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Updated: June 22, 2025
Thirty, the age of delicate response, of subtle tasting, divorced equally from the ignorant impetuosity of youth and the desperate clutchings of middle age. How he disliked young girls with their sunburn, their manly strides, their meaningless giggles, their eternal nicknames! And, over their heads, a warning and a trade mark, that sword of Damocles marriage. Maurice was feeling a little happier.
Durut was the convict; the Damocles' sword hung over Prudence Servien's head. But for these details, many critics would have thought Europe's attachment somewhat grotesque. And no one could have understood the startling announcement that Carlos had ready. "Yes, my girl, you can go back to Valenciennes. Here, read this."
Ever since the visit of the so-called Rajah she had lived as Damocles lived, with the sword of destiny the avenging sword hanging over her by the finest hair. Every time she heard carriage wheels in the drive every time the hall-door bell rang a little louder than usual, her heart seemed to stop beating and her whole being to hang suspended on a thread.
He thought of that, later. On the morrow of that incredible day, Damocles de Warrenne sprang from his bed at sunrise and sought the dew-washed garden below the big south terrace. The world contained no happier man. Sunrise in a glorious English summer and a grand old English garden, on the day after the Day of Days.
Action of any kind is tonic, and when a man can fight danger with his muscles or his brain, he is roused and excited by the struggle; but when he can do nothing except wait, watch the suspended sword of Damocles, and wonder how soon the stroke will come, he must have strong nerves long to endure the strain.
Then like the sword of Damocles the bessemer voice of Pepperill severed the general atmosphere of amiability: "Where did you get that dog?" Mr. Appleboy looked round helplessly, distress pictured in every feature. "My wife's aunt lent it to us." "How did she come to lend it to you?" "Bashemath wrote and asked for it." "Oh! Did you know anything about the dog before you sent for it?"
"They both know it now well enough, curse 'em," said the poet. "Yes; your secrets are like your situations you can't keep 'em long. My poor poet, I pity you betwixt the devil and the deep sea." "They're a pair of harpies, each holding over me the Damocles sword of an arrest for bigamy. Neither loves me." "I should think they would come in very useful to you.
"The sword of Damocles must henceforth be brandished over the entire surface." "The representatives sent on mission are required to conform strictly to the acts of the Committee of Public Safety. Moniteur, XVIII., 291. These two pivots of revolutionary rule outside the Committee were the representatives of the people on missions and the national agents controlling the district committees.
Sergeant Havlan soon found that he had little need to begin at the beginning with Damocles de Warrenne in the matter of riding, fencing or boxing, and was unreasonably annoyed thereat. In time, it became the high ambition and deep desire of Dam to overcome Sergeant Havlan's son in battle with the gloves.
Our love will be one of the incidents of our life. Meanwhile, I may go with you, that is all that I say I sing it. I may go with you, not to happiness, but to necessity! And now that cursed German! It hangs over my head like a sword of Damocles I have heard of though I don't know why it was held over his head! You think our love was settling into the cooing state!
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