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But there was even in his abasement a certain terrible patience that sent an icy misgiving to her heart. She did not dare to leave him so. It needed all the strength she could muster to approach him, but she compelled herself at last. She came to him. She stood before him. "Captain Monck!" she said. Her voice sounded small and frightened even in her own ears.
In their troubles they naturally called to mind a verse which the elder men among them declared to have been current long ago: "A Dorian war will come and a plague with it." Its result was the abasement of Athens and the elevation of Sparta to supreme power in Greece.
'Why, why am I so weak? she cried in utter abasement of soul, and knew not that in that weakness, or rather in the founts of character from which it sprang, lay the innermost safeguard of her life. Robert was very nearly reduced to despair by the scene with Catherine we have described.
In a few moments the quarters above resounded with the shrieks and groans of those condemned to the lash; for the wrath and indignation of Calavius, generally the mildest of masters, were spurred to vindictive bitterness by a consciousness of his late terror and abasement. "They were guilty of all crimes, and, worst of all, of the rankest ingratitude.
I have heard men talk glibly of the degradation of the negro, but there is a vast difference between abasement of condition and degradation of character. I was abased, but the men who trampled on me were the degraded ones." "But, Iola, you must not blame all for what a few have done." "A few have done? Did not the whole nation consent to our abasement?" asked Iola, bitterly.
He had a moment of boyish joy, scarcely mitigated by the reflexion that with this unexpected consecration of his hope too sudden and too violent; the turn taken was away from a good boy's book the "escape" was left on their hands. The boyish joy was there an instant, and Pemberton was almost scared at the rush of gratitude and affection that broke through his first abasement.
And while King knelt behind the mullah and the whole camp faced Mecca in forehead-in-the-dust abasement there came a strange procession down the midst not strange to the "Hills," where such sights are common, but strange to that camp and hour.
How it tickled my vanity, in spite of all my meditations and scruples, when they came from Raithu and offered me the office of elder; I felt more triumphant the first time I won with the quadriga, but I was scarcely more puffed up with pride then, than I was yesterday. How many who think to follow the Lord strive only to be exalted as He is; they keep well out of the way of His abasement.
Vronsky could not but feel this, and the parts were suddenly reversed. Vronsky felt his elevation and his own abasement, his truth and his own falsehood. He felt that the husband was magnanimous even in his sorrow, while he had been base and petty in his deceit. But this sense of his own humiliation before the man he had unjustly despised made up only a small part of his misery.
Arminius found among the other German chiefs many who sympathized with him in his indignation at their country's abasement, and many whom private wrongs had stung yet more deeply. There was little difficulty in collecting bold leaders for an attack on the oppressors, and little fear of the population not rising readily at those leaders' call.
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