the man himself didn't know said even the hen that hatched it didn't seem to know. 'Pologized to me for asking me two dollars for it, and I gave him five. I hope it will go back where it come from. It hurt my eyes to look at it.
"Here is the church covered with the same ivy none gone, none added." "Yonder is the inn, the old Red Lion, and yonder is the market-place." "Here is the Maypole, and here the pump nothing is altered; nothing but the people, at any rate; ten years make a change in people; some of these I seem to know, but none know me." So his chat ran on.
As a boy, he'd enjoyed daydreaming that he himself might make a discovery as unsettling as that particular one of Nannstein's, but so far he hadn't, and it didn't seem at all likely he would. On the other hand, it was just the unlikeliness of such a discovery one that completely reversed a commonly-held idea that made it so unsettling.
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