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The Council, fairly swamped with hundreds of outraged voters, had promptly modified the existing ordinance, and rejected unanimously the Mix amendment. And Mr. Mix, who had spent three hours in conference, and in battle, had emerged victorious. "Thank Heaven, we're safe!... And it only costs thirty-nine hundred. And I'll need the car all afternoon.
The French-Canadians were afraid that they would be swamped, and would be obliged to accept the laws and institutions of the majority. It is impossible to deny the force of these objections. In 1841 Lower Canada had been compelled to join a union in which the voting power of Upper Canada was arbitrarily increased.
The concrete, not the abstract, was paramount. All else was swamped by the fact that he was married. She could not believe that he had forgotten his marriage with his true identity. She could not believe that. Her heart was against her. Love to her was everything. She could not understand how one could ever forget. One might forget the world, but not that, not that.
"The storm's drifted down polar ice from the north and we're caught! We're caught!" he cried. He sprang to his feet as if to leap into that white waste of seething ice foam. 'Twas the frenzy of terror, which oft seizes men adrift on ice. In another moment he would have swamped us under the pitching crest of a mountain sea. But M. Radisson turned.
In some of his tragedies his classic learning was thought to be ostentatiously displayed, but this was not true of his comedy, and on the whole he was too strong to be swamped in pseudo-classicism. For his experience of men and of life was deep and varied.
But a greater secret swamped everything. Still he heard the people as he passed. "Sarve her right, though, whatever she gets she knew what he was." "Laving the child, too, the unfeeling creature." Then the sharp voices of the women fell on the dull consciousness of Pete like forks of lightning. "Whisht, woman! the husband himself," said somebody.
But a lady came in a woman of over forty, short and extremely plump, and still attractive with her small features and pretty smile swamped in fat. She was a blonde, with green, limpid eyes; and, fairly well dressed in a sober, nicely fitting mignonette gown, she looked at once pleasant, modest, and shrewd. "Ah! it's you, Stefana," said the old man, letting her kiss him.
The shark that had just attacked was the first to return; and coming on with the velocity of an arrow, it sprang clear above the surface, projecting its hideous jaws over the edge of the raft. For a moment the frail structure was in danger of being either capsized or swamped altogether, and then the fate of its occupants would undoubtedly have been to become "food for sharks."
"It's nothin'," she denied. "My shoes are all right. I I must've slept too long last night an' got sort of stiffened up." The freckles were swamped in a deep flood of color, but Jim repeated insistently: "Hold up your foot, Lou." Reluctantly she obeyed, disclosing a battered sole through the worn places of which something green showed. "I I stuffed it with leaves," she confessed, defensively.
"You needn't think we are going to be allowed to dig that hole without the toughest kind of a fight, Jimmie," he predicted. "The minute the news gets loose, we shall be swamped with 'interferences, relocations, law-suits, process servers and constables, to say nothing of the strong-hands and claim-jumpers.
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