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In the mean time, the inhabitants of the country were in a wretched situation, feeling the little dependence to be put on militia, who were slow in coming to their assistance, indifferent about their preservation, unwilling to continue, and regardless of every thing but of their own ease.
He did not seem to hear me, but tried the door, which I had already bolted, and then got into bed, yawning and shivering, for the room was cold. I turned down the light, and, opening the shutters, looked out upon the street, now deserted save by a solitary man who had just passed the house and whose slow footsteps were gradually growing less distinct.
"I tell you plainly," he smiled. "If we find... if we find her dear body and I can't help; but I've men on the watch all along the shores I'll give you up to your admiral for a pirate. You'll have a long slow agony of a trial; I know what English justice is. And a disgraceful felon's death."
Then, as they were slow in awakening, the cry was repeated more loudly: "Fire! Fire!" A conflagration is the universal contagion, the one excitement that never palls. Forth into the night, forgetful of his companion, forgetful of all save the interest of the moment, rushed O'Reilly.
Coventry was silent a moment, while a slow flush rose under his sun-tanned skin. "I think perhaps I deserved that," he admitted at last. His glance met and held hers. "Will you at any rate try to believe I had a good reason for doing what I did?" She hesitated. "But then why have you come now? What's happened to the 'good reason'?" "I've scrapped it," he said tersely.
"I did, I did the Lord gave me the feeling, as a punishment for my sins! but his mercy was not slow in lifting the veil; I looked into the book, Ishmael, and there I found the words of comfort." "Have you that book at hand, woman; it may happen to advise in such a dreary business."
The light glowed brightly in her face, as the slow minutes ebbed without a sound: she only saw his face in shadow, with the fitful gleam of intolerable meaning in his eyes. Her own quailed and fell. "Does it hurt you that I should even look at you?" he said, drawing back.
And it was not easy to fall from them, when Bedient believed in him so truly. And Miss Mallory lured back Bedient's strength. Music came forth new and of big import to his consciousness.... He had tried the soul-rousing heimweh from the slow movement of Dvorák's New World Symphony, when Miss Mallory, looking over the rolls, discovered the Andante of Beethoven's Fifth.
The flank envelopment has often a greater success than the frontal attack. This leads us to dwell on another phase of the Ruthenian problem. In the history of the human race there is nothing more complicated than ethnic assimilation. It is a slow, delicate and, in many cases, very dangerous process.
It is highly significant of the nature of the slow spread of a "phonetic law" that there is local vacillation at present in several words. One hears roof, soot, and hoop, for instance, both with the "long" vowel of boot and the "short" of foot.
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