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But he answered soberly and half-mournfully that it expressed his full conviction, and he would face defeat rather than suppress it. In the immediate result, it injured his cause; a general comment of Republicans, through the campaign, says Herndon, was "Damn that fool speech!" Douglas won the Legislature and the senatorship, though Lincoln won the popular majority.
Gavin knocked at the door of the surgery, but entered without waiting for a response. McQueen was no longer stamping through the room, red and furious. He had even laid aside his pipe. He was sitting back in his chair, looking half-mournfully, half- contemptuously, at something in his palm.
No dark furrows of hesitation, cowardice, cunning, meanness or weakness marred the expressive dignity and openness of the Cardinal's countenance, the very poise of his straight spare figure and the manner in which he moved, silently asserted that inward grace of spirit without which there is no true grace of body, and as he paused in his slow pacing to and fro to gaze half-wistfully, half-mournfully upon the almost ghastly artistic achievement of "Le Mourant" he sighed, and his lips moved as if in prayer.
"Yes," said Emilia, half-mournfully, "then 'myself' doesn't sit on my shoulders: I don't even care what I am." "That is what Art does for you." "Only by fits and starts now. Once I never thought of myself." There was a knock at the street-door, and she changed countenance. Presently there came a gentle tap at their own door. "It is that woman," said Emilia. "I fancy it must be Lady Charlotte.
"Yes," said Emilia, half-mournfully, "then 'myself' doesn't sit on my shoulders: I don't even care what I am." "That is what Art does for you." "Only by fits and starts now. Once I never thought of myself." There was a knock at the street-door, and she changed countenance. Presently there came a gentle tap at their own door. "It is that woman," said Emilia. "I fancy it must be Lady Charlotte.
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