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Their union, their contract, would not be the floundering neediness of two minds who feared standing alone to face mortality in one's thoughts nor would it be like American soldiers guarding Iraqi oil pipelines the jealous sentinels over the source of a dopamine rush, that lover who gave to many their only defining component of themselves.
Ban, then, such baleful thoughts, Beowulf dearest, best of men, and the better part choose, profit eternal; and temper thy pride, warrior famous!
"Let me conjure you," he wrote, "if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself, or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind, and never communicate, as from yourself or any one else, a sentiment of like nature." It was perhaps the first time in the history of the world that men had witnessed the like.
She said one day: "Is it because I read your manuscript and told the priest, that you would not come to my room, or is it because you are tired of me?" "I cannot tell you; and, really, this conversation is very painful. I am engaged upon my work, and I have no thoughts for anything but it."
He was so pensive that evening that his father asked him at supper whether he had not had a good day; which diverted his thoughts from Mistress Corbet, and led him away from sentiment on a stream of his own talk with long backwaters of description of this and that stoop, and of exactly the points in which he thought the Maxwells' falconer had failed in the training of Hubert's Jane.
"I wonder " he began in his thoughts, and added: "Some other time, perhaps. No; surely. I always knew her better than she knew herself." He was frankly happy, felt himself uplifted, freshened in spirit.
Just about the same time as Norah Wylie was weeping in her room, her heart torn asunder with hopes and fears, her husband was again pacing the deck of the Minerva. They had sailed from Malta the previous day, but owing to fogs, which had checked their progress, were hardly out of sight of land. Captain Wylie's thoughts as he passed up and down were evidently of a serious nature.
But Davie did not know her thoughts, and he answered the words a little scornfully: "Of course it is grandfather that we all think of. Who thinks of Jacob, or what may happen to him? And where is your faith, Katie lass?
I have a very wicked heart, and often my thoughts and feelings are all wrong, and Jesus knows all about it, but it does not keep Him from loving me, for you know it was sinners He died to save. Ah! papa, how good and kind He was! Who could help loving Him?
Now she was no longer under obligations to him. "Yes," she said to herself, "we are quits, fairly quits!" Now also, she reproached herself no longer for the long hours during which her thoughts, escaping from the control of her will, had turned to the man of her early choice. Poor fellow! She had been his evil star.
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