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"I don't believe I shall close my eyes all night," said Amy with conviction. "I'm too horribly nervous." But three minutes later she was sound asleep! The sun had been up a good two hours before any one stirred in Wild Rose Lodge. Betty was the first to awake, and in fifteen minutes she had the rest of the sleepy-eyed and protesting girls up and nearly dressed.
To see that even the most passionate conviction may have been mistaken is to feel profound and disquieting doubt of all that human faith may compass; it is to seem to be helpless in the midst of baffling and sphinx-like perplexities.
The way that men learn to pray is by conviction of sin, and this is the way to make our "sweet babes" do so too. 'Sweet babes' is unworthy of Bunyan. There is little sweetness in a state of things so stern as he conceives.
His brain was impervious to such a conviction, because it was an innocent brain, and the idea would never have entered it that a woman of his mother's age, well over sixty, could be jealous in that way; but his instinct knew it. The last thing his mother said as he left the drawing-room was, "You have killed me. You have killed your own mother. And just because of those girls." And Mr.
He listened to all they had to say, and put questions and received answers, and certainly impressed the deputation with the conviction that if his Excellency the ex-Dictator of Gloria could not do anything very much for them, his heart at least was in their cause.
Pollyooly was silent, considering the matter. Then, summing it up, she said with conviction: "I don't think she's the kind of girl to trust at all." "I must have been blind blind," said Hilary Vance. Then came the sound of a taxicab drawing up before the house, and then a knocking at the front door. Pollyooly opened it, and found Mr. James on the threshold.
It was evident that this had become a kind of second nature in her now; but the thought occurred more than once to Van Berg that she had adopted this course at first to escape from herself and her own unhappy memories. Every day increased the conviction that sorrow was the black, heavy soil that produced this constant bloom of unselfish deeds.
"Such is the state of affairs at the present moment, and although my conviction is strong that the Sikh army will be deterred from acts of aggression, on account of the state of our military preparation, yet it is by no means impossible that we may be forced at any moment into war, and that operations, on a very extended scale, may be immediately necessary.
Preparations were already being made for attacking the national establishment of religion, and with all the fervor springing from conviction and a deep-seated enthusiasm, he came forward to take part in the controversy on Church and State, and as a defender of the Established or Episcopal Church of England.
It might be possible that he should escape, that seemed to be the general opinion; but then general opinion went on to declare that there was no reason for supposing that he had not married the woman merely because he said that he had not done so. Then gradually there fell upon poor Hester's mind a doubt, and, after that, almost a conviction. Not a doubt as to her husband's truth!
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