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"Every one admits that." "Your Socialists don't." "My Socialists do. Yours mayn't; but I strongly suspect yours of being not Socialists, but ninepins, which you have constructed for your own amusement. I can't imagine any living creature who would bowl over quite so easily." He would have resented this had she not been a woman.
An attack which he had made on Spoletium had proved the inadequacy of the small Carthaginian army to carry a strongly fortified town. Had he followed the advice of Maherbal, he would in all likelihood have dashed his army to pieces against the walls of Rome.
My brother was beyond the aid of the physician: his wrecked life had reached a sudden term! I have now, dear Edward, completed the brief narrative of some of the facts attending the latter years of your father's life. The motive which has induced me to commit them to writing has been a double one. I am anxious to give effect as far as may be to the desire expressed most strongly to Mr.
Writing from South Africa on 5th June 1882, he says: "Both clergymen here preach the great secret, the indwelling, but not as strongly as I could wish. Their churches are full, while, where it is not preached, they are comparatively empty." It would indeed quite misrepresent Gordon's views to say that he ignored the work of the ministry as a body.
The mountain Albanians strongly resisted the Montenegrin advance, but Scutari had been disarmed by the International Control, and was easily taken. The Serbs also anticipated peace, and concentrated forces in such a position as also to be able to enter and occupy Albanian territory.
Von Bulow says: "The bass must be strongly marked throughout even when piano and brought out in imitation of the upper part." Singularly enough, his is the only edition in which the left hand arpeggios at the close, though in the final bar "both hands may do so." This is editorial quibbling.
Every man in the little assembly was listening with deep attention to the great scout who was a man of silence unless his advice was sought. When he ceased some urged the adoption of his recommendation to wait for the coming of Colonel Logan and his men. There were others, however, who were strongly in favour of advancing at once.
Vaguely frightened; sullen, with childish resentment at my superior. And over it all, my man's mentality made me angry at myself for such emotions; angry at the consciousness of my own inferiority, forced upon me now more strongly than ever anything or any one had made me feel it before. Tarrano was smiling gently. "... killed your father. I would not have had it so. Yet perhaps it was necessary.
"That you can do such a thing as this proves to me how strongly you feel about it. But it is a serious decision more serious, perhaps, than you realise. Things have gone so far. The mere inconvenience caused will be very great." "I know it. I have felt tempted to yield to that thought to let things slide, as they say.
Stevens sat musing at his desk for some time after the departure of his visitor; then, taking up one of the letters that had so strongly excited him, he read and re-read it; then crushing it in his hand, arose, stamped his feet, and exclaimed, "I'll have it! if I " here he stopped short, and, looking round, caught a view of his face in the glass; he sank back into the chair behind him, horrified at the lividness of his countenance.
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