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Kate and Engleton followed. Cecil carefully closed the door behind them. "You see," he remarked, "we are reconciled to our defeat. Let us sit down for a moment and talk." "Open the window and give me some brandy," Engleton said. Kate felt him suddenly grow heavy upon her arm. "Bring a chair quick," she ordered. "He is going to faint." She bent over him, alarmed at the sudden change in his face.
Of the unorthodox books and essays, which influenced the young and alarmed believers, in these exciting years, most were the works of men who may be most fairly described by the comprehensive term agnostics a name which had been recently invented by Professor Huxley. The agnostic holds that there are limits to human reason, and that theology lies outside those limits.
To complete the misfortunes of this miserable day, my wife, who suspected the design with which I left the fortress, had ordered her palanquin to follow me, and was alarmed and almost made prisoner by another troop of these plunderers.
This was not an unimportant discovery, but it brought him very little nearer to a solution of the chief problem which engaged his mind. Assuming that Cohen had opened one of the cases and had alarmed old Huang Chow, what steps had the latter taken to deal with the intruder which had resulted in so ghastly a death? And how had he disposed of the body?
This first meeting had been followed by a call at the Rossmore residence, and the acquaintance had kept up until Jefferson, for the first time since he came to manhood, was surprised and somewhat alarmed at finding himself strangely and unduly interested in a person of the opposite sex.
The story that Ruth was "engaged" to a young gentleman of fortune in Fallkill came with the other news, and helped to give point to the little satirical remarks that went round about Ruth's desire to be a doctor! Margaret Bolton was too wise to be either surprised or alarmed by these rumors.
Now really alarmed for the safety of her charge, Bo-Peep hurried into the valley and up the farther hill-side. Panting and tired she reached the summit, and, pausing breathlessly, gazed below her. Quietly feeding upon the rich grass was her truant flock, looking as peaceful and innocent as if it had never strayed away from its gentle shepherdess.
In a few weeks he was able to compare his wife with other women, to look at pictures, to understand what beauty was and what ugliness was and from that time they have lived together as happy a married couple as any in the kingdom." I was not quite sure which way this last example pointed. It alarmed me when I thought of Lucilla. I came to a standstill again. "How did Mr.
Poor Aunt Maria, in her regular daily visit she dared venture no more to the sick-room door, would sometimes say hesitatingly, "My dear, how well you look still? You are sure you are not breaking down?" And Christian, grateful for the only kindly woman's face she ever saw near her, would respond with a smile sometimes with a kiss, which always alarmed Aunt Maria exceedingly.
If you hear her shrieking Suicidio! invoking Agamemnon, or appealing to the Casta Diva among the kettles and pots be not alarmed.... For the love you bear of good food, man, do not discourage your wife's ambition. The more she loves to sing, the better she will cook!" July 17, 1917. An Interrupted Conversation "We can never depend upon any right adjustment of emotion to circumstance."
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