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He was sure that Jimmy had merely got married out of pique, and that he had repented as quickly as one generally does repent in such cases. Sangster walked back to his rooms; he felt very depressed. He was fond of Jimmy though he did not approve of him; he racked his brains to know what to do for the best.
At the crisis of their destiny they look back upon their better days with intellectual remorse. In the execution of their bloodiest schemes they groan beneath the chains of guilt they wear, and quake before the phantoms of their haunted brains.
I thought of my return to my own country, my first sight of the grey shores of Fife, my visit to Kirkcaple, my meeting with my mother. I was a rich man now who could choose his career, and my mother need never again want for comfort. My money seemed pleasant to me, for if men won theirs by brains or industry, I had won mine by sterner methods, for I had staked against it my life.
We have hospitable hands, keen brains, warm hearts at your service. We only ask to give of our best to you. But be a success! Be a success!" And the voice grew so strong that at last it seemed almost stern, almost fierce in her ears. At last it seemed as if peril would attend upon non-compliance with its demand.
In all well-organized brains, the predominating idea and there always is one is sure to be the last thought before sleeping, and the first upon waking in the morning. Andrea had scarcely opened his eyes when his predominating idea presented itself, and whispered in his ear that he had slept too long. He jumped out of bed and ran to the window. A gendarme was crossing the court.
The lawyer with initiative and brains became an indispensable factor," etc., etc. The biography might have gone on to relate my association with and important services to Adolf Scherer in connection with his constructive dream.
But Black George stood above me, panting, and, as his eyes met mine, he laughed a strange-sounding, broken laugh, and whirled up his cudgel to beat out my brains even as the Pedler had foretold to-morrow the blackbird would sing upon my motionless breast, and, looking into Black George's eyes I smiled. "Get up!" he panted, and lowered the cudgel. "Get up or, by God I'll do for 'ee!"
Gibbon had evidently racked his brains to think of the most audacious act of which a woman could be capable, and that quaintly proved in his case to be the enchantment of a Lord Chancellor! If, at the present moment, there is a lady possessed of charms equal to those of Elizabeth Duchess of Devonshire, let us hope that the precincts of both the Lords and the Commons Houses are well guarded!
It's all heart he is, and wouldn't hurt a fly, except from want of thought. But, stay now, I'm thinking of them soldiers that is in town. Enter OWEN, dancing and singing, "Success to my brains, and success to my tongue! Success to myself, that never was wrong!" Widow. What is it? What ails the boy? Are ye mad, Owen? Owen. And it's joy I give you, and joy you'll give me, mother darling.
Now, I didn't like that at all, and I turned round to tell them to go in front of me; I was just in time to save myself from getting a spear through my back as it was, it whizzed through the side of my coat, and in another second the nigger who threw it had a charge of shot through his brains. Then, slewing round, I was just able to drop the guide, who was running off with the rifle.
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