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It will give me courage in the future when I am fighting alone." "What are you going to do?" "I? I am going to appear before the public," with assumed lightness; "I and my violin." He struck his hands together. "The stage?" horrified. "I must live," calmly. "But a servant to public caprice? It ought not to be!
I should not have the courage to mention this to any one but you. It is the same with all these new countries and wonderful sights. They are very beautiful, and they astonish me, but I am not collected enough not familiar enough with myself, if you can quite understand what I mean to have all the pleasure in them that I might have. What I knew before them, blends with them, too, so curiously.
Light troops, eager for a skirmish, and, in the usual fashion of those days, prompted only by that personal courage which led them on to danger, had already come to blows, rushing down into the plain as though it were an amphitheatre where they might make a fine display of arms.
Dare-not-lie, It is true, they neither have the pilgrim's need, nor the pilgrim's courage; they go not uprightly, but all awry with their feet; one shoe goes inward, another outward, and their hosen out behind; there a rag, and there a rent, to the disparagement of their Lord. PENITENT. These things, said Mr.
But the girls remembered a governess they had once witnessed whose hair was brief as any boy's, so they put a large hat, with a very tight elastic behind, on to Oswald's head, just as it was, and then with a tickly, pussyish, featherish thing round his neck, hanging wobblily down in long ends, he looked more young-lady-like than he will ever feel. Some courage was needed for the start next day.
They assured me that I was very modestly dressed. As my husband liked my dress there could be nothing amiss in it. My inward Director taught me quite the contrary. I had not courage enough to follow Him, and to dress myself differently from others, at my age. My vanity furnished me with pretences seemingly just for following fashions.
Arguments on the subject are naught. It is waste of time to read them; unsupported by fact, they are one and all cowardly dreams, a horrible hypocritical clutching at that which their writers have not the courage to forgo. LECTOR. Yet may not a dream be of service to reality, my friend?
I thought that all she had to do was to look in my face and she would know that I had broken my promise, and I was ashamed. She came up later and asked me what was the matter, and I said I had a headache. If I had had the courage to tell her then, things might have been different! She brought me a cup of tea and bade me good-night. The next night the Devil steered me into the same saloon.
"He is dead," she would say apathetically, "and I wish I were dead, too. I think I shall die soon, if I have to live here." Then Prout, who had grown to love her, one day plucked up courage to tell her so, and asked her to be his wife. "Yes," she said simply, "I will be your wife. You are always kind to me," and for the first time she put her face up to his.
We do not deal with the magnificent courage of Moses, his single- handed arresting of the wild rebellion, and the severe punishment by which he trampled out the fire. But we must keep his severity in mind if we would rightly judge his self-sacrificing devotion, and his self-sacrificing devotion if we would rightly judge his severity.
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