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No longer afraid of being overheard, he gave kind attention to Leonard's letter; and though he turned away from the subject sooner than she wished, she was not exacting. Again he laid before her the advantages of their migration, and assured her that if there were the slightest risk he would be the last to make the proposal.
"If you must have it, you shall;" and he squared up to him to administer righteous punishment. And then the futility of it came upon him. The man was three-parts drunk, in no condition for a fight, scarce able to attempt even to defend himself. No punishment of Tom drunk would have the slightest moral effect on Tom sober.
He would have supported her to the sofa, but she shrank from him; and, leaning more heavily on the chair, said 'Do you not know, Louis, all that must be at an end? 'I know no such thing. My father is here on purpose to assure you that it makes not the slightest difference to him. 'Yours! Yes!
None of the other men except the cavalry officer, who drew in his legs slightly took the slightest interest in this poor wretch a handsome lad with square-cut features and fair tousled hair, who had tried to get courage out of absinthe before leaving for the war.
He knew that there probably would be not the slightest chance for escape; but nevertheless the idea was always uppermost in his thoughts. His whole being revolted, not alone against the injustice which had sent him into life imprisonment, but at the thought of the long years of awful monotony which lay ahead of him. He could not endure them. He would not!
However, no one had, so far as I could see, paid the slightest attention to the pony, and the probabilities were that he was already headed for Baldwin's ranch, with no likelihood of his stopping till he reached home.
But it occasionally happens that the poor mariners are not aware of the dangers of their navigation; for although at the edge of the water it is generally calm, in the middle it is always more rough. The slightest additional gust of wind often oversets the little sailor and his vessel altogether.
That is, of course, intensely human. We judge others by ourselves. A famous manager once said to me, as he pointed to an empty house, "The public is amazing. Give them what they like, and they don't come!" One day I was walking in a garden. There was a bandstand and musicians were playing some sort of music. The crowd was indifferent and passed by talking without paying the slightest attention.
Anastase saw, however, that there was not the slightest hope that his proposal would ever be entertained, and by his own sensations he knew that he had always expected this result. He felt no disappointment, and it seemed to him that he was in the same position in which he had been before he had spoken.
On the third day, nothing having occurred to increase our alarm, I determined to know the worst; so I got by stealth out of the house, and armed with a fresh bow, a good supply of arrows, a hatchet slung at my side, and my American knife with my mind made up for another conflict if necessary I crept stealthily along, with my eyes awake to the slightest motion, and my ears open to the slightest sound, till I approached the scene of my late unequal struggle.
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