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The first part of the road up to the church hill and down again to the swamp was to Black, as to the others, an unmixed joy, for he was fresh from his oats and eager to go, and his driver was as eager to let him have his will. But when the swamp was reached, and the buggy began to leap from log to log of the corduroy, Black began to chafe in impatience of the rein which commanded caution.
It took four years of war to teach them a different lesson. It was the old story of highland and lowland feud, of the white rose and the red rose, of roundhead and cavalier, of foemen worthy of each other's steel fighting to weld "discordant and belligerent elements" into a homogeneous whole. But war is not always an unmixed evil.
He would go and see Debbleby drop in upon the old horse-breeder without warning, and thus get his first revivified impression of the homeland unmixed with any of the disappointing changes which were doubtless awaiting him at the real journey's end.
"I have sent it back once, saying that Your Highness was not to be disturbed. He returned it, insisting " Markeld took the card, glanced at it, and read: "M. André Tellier, Paris. Agent du Service de Sûreté" Beneath this was a pencilled line "Concerning the question of the succession." The Prince stared at it a moment in some astonishment, not unmixed with irritation.
Ah! if the prefect hadn't thrown himself in front of Vincentello, we should have had one less to deal with." All this was said with the same calm air as that with which she had spoken, an instant previously, of her preparations for making the bruccio. Orso, quite dumfounded, gazed at his sister with an admiration not unmixed with alarm.
A great change had taken place in the manner of Desborough. Ferocious he still was, but it was a ferocity, wholly unmixed with the cunning of his former years, that he now exhibited. He had evidently suffered much, and there was a stamp of thought on the heavy countenance that Gerald had never remarked there before.
I have just had a long talk with her mother about it, and I am forced to the conclusion that Gwen's motives are not so unmixed as a girl's should be, to justify bystanders in allowing her to act upon them bystanders I mean who would have any right of interference.... I am afraid I am not very clear, but I shrink from saying what may seem unfeeling...."
Frankland the unmixed heroic is not to be looked for: if one finds zeal or heroism in the crude ore it ought to be enough; the refined articles have hardly been offered in the market since the lives of the saints were written and the old romances went out of fashion. Two results of Mrs.
A second harmless adventure of like kind had furnished her with a little amusement and some vexation, but never till now had her girlish heart been approached by any wooing which she could instinctively feel was that of real love. It touched her very much; for a time absorbing all distinct resolutions or intentions in a maze of pleasant, tender pity, and wonderment not unmixed with fear.
He had just come out of the woods and up to the snake fence of split rails which bounded the pasture. With some curiosity, not unmixed with scorn, he had sniffed at the fence, a phenomenon with which he was unfamiliar. But the voice of the bull had promptly absorbed his attention.
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