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De la Torre fought at the head of his men until men and savages, dead and living, were an indivisible mass, then thrust back and front, himself unhurt. The only silent clear-brained man among them, he could reason as he assaulted and defended, and he knew that the Spaniards had little chance of victory and he less of looking again upon the treasures of Mexico.
If a policeman had chanced to be standing there the fugitive would have known that the game was up, but the only wayfarers in that part of the thoroughfare were some street cleaners. Now that he saw a glimmer of light where hitherto all was darkness, he was absolutely clear-brained and cool in manner. "Wait five minutes," he said. "I sha'n't detain you longer."
Of course I was only too glad to go; and it was there in the cheery sick-room, as I sat on a cushion at the feet of this lovely, large-souled, clear-brained woman, that she told me how ever and anon in the years gone by, as she was writing her stories for bread and shelter, her pen would run off into facts and philosophies of woman's servitude that she knew would ruin her book with the publishers, but which, for her own satisfaction, she had carefully treasured, chapter by chapter, as her heart had thus overflowed.
He looked at her curiously, as though they were meeting for the first time. Then, as she talked of her studies, his embarrassment deepened, for he found himself foundering hopelessly before this clear-eyed, clear-brained backwoods girl. "Come," said Sammy at last. "Let us go for a walk."
But the young men oughtn't have the temptation thrust in their way. They think it looks smart and manly; and they make themselves so silly that I'm like a lump of ice to some of them. I like clear-brained people." So upstairs they had music and recitations.
Williams met her at the step. "It's all right, sis. Mart's still here and waiting for you." Instantly, at sight of his ugly, familiar, friendly face, she became alert, clear-brained. "How is he?" "Pretty bad." "What's it all about? How did it happen?" "I'll clear that up as we go," he replied, and led the way to a carriage. Once inside, she turned her keen gaze upon him. "Now go ahead straight."
And I know a man who'll marry you for your money and love you as well or I'll know the reason why." There was something strangely sympathetic between these two widely-contrasted beings the young, clear-brained, high-spirited girl and the old misanthrope. She obeyed him as though mesmerized, and, flinging down her muff, took off her gloves, and seated herself at the writing-table.
"You wouldn't think so if you saw my house in Hampstead," she said, a vision of that austere and hard-seated dwelling presenting itself to her mind, with nothing soft in it except the shunned and neglected Du Barri sofa. No wonder, she thought, for a moment clear-brained, that Frederick avoided it. There was nothing cosy about his family.
The proclamation of President Jackson, it will be remembered, proved the death-blow, and the nullification excitement soon thereafter subsided. Mr. Trumbull told me that he distinctly recalled John C. Calhoun, his commanding presence and splendid argument, as he addressed the large assemblage. As a clear-brained logician whose statement alone was almost unanswerable argument he thought Mr.
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