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"This comes," he would say, "of placing the service of God above that of my earthly masters." It kept him in exile on this island the deadlock in the matter of that Second Revelation. The expiatory period was not yet over, though Nepenthe, on the whole, would have been glad to see the last of him particularly Signor Malipizzo.
The British party was split into two sections, and one section, the Responsibles, made public declarations of their intention to bring about a constitutional deadlock by obstruction and refusing supplies, and all the other apparatus of Parliamentary discontent.
At any rate, the fishermen regarded him approvingly as the one man who could if human powers were equal to it extricate them from the present deadlock. "You do not happen, my friend, to be in a position to inform us whether any pardon the expression any corpses are now lying on the rocks to bear witness to this sad catastrophe?" Again the stranger made a gesture of perplexity. "Dear, dear!
Thorold, Thackeray, and Sitwell in one evening. Who can say that British colonels have not given their men a lead? The army was now at a deadlock. Railway Hill barred the way, and if Hart's men could not carry it by assault it was hard to say who could.
The town might fall; the garrison might be slaughtered; their envoy But what possibilities they were prepared to face as regards him will not be known until all of this and the next generation are buried and forgotten. The deadlock was complete. To some men the Foreign Office might have suggested lines of retreat, covered by the highest official praise, and leading to preferment and reward.
That minister was much surprised. He had been quietly biding his time, expecting to be invoked when the English and the Americans should find themselves stopped by that deadlock which he had done his best to bring about by his secret intimations to England.
One man dropped and the others dashed for the protection of the companionway. Before reaching there, however, the first German officer gave the command to scatter and several of the Germans posted themselves behind whatever shelter offered on deck. The battle had reached a deadlock.
"What do we hear from Petersburg?" he asked. "Is the deadlock there broken?" "Not yet, sir," replied the sergeant. "The winter being so very severe the troops are not able to do much. General Lee still holds his lines." "I suppose that General Grant doesn't care to risk another Cold Harbor, but what has been done here in the Valley of Virginia should enable him to turn Lee's flank in the spring."
The latter half of the twelfth century saw this unhappy deadlock between history and reason, and made strenuous efforts to compose the strife.
"I say it is no concern of yours at all." They had come to a deadlock. He faced her, with the dark, haughty, imperious look which she knew so well upon his fine features; she stood silent, angry too, and almost as imperious. But, womanlike, she yielded first. "You asked me once to be your friend, Cousin Wyvis. I want to be yours and Margaret's too. Won't you let me see what you mean?"
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