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Each one feels that he is a factor in the church, not an overlooked cipher, and this does him good. It stimulates him to do something. In training each one to give, however little they may be able, there is developed in them a right spirit and a very important principle. A business meeting was held every three months. At these the deacons made their reports, and squared accounts with the preacher.
"But, my dear Blake," she said, after a moment, "she is not for you." "What do you mean?" Grange's jaw suddenly set itself. He squared his great shoulders as if instinctively bracing himself to meet opposition. "I mean" Daisy spoke very quietly and emphatically "I mean, Blake, that she is Nick's property. She belonged to Nick before ever you thought of wanting her.
He shifted and evaded the issue. Jason squared himself and demanded: "Did you kill those men?" "I did not," was the sharp answer. The son held his shifting eye by the glare of the camp fire. "Did you have anything to do with the killing of those men?" To his own he would not lie longer. It wasn't necessary. His reply was quick and unequivocal. "I did not do it. But I approved it."
Crisparkle could hardly see anything else of it for a large outside passenger seated on the box, with his elbows squared, and his hands on his knees, compressing the driver into a most uncomfortably small compass, and glowering about him with a strongly-marked face. 'Is this Cloisterham? demanded the passenger, in a tremendous voice.
These apparently little valleys were in reality the matter of an hour's journey to cross; these rounded hills, to all seeming only two good golf strokes from bottom to top, were matters of serious climbing; these compact, squared groves of oaklike trees were actually great forests of giants in which one could lose one's self for days, in which roamed herds of elephant and buffalo.
At the third glass his eyes got brighter, and he began to talk, the little family circle regarding with eager interest this visitor from distant parts, as he squared his broad shoulders in the chair and spoke of wild scenes and doughty deeds; of wars and plagues and strange peoples. "Twenty-one years of it," said Mr. White, nodding at his wife and son.
And I want to know," she continued, suddenly stopping her rocking and tilting the rockers impertinently behind her, as, with her elbows squared on the chair arms, she tilted her own face defiantly up into Mrs. Horncastle's, "how a woman in your position who doesn't live with her husband dares to talk to ME!" There was a lull before the storm. Mrs.
However, Blaney knew that dissimulation would profit him nothing, for to keep the changed vote a secret would be impossible; so he squared himself for a row. Jim tied his horses to a sapling and sat beside him, remarking, "I want to have a talk with you." "Haven't got much time," replied Blaney, making a show of looking at his watch. Jim smiled meaningly. "You've got all the time I need.
Richard made some slight exclamation, and she rolled those vast eyes towards him, and fixed him with what might have been an accusing stare. At first he covered his mouth with his hand and looked at her under his lids as if the accusation were just, and then he remembered it was not, and squared his shoulders, and went to the other side of the bed and knelt down.
Now it was filled with an afternoon glow, like powdered gold, and the querulously sweet piping of an early robin. He dipped his face and hands in cooling water and, at the table, with squared elbows, addressed himself to a set task.
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