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"I wish I could feel as fully assured of that as you do," he returned honestly. "I would then have every temptation to meddle further taken away from me. Do you realize that my interest is very largely upon your account?" "Oh, no," laughing, "I couldn't believe that. I I have heard it whispered it might be because of the other girl." "The other girl!" in complete surprise at this swift return.
He read meaning in Julia's words now, a meaning which at the time they had not possessed. It was true that he was being tempted. It was true that there was such a thing in the world as temptation, a live thing to the strong as well as to the weak. "You could be great," she murmured. "You could be a statesman of whom we should all be proud.
They whistled and called, while, as if comprehending it all, the dog barked; but all was still, and in the hope of finding their hairy companion they now pressed steadily on, passing the tree laden still with a bright purple kind of berry, but there was no sign of Jack. "He'll return to savage life, safe," said the major. "It is too much of a temptation to throw in his way.
In vain, now that the temptation had departed, he sat and waited for its reappearance, half cursing himself for having broken the spell. But the chamber was dark and silent henceforth; and Philammon, wearied out, found himself soon wandering back to the Laura in quiet dreams, beneath the balmy, semi-tropic night.
She ventured to think him comparatively harmless for the hour: for she was not the woman to be hoodwinked by man's dark nature because she inclined to think well of a particular man; nor was she one to trust to any man subject to temptation. The wisdom of the Frenchwoman's fortieth year forbade it.
It consisted largely of men, each of whom had important duties to discharge, and was anxious to facilitate the discharge of duties by his colleagues. It was emphatically a body which meant business, and had no temptation to practise the art of 'not doing it.
Those cornflower-blue eyes, the turn of that creamy neck, her delicate curves she was a standing temptation to indiscretion! No! No! One must be sure of one's ground much surer! 'If I hold off, he thought, 'it will tantalise her. And he crossed over to Madame Lamotte, who was still in front of the Meissonier. "Yes, that's quite a good example of his later work.
But as a man He was subject to the desires and ambitions that perplex and "devil" the race. Jesus, knowing full well that He had in His possession the power to manifest the things with which He was tempted, was compelled to fight off the temptation to place Himself at the head of the race as its ruler as the King of the World.
The room had been cold the previous evening; plainly it was colder still now. The temptation was to turn back and go to sleep again, but he fought against it. Somehow he had a feeling that to disregard his grandfather's summons would be poor diplomacy. He set his teeth and, tossing back the bed clothes, jumped to the floor. Then he jumped again, for the floor was like ice.
She forgave the flirting, the light-heartedness, the love of amusement. Marian, she said to herself, was young and pretty. She, Miss Jack, had never known Marian's temptation. And so she resolved in her own mind that Marian should be made a good and happy woman; but always as the wife of Maurice Cumming.
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