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"If he has a legal claim to it," Wrayson said, "he had better offer his reward openly. He would probably help himself then, and also those who are anxious to have this mystery solved." "Are you amongst those, Mr. Wrayson?" his visitor asked quietly. Wrayson started slightly, but he retained his self-composure. "I am very much amongst them," he answered.
Nevertheless, he dreaded to hear him speak again of her; and the fear was realized in a question. "Does she know you are here?" "Who?" said Brant curtly. "Your wife. That is I reckon she's your wife still, eh?" "Yes; but I do not know what she knows," returned Brant quietly. He had regained his self-composure. "Susy, Mrs.
Religion, always inspired by God in the choice and formation of the terms which it employs to convey the ideas that it wishes to impress upon the heart, has invented two words, which admirably express the meaning of the concentration of the faculties of the soul, in other words, that society or cohabitation of man with himself they are self-composure and recollection.
The females received their visiter with a restraint which will be easily understood when the subject of their recent conversation is recollected. The sinking of Gertrude's form was deep and hurried, but her governess maintained the coldness of her air with greater self-composure.
He greeted Jimmy Torrance almost affably, but he lost something of his self-composure when Mason Compton arrived at the office, for Bince had been sure that his employer would be laid up for at least another week, during which time Murray would have completed his work. The noon mail brought a letter from Murray. "Show the enclosed to Compton," it read.
He 'had received good at the hand of the Lord, and should he not receive evil? But now, when real love and real affection appear, his heart melts in him; he loses his forced self-composure, and bursts into a passionate regret that he had ever been born. In the agony of his sufferings, hope of better things had died away.
Will you not tell me yours?" Having retreated a full yard from him, Ephie regained some of her native self-composure. For the first time, she found herself able to look straight at him. "No," she said, with a touch of her usual lightness. "I shall leave you to find it out for yourself; it will give you something to do." They both laughed.
Aunt Jane, who always felt responsible for whatever went on in the elements, sat in-doors with one lid closed, wincing at every flash, and watching the universe with the air of a coachman guiding six wild horses. Just after the storm had passed its height, two veritable wild horses were reined up at the door, and Philip burst in, his usual self-composure gone.
Walter was wholly overcome by this address: he pressed his good uncle's hand to his lips, and it was some moments before he mustered self-composure sufficient to reply. "You have ever, ever been to me all that the kindest parent, the tenderest friend could have been: believe me, I am not ungrateful. If of late I have been altered, the cause is not in you.
It was delightful to see so many tiny beings stand around you, dressed in their tidy gowns and frocks, with their bright morning faces, and read with the self-composure of manhood, any passage chosen for them. They all, large and small, bore in their hands the charter of their freedom, the book by the influence of which they received all the privileges they were enjoying.
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