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It did seem to me a sort of mockery, knowing my feelings as I did knowing that all my folly and suffering came from the very intensity of my passion that I should be reproached, by its object, with indifference! I forgot, that, as a cover for my suspicion, I had been striving with all the industry of art to put on the appearance of indifference.
To summarize the foregoing, up to the moment the signal for battle was made: While the fleets were striving for the weather gage, the wind had shifted to the southwest. The French having twelve vessels in line and the British thirteen, the gradual progress of the latter should bring their then van "the length of the enemy's rear," about the time the rear came abreast of his van.
I shall never see them more where I am going." He had himself removed to Vincennes, of which he was governor. There he continued to regulate all the affairs of state, striving to initiate the young king in the government.
"Then I will marry no one," said Fanny, striving hard to suppress her tears, and barely succeeding. "Good heavens!" exclaimed Kilcullen; "what an infatuation is this!" and then again he walked on silent a little way. "Have you told any one of this, Fanny? do they know of it at Grey Abbey?
When the child is thinking out things for himself the process is favorable to initiative; but when the teacher directs his every movement, thought, and impulse, she is repressing the very quality that makes for initiative and ultimate leadership. When the boy would do some things on his own, the teacher is striving to force him to travel in her groove.
She started and would have risen, but strength failed; for a moment her head leaned against his bosom, and a burst of tears relieved her. "Forgive me, Herbert," she said, striving at once for composure and voice. "Oh, weak as I am, do not repent your confidence.
No one could meet daily a hundred or more of these light-hearted, good-natured children without feeling drawn to them. No one could cross the thresholds of the cabins and not see the old and well-known problems of life and striving. More and more, therefore, the work met Miss Taylor's approval and she told Mrs. Grey so.
He gently touched on the causes and the authors of the recent disasters; striving to remove the fear of punishment for the past, and the hope of impunity for the future, and laboring, with more zeal than success, to unite all the members of his government in a firm league of affection and obedience.
Although he wished no evil to any person, he was yet never able to suppress a strange, perverse thrill of disappointment at this result that there should be the name of no one he knew in all those lists of the mangled. His food came and he ate, still striving the game of childhood had become unconscious habit with him now to make his meat and potatoes "come out even."
His potent and melancholy voice vibrates with the accumulated passion and striving and pain of those far-off generations, and sinks mysteriously into silence with the birth of a new and happier world. There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.
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