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Nan said to her: "'You have one daughter who has done the grand marriage stunt and she's some class. Do let us choose for ourselves." "What did your mother say to that?" laughed Ethel. "I think she boxed Nannie's ears and then apologized. She loses her self-control sometimes. Poor mother," and Harvey laughed. "Nannie has some temper, too, and don't you make any mistake."
They know the friend from the enemy. And they know, though he may sometimes fail them, that the Great Mountain is their friend, their father." Menard bowed slowly, facing the chief with self-control as firm as his own. "They know," the Big Throat continued, "that the Indian has not always kept the faith with the white man. And then it is that the Great Mountain has been a kind father.
This was too much for the old woman; past all self-control she flung herself on to a seat that was standing by, covered her face with her hands and began crying bitterly. She felt as if the very ground were snatched from under her feet. Her son was in disgrace with Caesar, and she and her house were threatened by the most powerful woman in the world.
While the first three "love, joy, peace" are emotions within, the remaining six are outward toward others. Notice, "long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness," and then the climax is reached in the last "self-control."
They gave me orders to go in search of you, to regain the mastery over your self-control. My first impulse was to refuse, thinking of your future. But the sacrifice was sweet; selfishness directs our actions ... and I sought you! You know the rest." She became silent, remaining in a pensive attitude, as though relishing this period of her recollection, the most pleasing of her existence.
The child set up a loud crow of delight at the flame. At that moment, even this simple and familiar sound startled its mother out of all power of self-control. She snatched up the child with a vehemence which frightened it into a shrill cry. She feared the nursemaid would come before all the sparks were out; and she tried to quiet the baby by dancing it before the mirror over the mantelpiece.
The number of priestesses is limited to nine." Goldberger pulled at his moustache helplessly. Evidently the witness's calm self-control was not to be broken down, or even ruffled. "Please tell me where you were night before last," said the coroner, finally. "I was in this house." "Did you see Mr. Vaughan?" "I did not." "How did you spend the night?" "In contemplation.
But with a man like John Silence, such a lapse was out of the question, and I sat before my fire counting the minutes and doing everything I could think of to fortify my resolution and fasten my will at the point where I could be reasonably sure that my self-control would hold against all attacks of men, devils, or elementals.
"Roger," she said a little brusquely, dashing the tears out of her eyes, "don't do or say any more kind things to-night, or my self-control will be all gone." "On the contrary, I shall ask you to do me a kindness. Please sit down on this low chair by the fire. Then I can add the last and best picture to this family gallery."
She glanced quickly at the boy on her left, and in the diffused light from the other room could see him distinctly, his eyes open and watching, his lips compressed as if in some tense effort of self-control.
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