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I calmed myself by saying that this strong impression was due to novelty, and by hoping that I should soon be disenchanted. "She will have no charm," said I, "when I have once possessed her, and that will not be long in coming." Perhaps the reader will think that I was too presumptuous, but why should I suppose that there would be any difficulty?
"Out here where the full light can fall on it that's right! Now tell me about yourself. How long have you been like this?" The man dragged himself to his feet. "Ever since I lost my job." The question had calmed him. There was a note of hope in it. "What work did you do?" "I'm a plumber's helper." "Work stopped?" "No, a strike I wouldn't quit, and they fired me." "What happened then?"
So she ended, in a voice numbed and tuneless. Kaid trembled with rage, and he cried in a loud voice: "Bring Achmet forth." As the slave sped upon the errand, David laid a hand on Kaid's arm, and whispered to him earnestly. Kaid's savage frown cleared away, and his rage calmed down; but an inflexible look came into his face, a look which petrified the ruined Achmet as he salaamed before him.
I think I know what to read and what not to read," said Nekhludoff, turning pale, and, feeling that he could not control himself, became silent and began to drink his tea. "Well, how are the children?" Nekhludoff asked his sister, having calmed down. Thus the unpleasant conversation was changed. Natalie became calm and talked about her children.
They gave him time to look before and after they relieved the painful tension of his overwrought mind they calmed him with the necessity for quiet thought and deep rest after the anguish and turmoil of the bygone months. When he awoke to consciousness, Eva was sitting by his bedside in the sick-room.
The Jean Guiton passed over it, rolling a little from habit, dividing the smooth, dark blue water and leaving behind a few waves, a little splashing, a slight swell, which soon calmed down. "I began to talk to the captain, a little man with small feet, as round as his boat and rolling in the same manner. I wanted some details of the disaster on which I was to draw up a report.
Then they calmed down and we went the rounds of the right trenches. In those held by the Light Horse Brigade under Colonel G. de L. Ryrie, encountered Lieutenant Elliot, last seen a year ago at Duntroon. After that saw the lines of Colonel Smith's Brigade, where Major Browne, R.A., showed me a fearful sort of bomb he had just patented.
"I hope you are not sulky," she rejoined; "we don't like sulky boys here; why don't you eat?" she repeated. The sharp, cold tones of her voice struck a chill into the child's heart, and his lip quivered as he stammered something farther about not being hungry; and he hurried away into the garden, where he calmed his feelings and allayed his home-sickness by a hearty burst of tears.
After a time this spectacular excitement the noisy monotony of which began to weary me calmed down a little; gods, demigods, kings, men and spirits got up, and followed by all the other maskers, directed themselves toward the temple door, whence issued at once, meeting them, a lot of men admirably disguised as skeletons.
Their spirits thus a little calmed, and the affright abated, they now began to repair into the suburbs about the city, where such as had friends or opportunity got shelter for the present, to which his majesty's proclamation also invited them. Many admirers of Sir Isaac Newton have asserted that his was the most gigantic intellect ever bestowed on man.
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