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Mila's words, almost imploring in their tone, calmed the infuriated inventor, who left the room. He reëntered in a moment, his head dripping, and he was grinning broadly. "Whenever I encounter a refractory pattern in my fireworks as you call them I am compelled to throw a bucket of water over it to quench its too ardent spirits. I have just done the same to my own head, dear Mr.
Yes, the people are always frank in their discourse; but they are so numerous that all our efforts could not restrain them. It was truly a cry from the heart an explosion of love, which reason could not restrain, and which escaped all bounds." "But what has happened, then?" interrupted Gaston, somewhat calmed. "What have they been doing these four hours that I have heard them?"
He called different buffalo by name; and designated the calves by descriptive terms, such as "Whiteface" and "Crosspatch." He almost forgot to eat, and kept Frank too busy to get anything into his own mouth. After supper he calmed down. "How about your other man Mr. Wallace, I think you said?" asked Frank. "We expected to meet him at Grand Canyon Station, and then at Flagstaff.
She beheld her children's future fleeing in that smoke, but was she not saving their father's life? was it not her first duty to make him happy? This last thought calmed her for a moment. She obtained the right to enter the laboratory and remain there; but even this melancholy satisfaction was soon renounced.
For, I must confess it, I had rehearsed some little forgiveness scene, in which I should magnanimously kiss her hand, and tell her that I should honor her above all women for her courage and her truth; and in which she would cry until her poor little heart was soothed and calmed; and that I should have the sweet consciousness of being beloved, however hopelessly, by such a brilliant, ardent soul.
When the eagerness of the multitude who crowded round had calmed down a little, the coffin was deposited in the church, behind the altar of the Cavalcanti."
She looked up at a round lake of deep translucent sky. Such depth of blue, such exquisite rare color! Carley imagined she could gaze through it to the infinite beyond. She closed her eyes and rested. Soon the laboring of heart and breath calmed to normal, so that she could not hear them. Then she lay perfectly motionless.
When Ishmael merely dropped down beside her and, asking if he might smoke, proceeded to light his pipe, she calmed a trifle a sick dread that she dismissed as impossible flashed through her; she peeped at him from her tilted hat brim, and saw his hands were trembling slightly as he struck the match.
However, I imitated her, and made no objections to those marks of affection allowed to friendship, which are supposed to have no tincture of love in them. At supper I thought I saw that Lebel was more delighted at having such a wife than at the prospect of enjoying her and satisfying a strong passion. That calmed me; I could not be jealous of a man like that.
He approached a great window, from whence he could see Castel Sant' Angelo and the innumerable tiny lights dotted over the lower city, while higher up, and more brilliant, those of the Quirinal shone against the horizon. Not the sight of illumined Rome, but the sight of a low and narrow bench, running along below the cippi and the sarcophagi, calmed his spirit.
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