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'Afternoon tea is an abominable waste of time! said the Squire discontentedly, facing her with a Greek pot under each arm. 'Do you think so? To me it's always the pleasantest meal in the day. The voice was musical and attractive, but its complete self-possession produced a vague irritation in the Squire.
This, her execrated word, coming from his mouth, vanquished her self-possession. "Are you cold?" he said, seeing the ripple of a trembling run over her. "I am not cold. I cannot remain here." Rhoda tightened her intertwisting fingers across under her bosom. "Don't try to kill my sister outright. She's the ghost of what she was. Be so good as to go. She will soon be out of your reach.
But this tripped him, stripped him momentarily of his self-possession. "Me!" he deprecated. "Pshaw! I'm no box-fighter! I don't box!" "Sure you don't," the huge man agreed, eagerly and instantly. "That's what I saw as I watched you from the window, arguing with your fr your acquaintance. The whole world is full of box-fighters who box.
"I don't at least I scarcely know; but I think the author ought to have made her save him, someway. If if she could have suffered something, or sacrificed something " "Would she have done it if she could?" commented Denis, languidly. He had quite recovered himself by this time. "I would have done it if I had been Marguerite," Theo half whispered. In his surprise he forgot his self-possession.
By heaven, it is so! you are come as a spy into the camp of the Indians to steal away the councils of the chiefs. Speak, what have you heard?" With these questions returned the calm and self-possession of the officer. He at once saw the importance of his answer, on which hung not merely his own last faint chance of safety, but that also of his generous deliverer.
Lewisham having assisted the slatternly general servant to carry in his boxes, paid the cabman a florin in a resolute manner and followed the ladies into the sitting-room. Ethel answered Madam Gadow's inquiries with admirable self-possession, followed her through the folding-doors and displayed an intelligent interest in a new spring mattress. Presently the folding-doors were closed again.
He required a few minutes' breathing time to recover his self-possession, and the girls drove off alone, not at all sorry, if the truth were told, to be deprived of his company. "Well, Fuzzy!" cried Tom. "Well, Tom!" cried Rhoda, and stared with wondering eyes at the unaccustomed grandeur of her friend's attire.
When wondering much at my aunt's fortitude and self-possession, she afterwards told me that she lifted her heart to God in earnest prayer, and there came to her the comforting remembrance of these words. "Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Alas! what a scene presented itself out of doors.
The imprisoned men were the two who had most completely retained their coolness and self-possession throughout the whole of the reverses which had befallen the party; it was their fertile brains which had devised the audaciously daring plan of escape, and without them the rest of the party felt that they dare not do anything for fear of marring the whole scheme.
After what Hugh had already heard, he could only conclude that reminiscences of her theatrical career had tempted the solitary actress to make a private appearance, for her own pleasure, in one of those tragic characters to which her husband had alluded. She recovered her self-possession on Mountjoy's appearance, with the ease of a mistress of her art.
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