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He bowed and turned to walk from the room. He was full of a wild exultation over his success, and he reasoned quickly with himself that even if his resignation were accepted, he retired in good order. He had, too, a half-defined feeling that in thus tempting fate still further, he made a sort of expiatory offering for his actual guilt.
Who can describe the' strange, half-defined thoughts which often brought tears to the young girl's eyes as she watched them thus! It was no jealousy of Sara's deserting her for Charles, still less was it envy; but it was a vague longing a desiring of love for love's own sake. Not as regarded any individual object, for Olive had never seen any one in whom she felt or fancied the slightest interest.
"And yet," said Tom slowly, "it would be strange if it was only a coincidence the two tire marks being the same the night Mr. Nestor disappeared and now." And so they kept on, hoping. The half-defined path through the wood-lot led them in a series of turns and twists, and it extended through a dense patch of woods, growing thickly, where it was so dark that it seemed as if night had fallen.
In the lives of men, the terror of one man, as each despot lost power, began to give way to the fear of half-defined institutions, of the distant government in Constantinople and of the Church as a secular power, till the time came when the title of Emperor raised a smile, whereas the name of the Pope of the 'Father-Bishop' was spoken with reverence by Christians and with respect even by unbelievers.
Pearl and Hugh had gathered fir branches, even some young trees, and had placed them about the walls, and in the warmth their aromatic, delicious odor permeated and pervaded the cabin, and one discerning those half-defined branches might easily imagine that the walls stretched away into the dim forest. Pearl lay back in an easy chair, her narrow, half-closed eyes on the leaping flames.
One little brown hand grasped and crushed the edge of her starched apron; her black brows were drawn in a straight line of indignation beneath which her splendid eyes flashed; her rounded bosom, half-defined by the loose, soft blue of her simple gown, rose and fell rapidly. "And you're going to do it?" she threw across at him. Bob, bewildered, stared at her.
James, made it all straight with them, she could not go around to all the girls and explain what to them were half-defined suspicions.
But the men, dropping their ox yokes and water pails, crowded forward, laughing deep-mouthed greetings from the bush of their beards, and extending hands as hard as the road they had traveled. The women were cooking. Like goddesses of the waste places they stood around the fires, a line of half-defined shapes.
And now, with his newborn love for Constance filling his heart and mind, had come the overwhelming failure of his beloved horse, and the death of his jockey; the last causing him more pain than the light-hearted companions around him would have believed possible. Neither had the half-defined charge made against Jasper escaped his notice, though he had disdained to make any mention of it.
An intolerable weight crushed her heart, a half-defined, horrible dread, and she asked, falteringly "Are you willing to die? Is your soul at peace with God? Have you any fear of Eternity?" "None, my child, none." "Would you like to have Mr. Bailey come and pray for you?" "I want no one now but you." A long silence ensued, broken only by the heavily drawn breath of the sufferer.
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