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Evidently he was less familiar with the opinions of The Rationalist than he had thought. "I really must protest," exclaimed Mr. Simson. "To whatever wrong uses His words may have been twisted, Christ Himself I regard as divine, and entitled to be spoken of with reverence. His whole life, His sufferings " But the old fanatic's vigour had not yet exhausted itself. "His sufferings!" he interrupted.
"He did me that honour," said Mr. Randolph; "but I think primarily his visit was to Daisy." "Who is Mr. Dinwiddie?" said Mrs. Gary, seeing a contraction in her sister's brow. "It's a Virginian name." "He is a fanatic," said Mrs. Randolph. "I don't know what else he is." "Let us see the fanatic's spoon," said Gary McFarlane. "Egyptian, is it, Daisy? Curious, upon my word!" "Beautiful!" said Capt.
Surely something of the fanatic's temperament there must have been in me; for now that I had embraced a cause, I served it with all the fanaticism with which on Monte Orsaro I sought to be worthy of the course I had taken then.
"Coffee's ready," he said sardonically. "Come out and join us." There was a long pause. Calhoun rapped again. "You've a seat at the captain's table," he said more sardonically still. "It's not polite to keep me waiting!" He listened, alert for a rush which would be a fanatic's desperate attempt to do murder despite premature discovery. He was prepared to shoot quite ruthlessly.
Charles felt the strange spell of the fanatic's presence, and he merely bowed his head as a signal for him to proceed. Mr. "Mr.
Suppose Kate to be right suppose the girl has awakened to a full realization of her danger? Suppose that her cry for succor is real, can I, can any man who hears it, refuse to heed? Would I ever sleep in peace again?" He went further, he admitted that her beauty was the deciding element. "She is too lovely to be left to a fanatic's designs.
Torquemada, the zealous priest, the man of God, could never quite repress the promptings of his blood. He had all the fanatic's appreciation of violent methods; all the Southerner's fondness for a miscreant, and contempt for a simpleton. A mere fool what's the use of him on earth?
The old fanatic's eyes passed from face to face. There was almost the suggestion of a smile about the savage mouth. "A strange supper-party," he said. "Cyril the Apostate; and Julius who strove against the High Priests and the Pharisees; and Inez a dancer before the people; and Joanna a daughter of the rulers, gathered together in the house of one Mary a servant of the Lord."
France is as strong as one man's life can make her; but what if that man should run against some fanatic's idea which had taken shape in a bullet-mould, or receive a sudden call from that pale visitor who heeds no challenge from the guards at the gate of the Tuileries, and stalks unannounced through antechambers and halls of audience?
He was a man personally upright and kindly, of only moderate interest and capacity for the ordinary practical affairs of life, given to brooding on public events and ideal causes, and viewing them with a fanatic's narrowness and a fanatic's absorption. He was a belated Puritan, and his natural place would have been with Cromwell's Ironsides.
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